Tag: Satellite Internet
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SpaceX Confirms Early Starlink Speed Test Results
Just before the launch of Falcon 9 in SpaceX’s twelfth Starlink mission, the company went to Twitter to offer an official update on the satellite internet service. SpaceX confirmed that the service is in private beta testing, with public testing coming later this year, and shared some general results of early speed testing. The tweets…
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SpaceX Raises $1.9 Billion in Latest Round of Funding
SpaceX has raised $1.9 billion in funding in this month alone. The funding came from around 75 investors, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing also shows that the company is selling $165 in stock, putting the total at around $2.07 billion. Reuters first reported on the SEC filing earlier…
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SpaceX Launches 11th Set of Starlink Satellites
Today, August 18, SpaceX launched 58 more Starlink satellites to build out its broadband constellation. With the 11th launch today, Starlink now has over 600 satellites in orbit. The launch once again took place at SpaceX’s launch site in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch used the first stage booster for today’s mission,…
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SpaceX Early Speed Test Results Are In: How Do They Compare to Expectations?
In early 2019, Elon Musk’s SpaceX was approved to launch 12,000 satellites into space to create a low orbit network of satellites with a goal to bring affordable high speed internet to the US and the rest of the world. When Starlink internet was first announced, SpaceX promoted it as being faster than current internet…
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Amazon is Approved for $10 Billion Satellite Internet Project to Rival SpaceX
Amazon has gotten approval from the FCC to create a satellite internet network that would be a competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink service. Marketwatch reported on documents released Thursday, showing Amazon’s request to build a network of over 3,200 satellites, called Project Kuiper. The goal of the project, Amazon has said, is to research areas that…