Enlarge / Satellite broadband user terminals designed by Amazon’s Project Kuiper. reader comments 60 with Share this story Amazon has designed three satellite broadband user terminals and will start offering Internet service in 2024, the company announced today. The standard terminal, designed for residential and small business customers, is expected to cost Amazon less than… Read More »
bjdlzx | Getty Images reader comments 75 with 45 posters participating Share this story More than 22,000 miles above Earth, the KA-SAT is locked in orbit. Traveling at 7,000 miles per hour, in sync with the planet’s rotation, the satellite beams high-speed Internet down to people across Europe. Since 2011, it has helped homeowners, businesses,… Read More »
Enlarge / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish. reader comments 196 with 99 posters participating Share this story SpaceX today was granted permission to use a lower orbit for Starlink satellites, as regulators agreed with SpaceX that the change will improve broadband speed and latency while making it easier to minimize orbital debris. In granting… Read More »
Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish in the Idaho panhandle’s Coeur d’Alene National Forest. reader comments 149 with 82 posters participating Share this story SpaceX CEO Elon Musk expects the Starlink satellite broadband service to be “fully mobile” later in 2021, allowing customers to use the satellite dishes away from home. “Yeah, should be fully… Read More »
Enlarge / Cars could eventually get satellite Internet from SpaceX Starlink. reader comments 52 with 29 posters participating Share this story SpaceX on Friday asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to deploy Starlink satellite broadband to passenger cars and other moving vehicles. The application describes SpaceX’s plans for Earth Stations in Motion (ESIMs) for… Read More »
Enlarge / Starlink logo imposed on stylized image of the Earth. reader comments 98 with 61 posters participating Share this story SpaceX Starlink engineers answered questions in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Saturday, covering topics such as data caps (which they hope to never implement), when the public beta will expand to more… Read More »
Enlarge / Illustration of a OneWeb satellite. reader comments 46 with 32 posters participating Share this story OneWeb has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy under new ownership and says it will begin launching more broadband satellites next month. Similar to SpaceX Starlink, OneWeb is building a network of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites that can provide high-speed… Read More »
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish and equipment in the Idaho panhandle’s Coeur d’Alene National Forest. reader comments 233 with 90 posters participating Share this story When SpaceX opened the Starlink public beta last month, the company told users to expect “brief periods of no connectivity at all” over the first few months. It’s one of… Read More »
Enlarge / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish. reader comments 293 with 149 posters participating Share this story SpaceX has begun sending email invitations to Starlink’s public beta and will charge beta users $99 per month plus a one-time fee of $499 for the user terminal, mounting tripod, and router. The emails are being sent… Read More »
Enlarge / Starlink logo imposed on stylized image of the Earth. reader comments 91 with 53 posters participating Share this story SpaceX has agreed to provide Internet service to 45 families in a Texas school district in early 2021 and to an additional 90 families later on, the school district announced last week. The announcement… Read More »