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Elon Musk says Starlink now has enough satellites in orbit to launch a public beta of its high-speed internet service

Lucky Ochola by Lucky Ochola
October 10, 2020
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 22: CEO of Tesla and Space X Elon Musk attends the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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Elon Musk’s objective of radiating high-speed internet to distant pieces of Earth utilizing circling satellites simply got a bit nearer to the real world.

SpaceX on Tuesday dispatched a group of 60 Starlink satellites, acquiring the absolute number circle to more than 700, as indicated by Ars Technica. Musk, SpaceX’s CEO, said this was sufficient for a public beta.

“When these satellites arrive at their objective position, we will have the option to reveal a genuinely wide open beta in northern US and ideally southern Canada,” he tweeted after the dispatch.

This beta would incorporate the Detroit metro region and Ann Arbor, Michigan, he said because of an inquiry.

“Different nations to follow when we get administrative endorsement,” he included.

Musk did not say exactly when the satellites were expected to reach their “target position,” and Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Ars Technica that they might not be in place until February.

Musk said in April that a public beta for the service would be up and running in the fall. He also said in May 2019 that a commercially viable “initial” version of Starlink’s service for the US would be possible with 400 satellites, while 800 would be enough for “significant” global coverage.

So it’s possible, as Ars Technica’s report noted, that the public beta will get underway as these 60 satellites get into position over the next few months.

A limited beta test of the tech began in Washington state in September, but it was restricted to the state’s military and emergency responders.

Starlink’s goal is to get as many as 42,000 satellites into orbit above Earth that beam down high-speed broadband internet to remote locations where it’s difficult to get coverage. Starlink’s website says it wants coverage in the US and Canada by the end of 2020 and “near global coverage” by 2021.

SpaceX has a strong incentive to make Starlink commercially viable. Musk said in 2019 that the project would be an important revenue stream for the company, and he suggested in September that the company would “probably IPO” Starlink in a few years if revenue grows evenly.

Not everyone is excited by the pace of Starlink’s deployments. Astronomers have repeatedly voiced concerns that the satellites could interfere with astronomical research.

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