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SpaceX's Transporter-1 mission in January 2021 deployed 133 commercial and government spacecraft and 10 Starlink satellites, the most spacecraft ever deployed on a single mission.
The booster that completed its ninth flight on 2021-05-04 previously launched the Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite, a set of Iridium satellites, and six other Starlink missions.
The Federal Communications Commission approved a modification of SpaceX’s license for its Starlink constellation to operate more than 2,800 additional satellites in lower orbits.
The FCC order requires SpaceX to operate its Starlink satellites at altitudes no higher than 580 km.
SpaceX planned a Starlink launch on 2021-04-28 to place another 60 satellites into orbit, which would raise the total number of operational Starlink satellites above 1,400.
Elon Musk requested FCC approval to operate an additional 2,824 Starlink satellites at the 540–570 km altitude range.
SpaceX is licensed to operate 1,584 Starlink satellites at orbital altitudes between 540 and 570 km.
One of the satellites from OneWeb’s previous batch of 36 launched 2021-03-25 could have come too close to SpaceX’s Starlink-1546 satellite.
Starlink-1546 was launched in September 2020 and is currently in an orbit of about 450 km.
OneWeb maneuvered satellite OneWeb-0178 on 2021-04-03 to avoid a close approach with SpaceX Starlink-1546.
LeoLabs estimated the actual close approach distance between OneWeb-0178 and Starlink-1546 to be 1,72 m using its own data.
SpaceX is offering Starlink beta testers a terminal that includes an antenna and router for $499.
SpaceX first launched its Starlink broadband services to residential users in 2020 supporting about 100 Mbps broadband speed with unlimited data caps per month.
SpaceX raised $850,000,000 on 2021-02-23, to support investments in its Starlink satellite broadband constellation and reusable launch vehicle Starship.
SpaceX expects to achieve full global Starlink connectivity a few months after its 28th Starlink launch, a milestone the company anticipates reaching late 2021.
SpaceX turned off its automated collision avoidance system during the OneWeb/Starlink near-collision incident.
The OneWeb/Starlink near-collision incident involved the U.S. Space Force alerting OneWeb, who contacted Starlink for coordination.
Starlink is a division of SpaceX that operates a satellite internet constellation designed to deliver high-speed broadband internet to locations of the globe with historically challenged connectivity.
Moritz Seger, Digital Transformation Manager at ZAHORANSKY AG, supports using Starlink in combination with ADTANCE Support and Fieldstreaming to gain independence from internationally varying conditions and poorly developed mobile networks in rural areas.
SpaceX's Starlink and Amazon's Kuiper account for almost half of the projected demand for small satellites from 2021 to 2030.