SpaceX Internet Satellite Network: Starlink

[ecarfan]

My apologies for misinterpreting your post.

The official name of the country commonly referred to as South Korea is in fact the Republic of Korea. See South Korea - Wikipedia . So that is why it is listed that way.

The official name of North Korea is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the DPRK). See North Korea - Wikipedia .

But we are getting off topic...

 

[ggr]

It is nice they updated the signup page to allow you to choose countries now (a few hundred choices, I assume it is a complete list). I only saw one Korea listed and it's not under the S section of the list, just Korea Republic Of. Singapore and China and Russia and most any country I could think to test were on the list, the one I couldn't find was North Korea.

I've always found it funny that South and North Korea's official names are Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea, respectively.

 

[e-FTW]

Anyone tried to use + addressing to sign up for many locations? That way one might be informed rather quickly for when the first locations open up for beta, without having to set up a boatload or email accounts...

 

[Ostrichsak]

Anyone tried to use + addressing to sign up for many locations? That way one might be informed rather quickly for when the first locations open up for beta, without having to set up a boatload or email accounts...

No. Maybe I don't understand your question but I'm only located in one area so I only feel comfortable signing up to beta test for that area. If I signed up for an area I'm not in I might take a spot from somebody who's actually in that area. Doesn't seem like it benefits anybody really. Example is I live in northern Colorado and signed up. If they have coverage there and need a beta tester I'm more than happy to lend a hand and hopefully get cool story to tell others out of it. A good buddy of mine lives in the Panhandle of Nebraska and if I sign up with an alias email for that area and they select me instead of him when he's in that area needs the coverage I'd feel like a bit of a jack wagon.

 

[ecarfan]

Spotted on Instagram.

 

[dhanson865]

My apologies for misinterpreting your post.

The official name of the country commonly referred to as South Korea is in fact the Republic of Korea. See South Korea - Wikipedia . So that is why it is listed that way.

The official name of North Korea is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the DPRK). See North Korea - Wikipedia .

I looked up the Wikipedia article for the Koreas before I made my post to be sure I looked at the correct portions of the list of countries. So your post linking to the Wikipedia entries I already referenced made me laugh and cringe a little.

That others are marking your post informative makes me wonder if I have to document every post I make for people to take me seriously.

 

[dhanson865]

Cuba - Wikipedia

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean meet. It is east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the U.S. state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Haiti and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.

Internet in Cuba - Wikipedia

In September 1996 (23 years ago), Cuba's first connection to the Internet, a 64 kbit/s link to Sprint in the United States, was established. After this initial introduction, the expansion of Internet access in Cuba stagnated.

So hopefully everyone knows what I'm talking about here.

Cuba does not show up in the drop down under C or R. and Yes, I know there is a reason why Cuba might be excluded, please don't mansplain this to me, if you want to talk about why, say the "why" and add something constructive, don't make it about me posting the "what" as if I have no clue were Cuba is or any history of it.

I wish I could just say that Cuba doesn't show up in the list under C or R and not have to document it to this extent.

 

[Grendal]

According to someone with inside sources, the SpaceX Starlink team builds roughly six satellites a day. So that is roughly 10 days build time for each launch grouping.

 

[dhanson865]

According to someone with inside sources, the SpaceX Starlink team builds roughly six satellites a day. So that is roughly 10 days build time for each launch grouping.

So ~3 Starlink launches per month is close to optimal (3.x launches per month for Starlink + whatever else people pay starlink to send up).

I wonder if they'll up the production rate of sats when Starship is launching or if they'll just do the same amount of deployment with less launches.

I know they are somewhat limited by falcon 9 stage 1 supply (only so many stage 1 boosters sitting around, they are launching those about as quick as they can refurbish them).

Maybe they could produce sats at a higher rate but aren't bothering to because they are roughly in synch with what they can do on Falcon 9 at this point.

 

[bxr140]

According to someone with inside sources, the SpaceX Starlink team builds roughly six satellites a day.

That checks out at this point. One web got up to 2/day even with their relatively low total sat quantity and that’s a more complex/old school sat, designed and built by an old school company.

As with most things, the space industry is all about the supply chain and not final I&T—it would be interesting to see what kind of public domain information is out there.

 

[dpeilow]

Spotted on Instagram.

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Multiple images were posted on Reddit.

 

[ecarfan]

What are the spherical objects? And what size are they? Can’t get a sense of scale from the photo.

 

[mongo]

What are the spherical objects? And what size are they? Can’t get a sense of scale from the photo.

Other antennas with domes on top to protect the antenna/ mechanisms.

 

[dhanson865]

What are the spherical objects? And what size are they? Can’t get a sense of scale from the photo.

Those are the types of larger antenna that will be used at the base station locations around the country (not customer facing, part of the starlink network on the infrastructure side).

The small dish for your house is about a foot across and a couple of feet tall (flying saucer on a stick), the larger item in the fence with it is several feet across, maybe 5 or 6 ft diameter dome.

The larger antenna would be seen at each of these locations

 

[dhanson865]

I think the cells shown on this tool are arbitrary but it's a decent tool to give you a rough idea how much of the time you have coverage now.

https://sebsebmc.github.io/starlink-coverage/index.html


For example the cell that includes my home says it is covered on average 994 minutes of 1440. This is approximately 69% of the day.

Seattle area cell says 1348/1440 93.6% of the day. Probably a good bet that Washington ST will be in the first wave of beta.

 

[dhanson865]

apparently there are small dishes at Boca Chica in TX as well.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Those are the types of larger antenna that will be used at the base station locations around the country (not customer facing, part of the starlink network on the infrastructure side).

The small dish for your house is about a foot across and a couple of feet tall (flying saucer on a stick), the larger item in the fence with it is several feet across, maybe 5 or 6 ft diameter dome.

The larger antenna would be seen at each of these locations

Loring, ME was the site of an air base. It's now an airport.

 

[webbbcam]

I think the cells shown on this tool are arbitrary but it's a decent tool to give you a rough idea how much of the time you have coverage now.

https://sebsebmc.github.io/starlink-coverage/index.html


For example the cell that includes my home says it is covered on average 994 minutes of 1440. This is approximately 69% of the day.

Seattle area cell says 1348/1440 93.6% of the day. Probably a good bet that Washington ST will be in the first wave of beta.

Woo Hoo
Hayden Lake (where our cabin is) is covered 1368/1440 mins per day. Approx 95%
Impatiently waiting for an invite to Beta-test

John

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Loring, ME was the site of an air base. It's now an airport.

84.5% current coverage for me (Central Maine).

 

[dhanson865]

apparently there are small dishes at Boca Chica in TX as well.

and 6 of the large antennas for Ku / Ka band gateway