Enlarge / The SpaceX Starlink satellite dish partway through a teardown.
Ken Keither
SpaceX says it is building a factory in Austin, Texas to design systems that will help make satellite dishes, Wi-Fi routers, and other equipment for its Starlink satel…
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SpaceX and Dish Network are fighting at the Federal Communications Commission over Dish’s attempt to block a key designation that SpaceX’s Starlink division needs in order to get FCC broadband funding.
A SpaceX filing …
Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches five dozen Starlink satellites on August 18, 2020.
SpaceX
Russia’s legislative body, the State Duma, is considering fines for individuals and companies in the country that use Western-based satellite Internet servic…
SpaceX’s Starlink initiative aimed at beaming high-speed broadband internet from space will receive almost $900 million in federal funding to help it bring its service to rural homes and businesses in the U.S.As part of the Federal Communications Commi…
Enlarge / Ken Keiter gets ready to tear apart the SpaceX Starlink user terminal, “Dishy McFlatface.”
Ken Keiter
Engineer Ken Keiter recently came into possession of one SpaceX Starlink user terminal, the satellite dish that SpaceX nicknamed “Dishy McFl…
Enlarge / Starlink logo imposed on stylized image of the Earth.
Starlink
SpaceX Starlink engineers answered questions in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Saturday, covering topics such as data caps (which they hope to never implement), when the public…
Enlarge / Illustration of a OneWeb satellite.
OneWeb
OneWeb has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy under new ownership and says it will begin launching more broadband satellites next month. Similar to SpaceX Starlink, OneWeb is building a network of lo…
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish and equipment in the Idaho panhandle’s Coeur d’Alene National Forest.
Wandering-coder
When SpaceX opened the Starlink public beta last month, the company told users to expect “brief periods of no connectivity at all” o…
Genevieve Poblano/Digital Trends GraphicIf you’ve been following the development of SpaceX’s Starlink project to create global broadband internet, you’ll have noticed that the company is regularly launching not just individual satellites, but whole bat…
SpaceX Starlink beta users are starting to share their experiences, confirming that the satellite service can provide fast broadband speeds and low latencies in remote areas. A beta tester who goes by the Reddit username Wandering-coder brought his new…