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: SpaceX Starlink to go South for first time with planned… »
reader comments 46 with 28 posters participating Share this story Microsoft today unveiled a modular data center that can be deployed to remote areas, as well as a partnership with SpaceX to connect those data centers to the Internet with Starlink satellite broadband. Microsoft said the Azure Modular Datacenter (MDC) is “for customers who need cloud… Read More: Microsoft’s new data center in a box will use SpaceX… »
Enlarge / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish. reader comments 25 with 21 posters participating Share this story SpaceX is one of the 386 entities that have qualified to bid in a federal auction for rural-broadband funding. SpaceX has so far overcome the Federal Communications Commission’s doubts about whether Starlink, its low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite… Read More: SpaceX gets FCC approval to bid in $16 billion rural-broadband… »
Enlarge / Melvinjohn Ashue, vice chairman of the Hoh Tribe, discusses the tribe’s use of Starlink broadband. reader comments 159 with 101 posters participating Share this story A remote tribe in Washington state is one of the first users of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband, having been connected recently after years of struggling to get modern Internet… Read More: Remote tribe says SpaceX Starlink “catapulted” them into 21st century »
Enlarge / 60 Starlink satellites stacked for launch at SpaceX facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. reader comments 124 with 71 posters participating Share this story SpaceX’s Starlink broadband has been available in a limited beta for the past few months, and SpaceX has now launched enough satellites for a public beta that will be available… Read More: SpaceX has launched enough satellites for Starlink’s upcoming public beta »
Enlarge / A Starlink user terminal and wildfire-devastated areas seen in images shared by Washington state’s Emergency Management Division. reader comments 188 with 87 posters participating Share this story SpaceX Starlink is providing Internet access to Washington state emergency responders in areas ravaged by wildfires. The group has deployed seven Starlink user terminals (i.e. satellite… Read More: SpaceX Starlink brings Internet to emergency responders in wildfire areas »