Tesla's CEO and SpaceX space company,
Elon musk, has made this Tuesday the first publication – a tweet – with Starlink, a new Internet broadband service that works through
a network of satellites located in the space that plans to reach 42,000 satellites and reach the entire world.
"Sending this tweet through space goes a Starlink satellite." This has been Musk's message, published on his personal Twitter account, which he has then completed with a "It has worked!".
It is expected that
Starlink is available in 2020 in the United States, after the realization of between six and eight additional satellite launches, SpaceX operations chief Gwynne Shotwell said in a press event on Tuesday and collects the Space News portal.
SpaceX, which began launching Starlink satellites in the United States in May, has plans that broadband service is available to everyone, something for which Shotwell assures that 24 satellite launches will be needed in total, which They are expected to be complete by the end of 2020.
Megaconstalations of satellites
The company has already received approval from the United States Federal Communications Commission for the
launch of 12,000 satellites, and last week I asked the International Telecommunications Union for permission to launch 30,000 ms.
With 42,000 satellites, Starlink will be the largest satellite broadband network on the planet (
although not the only one: OneWeb and Amazon, among other companies, are on the same path), but SpaceX has explained that this amount of satellites is not necessary to offer connection, but that its objective is to use this fleet to offer additional services to its customers.
Although Starlink is focused on the consumer market, it is also being used for military purposes, as part of a contract signed between SpaceX and the United States Army. In the initial tests the service has provided 610 Megabits broadband per second to a C-12 aircraft.
The Starlink service will work through terminals, which are already being manufactured at the SpaceX factor in Hawthorne (United States), although the company has not provided details about its operation or the price of the service.
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. Elon Musk now tweets using his own StarLink satellite network – LA NACION
