Starlink Maritime
Up to 350 Mbps, $5,000 a month, $10,000 equipment for two high performance terminals.
Starlink
Up to 350 Mbps, $5,000 a month, $10,000 equipment for two high performance terminals.
Starlink
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Related: case study of SoaceX switching to Starlink for booster/ fairing recovery fleet.
59x download speed, 7x upload, 95% less latency, 70% cost savings (using retail $5k/month rate).
https://api.starlink.com/public-files/SpaceXNavyStarlink-case-study.pdf
59x download speed, 7x upload, 95% less latency, 70% cost savings (using retail $5k/month rate).
https://api.starlink.com/public-files/SpaceXNavyStarlink-case-study.pdf
Wow. Not for small boat owners! I assume this is targeted at cruise ships and “super yacht” owners like Jeff Bezos (who currently is unable to get his new 400 ft boat out of the shipyard in The Netherlands because an old bridge is in the way).
You missed the biggest category, commercial cargo ships. Fleets of all sizes are going to be flocking to this. And, according to the maritime availability map, looks like laser linked satellites will be blanketing the 53 degree orbit shells by the end of the year, while polar shells by mid year next year.
I did not realize that cargo vessels would need that much bandwidth. Or are the current service providers so bad, and so costly, that Starlink Maritime looks like a bargain?
Yes. Also, it ends up being an employee perk. Right now, it is so costly, the most employees can do is access email and the like. With Starlink, they can stream videos and play online games when off shift. Huge perk.
Yeah, Maritime is a good upside market that Starlink kinda gets 'for free'. There's ~50k or so merchant ships around the world which are all (or at least most of them) using other services already which are orders of magnitude slower than Starlink for +/-equivalent duckets. For price comparison, a big Inmarsat antenna costs $30k and monthly subscription rates range from $2k to $30k.
Unrelated, the starlink coverage map clearly illustrates the difference between ISLs and no ISLs. What's also interesting is the delay in service availability in the ~tropics which could suggest limitation in ISL range, since the sats are farthest apart at low latitudes. Once the constellation numbers grow that sat-to-sat range would come down.
Also interesting that the 'later' service band is shifted south (which doesn't quite align with the ranging logic from above), but also south enough that it would cover more shipping lanes in the west pacific.
In the latest FCC filing for Starship telemetry, they call out a protection angle from geostationary sats. That may be part of it. (North-south Asymmetry is still weird though, due to ground stations?)
dhanson865
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OneWeb did their own 5G interference study which supports SpaceX's position over that of DISH. Includes suburban commercial users.
OneWeb backs up Starlink 5G interference warning - SpaceNews
OneWeb backs up Starlink 5G interference warning - SpaceNews
Agreed, thanks for the link. But it is an odd document; at the bottom left it says it is “confidential” and at the bottom right it says “Quarterly newsletter”. Is it an internal company document? It’s not written that way. It reads more like a promotional marketing piece.
In any case, if authentic, the company is placing a big bet that Starship will be launching V2 Starlinks this year. An operational Starship is essential.
That is in line with what the leaked Elon e-mail said last November.
Elon Musk says SpaceX could face 'genuine risk of bankruptcy' from Starship engine production
It appears to be a newsletter targeted towards suppliers. In another Reddit post, a different redditor said he worked at a supplier and received the same newsletter. On a meta level, this is an interesting peak at how SpaceX works with suppliers, keeping them informed, giving them strategic information so the suppliers can have confidence to ramp up their own production. I think it is 100% legit.
And yes, Elon had stated in the past that Starship is absolutely critical to Starlink since the v2 satellites are too big for Falcon 9.
De Havilland is integrating Starlink in their new planes .
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