In the middle of last week, the Falcon 9 rocket was delivered into orbit the next series of sixty Starlink satellites - we were able to fly by track including here. The goal of this program is to provide internet access anywhere on the planet. There are many uncertainties and questions about Starlink – for example, the public is interested in how many satellites will be needed to provide the necessary coverage and whether the set plan, which included making satellite internet access available in the United States and Canada by the end of the year, will be achieved. Founder and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk this week, he answered some of the aforementioned questions via the social network Twitter.
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When asked about the launch of a "space" Internet connection, Musk na Twitter replied that it was not public beta testing will begin in about three months, public beta then it will be launched in about six months. Satellite connection via Starlink is intended to provide fast and affordable internet even for places where connectivity options have been rather insufficient until now. Potential users can reportedly look forward to download speeds of up to 1 Gb/s with latency maxat least 35 ms. There are currently 420 Starlink satellites in orbit, and SpaceX would like to have XNUMX satellites in space by the end of the year, totalingoneThe total number of satellites should then be 12. While potential users of satellite Internet connections are enthusiastic about the project, Starlink is not so popular with astronomers. According to them, the satellites could seriously disrupt sky observations. Elon Musk these concerns he tried to distract at the Satellite 2020 conference, but Starlink still has quite a few opponents. Are you attracted by the idea of satellite internet from Musk's satellites, or are you more of an opponent of Starlink?
I watched the satellite fly by and it didn't look like the photos in the gallery at all. They flew one behind the other at approximately 15 second intervals.
They are not always observable in the same formation.
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