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SpaceX's Starlink satellites accounted for 773 of the 1,029 smallsats launched in 2020.
Washington State’s Department of Commerce tested Starlink with Hoh Tribe members at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and those users were able to use it successfully for telehealth appointments and virtual learning sessions.
Elon Musk is offering Starlink satellite broadband service to rural consumers for $99 per month.
SpaceX began a public beta test for Starlink on 2020-10-26 and invited early interested users to sign up for the service and order hardware.
SpaceX expects Starlink bandwidth, latency, and uptime to improve dramatically by the summer of 2021 as it adds more satellites to the constellation.
Ector County Independent School District in West Texas will use Starlink to provide free broadband to 45 families in a rural part of the county beginning early in 2021.
SpaceX has more than 800 Starlink satellites in orbit, including 180 satellites launched in October 2020 on three Falcon 9 launches.
SpaceX launched a set of Starlink satellites on 2020-10-24.
One satellite from the 2020-10-18 Starlink launch, identified as Starlink-1819, did not raise its orbit and its tracking data indicated orbital decay consistent with a malfunction.
The Falcon 9 upper stage from the 2020-10-24 launch deployed a payload of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit 63 minutes after liftoff.
The 2020-10-24 launch was the third Starlink mission in less than two weeks following Falcon 9 Starlink launches on 2020-10-06 and 2020-10-18 that each carried 60 satellites.
Viasat asserted in FCC filings that the Starlink satellite failure rate is far higher than SpaceX projected, citing in part the deliberate deorbiting of the original 60 v0.9 Starlink satellites launched in May 2019.
On 2020-10-20, Microsoft expanded its cloud computing services for the space industry to include mobile cloud computing data centers that can be deployed anywhere and connect to SpaceX’s Starlink and SES’ O3b internet satellites.
More than 50 Starlink satellites have reentered, including 45 of the 60 v0.9 satellites launched in May 2019 and the first two Tintin prototypes launched in February 2018.
The Falcon 9 upper stage deployed a payload of 60 Starlink satellites 63 minutes after liftoff on 2020-10-18.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a set of Starlink satellites on 2020-10-18 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 8:25 a.m. Eastern.
Early users of Starlink highlighted by the company include the Washington state emergency management department, which used Starlink to provide connectivity during recent wildfires, and the Hoh tribe, which previously had no broadband access because of its remote location.
The 2020-10-18 launch was the second Starlink mission in less than two weeks as SpaceX seeks to maintain a launch cadence of roughly two Starlink missions per month.
SpaceX has launched more than 700 Starlink satellites since 2018 but had not introduced commercial Starlink service as of the RDOF qualified bidders announcement.
After the GPS 3 scrub, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 on 2020-10-06 carrying 60 Starlink satellites using a booster making its third flight.