SpaceX moved closer to building a high-speed internet system. The company announced on its website:
On Tuesday, August 18 at 10:31 a.m. EDT, SpaceX launched its twelfth Starlink mission, which launched 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported launch of the GPS III Space Vehicle 03 mission in June 2020. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Starlink satellites deployed approximately 15 minutes after liftoff.
You can watch a replay of the launch webcast above, and if you would like to receive updates on Starlink news and service availability in your area, please visit starlink.com
CNBC reported:
Starlink is the ambitious plan by Elon Musk’s company to build an interconnected network of about 12,000 small satellites in low Earth orbit. To date, SpaceX has launched about 650 of its version 1.0 satellites and is currently building a system of ground stations and user terminals to connect consumers directly to its network.
The company confirmed during the webcast of its latest launch on Monday that employees have been testing Starlink’s latency and download speeds, key measures for an internet service provider. SpaceX senior certification engineer Kate Tice said that the initial results of those tests “have been good.”
“They show super low latency and download speeds greater than 100 [megabits] per second. That means our latency is low enough to play the fastest online video games and our download speeds are fast enough to stream multiple HD movies at once,” Tice said. Rest of article.
Can't stop progress. This project will be great for those who find it hard to obtain quality internet service in rural areas.
18 comments:
I posted a comment on a tread a few months ago about SpaceX & Elon Musk. He's my hero. SpaceX, Tesla, AI chip planted in pigs brain. WOW! He's done more than 1000 other men together has accomplished.
Can't wait to get off comcast who has been ripping me off for years!
Go to Star link website to get update when service will be in your area.
https://www.starlink.com
Will this be like directv where you lose service during a storm?
Queue up the Mississippi legislature to appropriate millions to dial up internet to all schools and homes in the Delta a few years after this launches. And then do a press release about it.
Reply to 10:36 AM
If I've read the various articles correctly, these first Starlink sats are using Ku-band, which is less susceptible to rain attenuation than Ka-band. Future versions of the sats will have multiple bands (Ku, Ka, and V). They will also have the lasers to bounce signals between other satellites in the Starlink satellite constellation. I suspect having multiple satellites overhead as options will allow a signal to get through in all but the worst storms.
10:46 AM
Weather has NO effect on signal.
Explained below.
The phased antenna arrays Starlink uses should be largely unaffected by weather. They steer radio beams by shifting timing through each antenna. This is all done electronically and has an instantanious response. In fact, if you installed some accelerometers in the ground receiver/transmitter to help it keep track of its orientation, you could very likely toss the box up and down in the air and shake it vigorously without loosing signal (assuming you didn't end up breaking it XD).
Starlink. Skynet. Hmmmm.
I’ve seen this movie.
Starlink and Skynet satellite surveillance and control systems are being deployed around the world under the guise of "high speed internet access" and are currently being used against common citizens in an effort to eliminate opposition to the Illuminati banking cartel and their destruction of our civil liberties.
Countries involved in these programs include the USA, UK, Spain, Germany and France. The National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States has developed extremely efficient ways to control the human brain using this technology. Remote Neural Monitoring (RNM) was sold to public funding agencies under the cover of “revolutionizing crime detection and investigation”.
Remote Neural Monitoring
RNM works by remotely accessing the brain in order to detect and decipher any thought taking place inside the human mind. Research studies have demonstrated that the human mind thinks at a rate of approximately 5,000 bits per second. This rate of thought is eclipsed by the capacity of supercomputers which compute at a rate of many trillions of cycles per second. RNM systems have been deployed via satellite relay and utilize biotelemetry tracking of any human brain by way of the brain’s distinctive system set of bioelectric resonances. Supercomputers can then send messages through a person’s nervous system in order to influence their performance in a desired manner.
RNM has been developed through approximately 50 years of neuro-electromagnetic research on involuntary human subjects. DNA microchips have been placed in approximately 20 million Americans that circulate in the bloodstream and become lodged in the brain. This renders them subject to manipulation and control. Additionally, an implanted person can be “walked” while sleeping without their knowledge or consent. This is a frightening technology that is being used by some of the most ruthless and immoral agencies on the planet which are in turn controlled by the Illuminati banking cartel.
With RNM technology it is possible to read and control a person’s emotional thought processes along with their subconscious and dreams. At present, around the world, supercomputers are monitoring millions of people simultaneously at the speed of 20 billion bits per second especially in countries like USA, Japan, Israel and many European countries.
I believe several of you laughed at Carey Wright on this block for reaching out to Elon Musk a few months ago.
Keep hatin'
Good to see so many JJ readers look up satellite internet on the web so they could act smart in the JJ comments. Anonymously.
"Good to see so many JJ readers look up satellite internet on the web so they could act smart in the JJ comments. Anonymously" .
Good point Anonymous 4:56 PM.
Based on @2:41, I foresee ALCOA shares spiking as deployment nears.
I can’t decide if Musk is one of the greatest con men to ever live or actually believes he is a business genius. The fall will be spectacular.
Starlink will render Brandon Presley obsolete.
Sept 10 @ 2:41......
Hey Ramey's has "Tin Foil" for hat building on sale 2 for 1!
You also might want to drill out those dental fillings so they can't invade that inquiring mind of yours.
And watch out for that Marvin the Martian and his all powerful secret weapon "Q-36 Space Modulator"
I'm willing to believe that Musk's Starlink project will deliver if the astronomers and the FCC let him do it. I have no confidence that my local Mississippi E.P.A. will be able to effectively field and operate a fiber-to-every-member network. I do get excellent electrical power service from them though...
We can put men on the moon (reportedly) but we can't develop a reliable nationwide internet capability?
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