The dream of accessing the internet no matter where you live might become a reality sooner than you might think. In 2015, SpaceX, the company owned by technology billionaire Elon Musk, announced it was developing a service called Starlink. But what is Starlink, exactly? Keep reading as we r...
Mashable's Jennimai Nguyen answers the most pressing questions about SpaceX's internet system, how it all really works, and how to sign up.
Starlink primarily focuses on delivering high-speed, low-latency broadband internet in remote and rural locations globally. Learn where it's available, how much it costs, and everything else there is to know about it.
Starlink currently provides service to 36 countries with limited coverage areas. In the United States, the company plans to expand coverage to the rest of the continental U.S. by the end of 2023. Although a few countries, including Pakistan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, are marked as "Comin...
So what is Starlink, and how will it make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire? Starlink can bring broadband internet across the globe—along with loads of money for SpaceX Starlink is a broadband internet service, specializing in the expansion of coverage to rural and remote communities....
Starlink was originally announced by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (of Tesla renown) in 2015. Since then, the program haslaunched close to 2,000 satellites, with more planned. In the end, Musk wants to have several thousand satellites circling in low Earth orbit to communicate with all of Starlink’...
Starlink is a network of satellites that provide internet. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), working in combination with ground transceivers.It’s being built by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s aerospace company. The satellite network ...
What is Starlink Starlink is a network of satellites owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX company and is what is responsible for the line of lights we’ve been seeing lately in the New York sky. If you're excited to catch a glimpse of the Starlink satellites in action, a live map showing thei...
Chinese Note Verbale helpfully points out, Article VI of the Treaty also makes it very clear that nations are responsible for the activities of their nationals. Thus, the United States is responsible for what the Chinese consider the potentially dangerous phenomena that is Elon Musk’s Starlink. ...
Elon Musk has said multiple times that Earth's orbit is not the end destination for SpaceX. He intends to go past the moon, deliver astronauts to Mars and safely return them. SpaceX's next step is a large rocket called Starship, which would have more than double the thrust of Falcon ...