The quote from SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell in United’s announcement underscores the worldwide nature of this coming connectivity: “With Starlink onboard your United flight, you'll have access to the world's most advanced high-speed internet from gate to gate...
"We're excited to team up with United Airlines to transform the inflight experience,” added Gwynne Shotwell, president and Chief Operating Officer at SpaceX. With Starlink onboard your United flight, you'll have access to the world's most advanced high-speed internet from gate to gate, and...
A nationwide rollout for satellite internet serviceStarlinkbegins later this month, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Musk made the statement after he previously mentioned that Starlink is setto exitits beta phase sometime in October. On Thursday, a Twitter useraskedwhat this might mean for U....
Passengers on United Airlines will be able to go online for free beginning in 2025. The carrier has stuck a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, eventually resulting in free in-flight Wi-Fi on all planes via its Starlink satellite internet service. Rolling out Starlink to the e...
Note that Starlink only aims to cover land, lakes and coastal waters – if you want Internet in the middle of the ocean, you will need to sign up for Starlink’s maritime service. On land this will fill in gaps in the carriers’ coverage without them having to build...
SpaceX, in the meantime, had its own problems. On July 11, the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket suffered a malfunction that left its payload of Starlink internet satellites in a lower-than-planned orbit. All 20 satellites quickly fell back into the atmosphere and burned up. ...
Why Starlink Could Solve the Digital Divide Whether SpaceX is the first to install it or not, space internet would solve a lot of earthbound problems. Many sections of the earth remain hard to reach for fibre optic cables and other necessary internet infrastructure, contributing to the so-cal...
Anonymous, 13 Oct 2023Who is the StarLink carrier for South America?The carriers I listed were on the Starlink website. You can guarantee every continent where they sell or will be selling their internet service will also have agreements with carriers to roaming onto their Sat service. Just a...
A new deal between SpaceX’s Starlink and T-Mobile called Coverage Above & Beyond promises cellular connections from anywhere, with new satellites that broadcast on T-Mobile’s mid-band 5G spectrum.
SpaceX is not a public company, it is still privately owned. Tesla, one of Elon Musk's other companies, is a public company. Musk has discussed the possibility of taking SpaceX public, or at least Starlink, which is a part of SpaceX that seeks to provide Internet to most of the Eart...