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SpaceX Starlink satellites to beam internet to airplanes for in-flight wifi using lasers
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:33 am
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:33 am
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The team behind SpaceX’s growing satellite internet network Starlink is in talks with “several” airlines to beam internet to their airplanes, the project’s vice president said during a conference panel on Wednesday. Expanding Starlink from rural homes and onto airlines is an expected move for Elon Musk’s space company as it races to open the broadband network commercially later this year.
“We’re in talks with several of the airlines,” Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX’s VP of Starlink and commercial sales, told a panel at the Connected Aviation Intelligence Summit on Wednesday. “We have our own aviation product in development… we’ve already done some demonstrations to date, and looking to get that product finalized to be put on aircraft in the very near future.”
Since 2018, SpaceX has launched nearly 1,800 Starlink satellites out of the roughly 4,400 it needs to provide global coverage of broadband internet, primarily for rural homes where fiber connections aren’t available. The company is in the midst of a Starlink beta phase that promises up to 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload speeds, with tens of thousands of users so far. Most are paying $99 per month for internet under that beta, using a $499 bundle of a self-aligning Starlink dish and Wi-Fi router.
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Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:34 am to rickgrimes
Spacex moving the country forward.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:35 am to rickgrimes
Cox and Comcast on suicide watch.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:39 am to rickgrimes
Hopefully the can miniaturize or eliminate the need for a dish because until that happens the use cases for Starlink are pretty much limited to rural broadband and aviation.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:43 am to rickgrimes
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100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload speeds
By satellite. frickers at ATT Uverse told me just yesterday that my current 7Mbps down and 0.95Mbps up is "within account specifications" and they aren't going to send out a tech to find out why it is so slow. That is dial up speeds.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:43 am to rickgrimes
I cant wait for my Starlink Internet to come in for my house.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:44 am to dbeck
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Cox and Comcast on suicide watch.
Good. Rat bastards.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 12:01 pm to lsuhunt555
Same here. I ordered February 20th. McKinney, TX area.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 12:11 pm to rickgrimes
While corporations who used to make things are busy looking under every rock for imagined problems of inequity and injustice
Elon is out here producing things of actual value to actual people, while also inspiring and rallying people to dream big about things they'd given up on
Musk for benevolent king 2024
Elon is out here producing things of actual value to actual people, while also inspiring and rallying people to dream big about things they'd given up on
Musk for benevolent king 2024
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