During the launch of its latest batch of internet-beaming Starlink satellites, SpaceX revealed key details about the planned constellation’s capabilities, claiming that the satellites showed “super low latency and download speeds in excess of 100 Mbps.” The speed is still not as fast as SpaceX originally claimed for the constellation, but it is a bit faster than what has been shown by initial user testing.
SpaceX has ambitious plans to launch about 12,000 satellites into low orbit around the Earth to provide broadband coverage to the ground beneath SpaceX. Users of the system are to tap into the constellation using a personal antenna on the ground, described Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, as “a UFO on a stick.” Preliminary photos of the device have been leaked in the source code of SpaceX’s Starlink website.
Since today’s launch, SpaceX has placed more than 700 satellites into orbit, more than the 400 needed to provide “initial operational capability”, and close to 800 needed to provide “significant operational capabilities”. This summer, SpaceX began initial beta testing of the constellation, using Starlink to test staff download speeds. The Starlink team is collecting delayed statistics and conducting standard speed tests of the system, SpaceX’s senior program reliability engineer Kate Tais said during a broadcast today. “This means we’re testing how fast data travels from satellites to our customers, and then back to the rest of the Internet. Preliminary results have been good. ”
Ties said the download speed was more than 100 megabytes per second (Mbps), a claim that was repeated by SpaceX’s Twitter account. The statement seemed to be erroneous, although the tweet was deleted after SpaceX Specify that the download speed was actually 100 seconds per second (Mbps). Ties also said that the delay speed is “slow enough to play the fastest video online video games, and our download speeds are fast enough to stream multiple HD movies at once and still have bandwidth left.”
That sounds impressive, but it’s still not quite the gigabyte speed that SpaceX promised in its original filing to the Federal Communications Commission. SpaceX noted in the filing that it would have to deploy the first complete galaxy of more than 4,400 satellites to gain that speed. Tais also clarified that there is still a lot of work to be done with Starlink. “Our network, of course, has a lot of work in progress,” he said. “And over time, we will continue to add features to unlock the full potential of that network.”
Preliminary tests A service designed to show downloads and check upload speeds through Okla’s Speedtest.net tool, speeds up to 100 Mbps are also a bit more effective than what they show. In mid-August, Reddit users posted tests from believing beta testers using Starlink Star, achieving an average download speed of 11 Mbps to 60 Mbps. Although such speeds are lower than traditional broadband internet, they are still available in the U.S. No. In many rural areas the speed may be even faster than currently available. SpaceX hopes to launch Starlink service in rural or hard-to-reach areas where even low speeds can be an improvement over the rest.
However, the rapid pace performance will be important for SpaceX, as it seeks funding from the FCC auction to be held in October this year. The FCC is offering કંપની 16 billion to companies that “have more than six million homes and businesses in census blocks that are not fully protected by voice and broadband.” Can help bring broadband services into. And the FCC is looking for a download speed of at least 25 Mbps, with an upload speed of at least 3 Mbps.
SpaceX claims that it has recently achieved a major breakthrough with its Starlink satellites that can help with data sharing. During the webcast, Ties noted that SpaceX successfully tested two satellites in orbit that had inter-satellite links, “space lasers”, allowing satellites to transfer “hundreds of gigabytes of data” between two spacecraft. Before launching its first Starlink satellites, SpaceX said that all of its satellites will have inter-satellite links as shown recently. “Once the space lasers are fully operational, Starlink will be one of the fastest data transfer options in the world,” Tais said.
Meanwhile, SpaceX is going to open public beta testing. Interested users can sign up through the company’s Starlink website, providing their email and address to see if they are eligible for the program. In an FAQ found in the source code of the Starlink website, SpaceX said the beta testing would focus on rural communities in Washington, Washington, extending to the northern United States and southern Canada. Public beta tests should provide better real-world results than these initial beta tests, although, according to SpaceX’s original source code, users will likely have to sign non-disclosure agreements. The website’s questions state that “you cannot discuss your participation in the beta program online or with people outside your home, unless they are SpaceX employees.”
