What is Starlink?
Starlink is a project of an American private company named SpaceX. It is a collection of satellites that organize in a proper formation which may be called mega Constellation as they may include 12,000 satellites orbiting the earth. The main point about this project is that satellites orbit very close to earth around 340 miles (550Kms).
Beginning Of This Project
It all first started before 16 Jan 2015
Purpose of Starlink Project
The main purpose behind the project is to raise funds for Mars exploration and Colonization. Elon Musk with his SpaceX wants to help humanity settle Mars (Red Planet) with a vision of making life multi-planetary.
Features Of Starlink Satellites
1) Array Antennas
Array Antennas
2) Ion Propulsion Systems
3) Equipped With Star Tracker
Equipped With Star Tracker
4) Autonomous Collision Avoidance System
FAQs
Q. How much will Starlink cost?
Plans are not launched yet but estimation data tells One Time cost for installation would be around $100 to $300 and most probably somewhere around $80 a month subscription.
FAQs
Q. How Starlink will work?
It is a SpaceX project which is a so-called mega constellation of thousands of satellites that will be orbiting very close to the earth 550km at some fix different orbiting shells. Each satellite is beaming internet coverage to the surface below. 4425 satellite permission is already granted from FCC out of which 300 satellites are already deployed. Total estimated satellites need to have full coverage is around 42,000 satellites.
FAQs
Q. How Fast Starlink Internet be?
The company promises about 1 gigabit per second or about top speed provided by cable and fiber companies today.
FAQs
Q. Starlink vs 5G?
A normal user uses streaming services like Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube, etc. which 4G is enough capacity to serve. 5G technology is 100 times faster than an existing 4G network, but currently, we don’t have speed problems over the 4G network rather we have coverage issues. Starlink is promising to provide great coverage of internet broadband to anywhere on earth. This is what we need right now.
FAQs
Q. When will be Starlink be availabe?
Most probably it will be available once 6 to 7 batches of satellites goes to orbit. By end of 2020 or beginning of 2021 you may expect this services in America.
FAQs
Q. When will Starlink IPO will be released?
SpaceX has no plan to launch IPO for starlink. Since this project is meant for raising funds for Mars exploration. We may expect IPO after 10 years maybe.