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5000 starlink satellites launched soon
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Launch Roundup: three back-to-back Starlink missions to cross 5,000 Starlink satellites launched - NASASpaceFlight.com
Following a plethora of launches last week, the week of Aug. 14 through Aug. 20…
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dhanson865
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The availability map now has a dropdown to view more maps.
Hover or tap to view download, upload, and latency values.
Portugal has the best download speeds, Spain is not too shabby either.
Direct links to the new maps:
https://www.starlink.com/map?view=download
https://www.starlink.com/map?view=latency
https://www.starlink.com/map?view=upload
Hover or tap to view download, upload, and latency values.
Portugal has the best download speeds, Spain is not too shabby either.
Direct links to the new maps:
https://www.starlink.com/map?view=download
https://www.starlink.com/map?view=latency
https://www.starlink.com/map?view=upload
Buckminster
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This has nothing to do with Starlink though, Apple is using Globalstar satellite constellation, SpaceX is just providing the launch.
The only relation to Starlink is that Starlink is fighting with Globalstar in front of FCC, trying to take away Globalstar's exclusive right to 1.6/2.4 GHz spectrum...
Well, we now know how Globalstar will stave off bankruptcy from Starlink competition, at least: “Globalstar has agreed to allocate 85 percent of its current and future network capacity to Apple's iPhones”.
Their network is now just a standby network for Apple’s SOS feature.
Now we know why the stock GSAT popped FIVE days ago… holding
As others have said, this really has nothing to do with Starlink directly. But, better to use a domestic launch partner for your new (paid for by Apple) satellites than a foreign one IMHO. (Unless you need equator launch capability and insertion)
As others have said, this really has nothing to do with Starlink directly. But, better to use a domestic launch partner for your new (paid for by Apple) satellites than a foreign one IMHO. (Unless you need equator launch capability and insertion)
This is Starlink related: Pension fund sues Jeff Bezos and Amazon for not using Falcon 9 rockets
We know that Bezos has a huge ego; remember his stupid “welcome to the club” tweet after SpaceX successfully landed a booster for the first time? That was a brain dead statement because what actually happened was that SpaceX instantly created a new club — landing an orbital class rocket — that Amazon was not a member of, and 8 years later is still not a member of!
Given that SpaceX is happy to launch sats for competitors like OneWeb, I’m pretty sure that they would have taken Amazons money and done Kuiper launches for them.
This all reminds me of established car companies ignoring Tesla’s repeated offers over the years to open up its Supercharger network to competitors if they would contribute to the cost of building and maintaining the network. The car companies could not stomach the thought of seeing their cars plugged into Tesla chargers; what a terrible visual! And now this year almost all those companies have caved in North America and will make their EVs compatible with the Tesla plug type.
I think the argument that “We did not solicit a bid from SpaceX because using the F9 would have contributed to their revenue and given them a competitive advantage over us” is pretty weak. If Amazon is serious about Kuiper then the most important thing is to get the project operational and meet the FCC license deadline because if they can’t do that the project is dead and they will have wasted a massive amount of money.
We know that Bezos has a huge ego; remember his stupid “welcome to the club” tweet after SpaceX successfully landed a booster for the first time? That was a brain dead statement because what actually happened was that SpaceX instantly created a new club — landing an orbital class rocket — that Amazon was not a member of, and 8 years later is still not a member of!
Given that SpaceX is happy to launch sats for competitors like OneWeb, I’m pretty sure that they would have taken Amazons money and done Kuiper launches for them.
This all reminds me of established car companies ignoring Tesla’s repeated offers over the years to open up its Supercharger network to competitors if they would contribute to the cost of building and maintaining the network. The car companies could not stomach the thought of seeing their cars plugged into Tesla chargers; what a terrible visual! And now this year almost all those companies have caved in North America and will make their EVs compatible with the Tesla plug type.
Is there any reason that they wouldn't be able to get an extension to the deadline? Those things are only as set as people say they are. If the constellation is going up, but is incomplete by the deadline, then the FCC may consider it to be in the country's best interest to have the constellation completed so that we all benefit from increased competition. Better late than never.
Musk and Bezos not liking each other is the sort of arrangement that you want in capitalism because they won't collude on anything. We'll see true competition.
Law doesn't seem to allow extensions for systems
Federal Register :: Request Access
However, it seems they can be?
Otherwise, loss of bond and license.
Thanks for the link. Here's one in return, the FCC Authorization Order for Kuiper. Apparently Kuiper applied a couple years after an initial round of applications, and the rules changed in the meantime. Kuiper wanted to qualify under the older rules, which was denied. There is also all sorts of mentions of other companies saying that Kuiper needs to do this or that to complete the application, and one company even suggested that the FCC not authorize Kuiper because the application was incomplete. The FCC went ahead and stated that the authorization was contingent on providing the additional information.
In reading all this stuff, I realized that the FCC refers to satellites as "space stations", that there is a six year deadline to get half of a constellation's satellites up, and a nine year deadline to get them all up. I went through some math elsewhere to see if they could get the whole thing up by 2026 (six years after the authorization order), when they actually only have to get half up. So they only need about 20 launches in three years to hit that, and they have agreements with three launch providers.
Unfortunately, they chose Vulcan Centaur, New Glenn and Ariane 6.
I was going to throw in a meme about "If you want to do something right, do it yourself", but New Glenn is Jeff's "do it yourself" option. I guess the moral of the story is to get the rocket working first, then come up with payloads. Cart. Horse.
Ok, we now have more details about Starshield. From Elon: “SpaceX is building Starshield for the US government, which is similar to, but much smaller than Starlink, as it will not have to handle millions of users. That system will be owned and controlled by the US government.”
So Starshield will use Starlink tech, but it’ll be a completely different satellite constellation. No doubt its own dedicated ground stations too.
So Starshield will use Starlink tech, but it’ll be a completely different satellite constellation. No doubt its own dedicated ground stations too.
Starlink has had 105 successful launches and over 4000 operational satellites in orbit. About 650 satellites are still making their way to their operational orbit.
I’m always amazed at how people who you’d think would know about what Elons companies are doing, don’t know anything. At the all in summit, the first questioner (was it Jurvetson?) was surprised when Elon said he was in his plane using Starlink, and then was even more surprised when Elon said some airlines had already installed it.
Starlink and SES join forces for multi-orbit cruise connectivity
SpaceX and SES are pooling their broadband satellites to offer cruise operators an integrated service promising up to 3 gigabits per second of capacity per ship.
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