SpaceX has already shipped 100,000 Starlink satellite internet terminals
StarLink has already shipped 100,000 internet satellite terminals before even reaching global coverage. Chef Spacex ELON Musk revealed the figure on Twitter, where he also listed the 14 regions where the service is currently available. “Our license applications are waiting in many other countries. Hoping to serve the earth soon!” He said in a follow-up tweet.
Spacex launched Starlink as a beta service at the end of 2020, offering potential testers at the time of the possibility of being the first to $ 99 a month. The terminal itself is not included in the monthly fees: StarLink sells its starter kit with the user terminal or the antenna dish, its support and its power supply, as well as a wifi router for additional $ 499, that customers will have to pay before. You can see what the terminal looks like the image above, showing a dish installed on the roof of a school in Chile.
StarLink has been designed to serve customers in remote locations where Internet options are usually limited or non-existent. Maybe that’s why clients are willing to pay the initial rather steep cost. According to CNBC, the company has reported having 90,000 users in July, indicating that it has signed 10,000 customers less and less than a few weeks.
The service uses thousands of small orbit satellites to provide an internet connection to its customers. Spacex has already deployed nearly 1,800 satellites for StarLink constellation, but it plans to launch up to 42,000 small Internet satellites in the future. The President of Gwynne Shotwell previously stated that StarLink will be able to offer overall continuous coverage once all deployed satellites reach their operational orbit, which could occur as of September.
