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Starlink

US
commercialFounded 1989
Austin, California, United States
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The 2021-04-27 license modification reduced Starlink’s signal lag for video calls, gaming, and other latency-critical applications by shortening the distance between satellites and ground antennas.

Mentioned as: StarlinkNarrative GeneralJun 1, 2021Viasat wants FCC to review Starlink’s government funding

SpaceX operates more than 1,600 Starlink satellites at about 550 km altitude and holds a license to deploy around 4,400 Starlink satellites in total.

Mentioned as: StarlinkOrg RelationshipJun 1, 2021Viasat wants FCC to review Starlink’s government funding

SpaceX launched a batch of 60 Starlink satellites five days after Viasat requested on 2021-05-21 that the FCC stay the license modification.

Mentioned as: starlinkTechnical ProductJun 1, 2021Viasat wants FCC to review Starlink’s government funding

Viasat filed a motion with the Federal Communications Commission on 2021-05-21 to stay approval of a SpaceX license modification that increases the number of Starlink satellites allowed at about 550 km from 1,584 to 4,408.

Mentioned as: StarlinkNarrative GeneralMay 26, 2021SpaceX sets Falcon 9 fairing reuse mark with Starlink launch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a set of 60 Starlink satellites on 2021-05-26 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Mentioned as: StarlinkOrg RelationshipMay 26, 2021SpaceX sets Falcon 9 fairing reuse mark with Starlink launch

SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday.

Mentioned as: StarlinkOrg RelationshipMay 26, 2021Sixty Starlinks Successful Sendoff

Viasat's 2021-05-21 motion to the FCC seeks to block SpaceX from launching additional satellites until the FCC completes an environmental review of the Starlink constellation.

Mentioned as: StarlinkOrg RelationshipMay 26, 2021SpaceX sets Falcon 9 fairing reuse mark with Starlink launch

The second payload fairing half on the 2021-05-26 launch was on its third flight and had been used previously on a Starlink launch and the Transporter-1 rideshare mission in January.

Mentioned as: StarlinkOrg RelationshipMay 26, 2021SpaceX sets Falcon 9 fairing reuse mark with Starlink launch

Of the more than 1,600 Starlink satellites in orbit, roughly 700 have launched since January 2021.

Mentioned as: StarlinkNarrative GeneralMay 25, 2021Viasat asks FCC to halt Starlink launches while it seeks court ruling

Starlink surpassed the 1,584 satellites permitted under its previous license in 550-kilometer orbits after launching a batch of 52 satellites on 2021-05-15.

Mentioned as: StarlinkNarrative GeneralMay 25, 2021Viasat asks FCC to halt Starlink launches while it seeks court ruling

Viasat asked the Federal Communications Commission to stay an 2021-04-27 license modification that allows SpaceX to continue building out the Starlink broadband constellation.

Mentioned as: StarlinkNarrative GeneralMay 25, 2021Viasat asks FCC to halt Starlink launches while it seeks court ruling

SpaceX is slated to launch 60 more Starlink satellites on 2021-05-26.

Mentioned as: StarlinkOrg RelationshipMay 25, 2021Viasat asks FCC to halt Starlink launches while it seeks court ruling

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX president and chief operating officer, expects Starlink terminals to reach the few-hundred-dollar price range within the next year or two and stated that current terminal costs are already less than half the $3,000 SpaceX originally paid for the equipment.

Mentioned as: StarlinkTechnical ProductMay 20, 2021Europe making progress on sovereign LEO constellation as OneWeb and Starlink race ahead

SpaceX’s Starlink LEO constellation had more than 1,600 satellites estimated to be in orbit at the time of writing.

Mentioned as: StarlinkTechnical ProductMay 20, 2021Europe making progress on sovereign LEO constellation as OneWeb and Starlink race ahead

SpaceX is offering Starlink beta testers a terminal that includes an antenna and router for $499.

Mentioned as: StarlinkNarrative FinancialMay 20, 2021Europe making progress on sovereign LEO constellation as OneWeb and Starlink race ahead

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a group of Starlink satellites on 2021-05-15.

Mentioned as: StarlinkOrg RelationshipMay 15, 2021SpaceX launches Starlink satellites and rideshare payloads

The Starlink launch scheduled for the weekend of 2021-05-15 will carry 52 satellites instead of the normal 60 because the mission includes a couple of paying guest spacecraft.

Mentioned as: StarlinkOrg RelationshipMay 14, 2021More Starlink + OneWeb & SoftBank Plus SpaceX & Google Cloud

More than 1,500 Starlink satellites have been launched to orbit to date and will be used to deliver data to network-edge locations via Google Cloud.

Mentioned as: StarlinkOrg RelationshipMay 14, 2021More Starlink + OneWeb & SoftBank Plus SpaceX & Google Cloud

SpaceX will launch 52 Starlink satellites the weekend of 2021-05-15.

Mentioned as: starlinkTechnical ProductMay 14, 2021More Starlink + OneWeb & SoftBank Plus SpaceX & Google Cloud

Starlink will support Microsoft's space-focused, modular cloud business called Azure Space, which will offer mobile cloud computing data centers deployable anywhere in the world.

Mentioned as: StarlinkNarrative GeneralMay 13, 2021Starlink teams up with Google for ground infrastructure
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