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Intelsat is producing a new flat panel phased-array electronically steered antenna that enables moving vehicles to use broadband services from Intelsat’s geostationary satellites and from SpaceX’s Starlink low Earth orbit network.
SpaceX received a $70,000,000 task order in September for Starlink communications services under the PLEO framework.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched 23 Starlink satellites (Starlink-124 / Starlink 6-30) to low-Earth orbit.
Booster B1062 previously supported 16 missions, including GPS III SV04, GPS III SV05, Inspiration4, Ax-1, Nilesat 301, OneWeb 17, ARABSAT BADR-8, and nine Starlink missions.
This launch brought the total number of Starlink satellites launched to 5,514.
SpaceX has launched approximately 5,000 Starlink satellites since 2019 and is pursuing international approvals that could allow expansion to as many as 40,000 Starlink satellites in orbit.
SpaceX operates around 5,000 Starlink satellites and currently runs the largest NGSO constellation.
As of 2023-11-18, astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics counts more than two million Starlink subscribers in more than 60 countries.
Starship is critical to SpaceX's plans for deploying new Starlink satellites and for NASA's Artemis 3 lunar mission.
Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, 2023-11-20 at 2:30 a.m. PT.
This was the 15th flight for the first stage booster supporting the 2023-11-20 Starlink mission.
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed opening more spectrum to non-geostationary satellite operators like Starlink to improve broadband speeds.
The first stage booster supporting the 2023-11-20 mission previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, and multiple prior Starlink missions.
A prior SpaceX event on Friday, 2023-11-17 launched 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX targeted Sunday, 2023-11-19 for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base with liftoff targeted for 10:33 p.m. PT and backup opportunities available until 2:30 a.m. PT on Monday, 2023-11-20.
SpaceX plans to use Starship to launch full-sized V2 Starlink satellites that are more capable than the smaller Starlink satellites currently launched on Falcon 9 rockets.
SpaceX is teaming up with T-Mobile in the United States to deploy direct-to-smartphone services using upgraded broadband satellites in the Starlink constellation.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster used on the mission previously launched CRS-26, OneWeb Launch 16, Intelsat IS-40e, and five Starlink missions.
The Xpand Portfolio is powered by Starlink and offers network connectivity of up to 220 Mbps across Starlink’s international footprint.
Qatar Airways announced plans to use Starlink on 2023-10-13 and is the largest airline to do so to date, with the partnership at an early stage and no service start date specified.