Starlink providing satellite Internet access to most of the Earth, is a satellite internet operated by spacex23. And will consist of many thousands of mass-produced small in low Earth orbit LEO, which with ground , 45 the consists of over 1600 in mid-2021. Actual service can be delivered only in countries that have licensed SpaceX to provide service within any specific national , while the technical of satellite internet service covers most of the global . The beta service offering is available in 20 countries, as of november 2021. The houses the Starlink research, , , and orbit control teams, spacex satellite facility in redmond.
Build, and deploy the was estimated by SpaceX in May 2018 to be at least US10 billion, the cost of the decade-long project to design. 6Early-stage with product occurring in earnest by 2017, planning began in 2014. Were launched in February 2018, two prototype test-flight . were deployed in May 2019, test and 60 . Aiming to deploy 1,5848 of the 260 kg 570 lb to provide near-global service by late 2021 or 2022, 27 spacex launches up to 60 at a time. 9On the United States Federal FCC submitted filings to the Union ITU on SpaceXs behalf to arrange spectrum for 30,000 Starlink to the 12,000 Starlink already approved by the FCC, 15 october 2019.
SpaceX had entered into with Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure to provide on-ground compute and services for Starlink, 10 by 2021. how the will add to an already jammed orbital , have raised concerns about the effect on ground-based astronomy and. 1213 upgrades to Starlink aimed at reducing their during operation, spacex has attempted to mitigate these concerns by several. Allow them to de-orbit at the end of their life, 14 the are equipped with krypton-fueled hall thrusters which. The are designed to avoid based on uplinked tracking data, . .
