SpaceX 'StarLink' satellite service [Starlink & Starshield at war]

[Dr Mordrid]

StarLink 21

9th flight of this booster (B1051)

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StarLink 21

Date: March 14, 2021
Time: 0601 Eastern (1001 UT)
Pad: LC-39A
Booster: 1051.9
Recovery: ASDS OCISLY
Fairing recovery: yes
Payload: 60 StarLinks

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StarLink 20

SpaceX ✓ @SpaceX
Now targeting Thursday, March 11 at 3:13 a.m. EST for launch of Starlink – taking some additional time for pre-launch checks

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1369450029174390791

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Starlink v1.0 Launch 20

Date: March 9, 2021
Time: 2158 Eastern (0258 UT)
Pad: LC-40
Booster: 1058.6
​​​Recovery: ASDS
Fairing recovery: yes

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Weather scrub last night.

Tonight Feb 15, 2259 Eastern

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StarLink 19 tonight

Date: Feb 14
Time: 2320 Eastern

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The 10 Starlink satellites going uphill with the Transporter-1 mission (SpaceX's Rideshare bulk launch service) will be placed in polar orbit, testing high latitude coverage. There's a gateway at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (~70.227° N), and rumors of tests aboard US (and Canadian?) military aircraft over the pole(s). Not to mention how high latitude communities could benefit.

Sounding like StarLink really will be like a permit to print money.

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Textbook mission, with recovery #7 for Falcon 9 booster B1049.

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StarLink 15

SCRUB: weather in the recovery zone.

Date: November 24, 2020
Time: 2113pm Eastrrn (0213 UT)

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StarLink 15

Date: November 23, 2020
Time: 2134 Eastern (0234 UT)
Booster: B1049.7 (7th flight)

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SpaceX just filed papers with the FCC,

...SpaceX seeks experimental authority for operation of one user terminal aboard each of up to five private jets while they are (1) on the ground at an airport, and (2) in flight over the United States (including its territories and territorial waters). Such authority would enable SpaceX to obtain critical data regarding the operational performance of its user terminals and the SpaceX NGSO system more broadly...

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Starlink US pricing,

After the FCC rural subsidy auction, and assuming SpaceX gets funding, covered customer's costs should be lower.

And if those revenue estimates hold up, SpaceX will have 50% more income than NASA has budget.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/27/spacex-starlink-service-priced-at-99-a-month-public-beta-test-begins.html

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service is priced at $99 per month, according to e-mail

SpaceX is expanding the beta test of its Starlink satellite internet service, reaching out via email on Monday to people who expressed interest in signing up for the service.

Known as the “Better Than Nothing Beta” test, according to multiple screenshots of the email seen by CNBC, initial Starlink service is priced at $99 a month – plus a $499 upfront cost to order the Starlink Kit. That kit includes a user terminal to connect to the satellites, a mounting tripod and a wifi router. There is also now a Starlink app listed by SpaceX on the Google Play and Apple iOS app stores.
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...Elon Musk’s company posted that form in June and, less than two months later, SpaceX said that “nearly 700,000 individuals” across the United States had indicated interest in the service.
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...The network is an ambitious endeavor, which SpaceX has said will cost about $10 billion or more to build. But the company’s leadership estimate that Starlink could bring in as much as $30 billion a year, or more than 10 times the annual revenue of its rocket business.
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Oh, my...

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/10/20/microsoft-expands-its-space-business-pairing-its-azure-cloud-with-spacexs-starlink-internet.html

Microsoft partners with SpaceX to connect Azure cloud to Musk's Starlink satellite internet

KEY POINTS

• Microsoft is partnering with SpaceX to connect the Azure cloud computing network to the growing Starlink satellite internet service offered by Elon Musk's company.

• The partnership comes as Microsoft expands into the space industry, with the company a few weeks ago unveiling a new service called Azure Orbital to connect satellites directly to the cloud.

• Azure Space and the new partnership sets up Microsoft and SpaceX to compete further with Jeff Bezos' businesses Amazon and Blue Origin, which have announced plans for similar satellite services and more.
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[Dr Mordrid]

StarLink 13 in the books.

This is >800 satellites, enough for the public beta.

Gateways being installed in Australia & New Zealand, Canada's CRTC has issued StarLink a BITS license good to 2030.