Medicine & TechnologySpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a Twitter user that SpaceX will send Starlink satellites between Earth and Mars orbit for communication.
SpaceX said that they prefer using Starship rockets for the revised Starlink Gen2 to allow satellites to enter service within weeks rather than months.
Starlink, SpaceX's internet connection service, promises high speed and low latency connection to all its users in the US and around the world. The company is ramping up its rollout to increase its area of coverage.
SpaceLink just received funding to demonstrate its relay satellite that could give the International Space Station (ISS) faster communications. It will pick up where the NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) left off.
A U.K. government agency is concerned that SpaceX's Starlink, OneWeb, and other LEO satellite-broadband systems may interfere with one another's communications.
Elon Musk’s Starlink is vying with OneWeb to put faster Wi-Fi on commercial airplanes. The satellite internet network also wants to test test their new Starlink dish in 5 US states.
As SpaceX grows its constellation of Starlink satellites for global Internet access, more and more of these space objects can be spotted across the night sky - and a superfan has developed a portal to help everyone track these satellites.
Arianespace, European launch provider, says SpaceX's Starlink complete satellite constellation could cause catastrophic satellite collisions in low Earth orbit.
SpaceX has asked the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to launch up to 42,000 satellites for the development of its Starlink system, putting pressure on its competitors. As of now, SpaceX has about 1,600 Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth.