Starlink and the future of internet around the Globe!
Alike us, you may have laid witness to some bright strings of light shooting across the night sky recently. Shooting stars, orchestrated drones, UFOs perhaps. While any of those things would be just as exciting, chances are that what you were really seeing was a Starlink Satellite. The constellation of satellites built by Elon Musk and his budding team at SpaceX.
What is Starlink? and how does it work?
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation constructed by SpaceX Elon Musk. The well-known aerospace company, a satellite internet constellation. It is also known as a network of satellites working together to bring internet access.
The firm is working towards building a network of 12000 satellites to provide high-quality Affordable internet for the entire planet. There are currently 420 Starlink satellites in orbit, from which, 300 were broadcast between January and May 2020 alone. As for the specs, we’ll only know how Starlink’s speed and latency figures stack up against the competing real-world uses.
However, Musk has suggested, the service could reach speeds of up to one gigabit per second with a latency of 25 and 35 milliseconds. Musk being Musk has also projected some more ambitious figures! saying that his team is aiming for sub-20-millisecond latency initially and plan to reach sub-10-milliseconds Overtime.
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A beta test partnership between the US Air Force and Starlink called Global Lightning resulted in download speeds of 610 megabits per second. So the estimates might not be all that far fetched. So fast reliable internet low latency must be expensive right well not as expensive as you might think. Starlink internet can have an upfront cost. As the system will rely on ground terminals or gateways to bring the internet into your home.
What will be the cost of the Starlink project?
Musk says these terminals look like small to medium-sized pizzas simply known as pizza boxes. Each pizza box is estimated to cost around $100 to $300. But that’s not being commented officially and it will probably be included in the monthly rental fee anyway. As for that all-important monthly fee again there have been no official numbers released. However, the president of SpaceX about the Starlink cost said during an interview is anybody paying less than $80 a month for crappy service. Nope, that’s why Starlink project will be successful because of its cost.
This has pointed many towards thinking that the Starlink service will cost around $80 and maybe even a little less comparatively. 12 to 100 megabits per second Internet plan from Viasat costs between 30 and $150 per month. And a 25-megabit plan from Hughes Net ranges from around 60 to $150 per month. As Starlink cost around $80 per month for internet speeds potentially reaching one gigabit per second sounds rather competitive to us.
What is estimate number of satellites, SpaceX will send?
Musk started Starlink as a SpaceX spin-off, In order to fund his intergalactic exploration dream-making it to Mars. Seeing as he was already in the business of sending stuff to space capturing a significant portion of the estimated 1 trillion worldwide internet connectivity. The market seemed like a pretty good place to start in 2015. Musk stated that he’d filed documents to place around 4000 satellites into low earth orbit.
However, this number quickly turned into 12000 and he may eventually be granted permission to send up as many as 30000. To put that into perspective according to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. Only 9000 artificial satellites….
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