Spacex asks to operate 5 million end user terminals after the us approves amazon s rival satellite.
Elon musk satellite internet launch.
Elon musk revealed this tentative timeline in a tweet after the wednesday launch of 60 new starlink satellites.
Elon musk has launched 58 spacex internet satellites into orbit this morning in an historic mission.
On wednesday afternoon spacex sent one of.
They were blasted into space onboard a falcon 9 rocket from cape canaveral in florida in the us.
The communication satellite network spacex envisions was publicly announced in january 2015 with the projected design capability to support sufficient bandwidth to carry up to 50 of all backhaul communications traffic and up to 10 of local internet traffic in high density cities.
Spacex s starlink has over 400 satellites in orbit of a planned 40 000.
Now comes elon musk.
Elon musk s company spacex is inviting people to beta test its starlink satellites a mega constellation promising access to the internet from virtually anywhere on earth.
We now want to bring starlink internet from space to 5 million in us.
Last week it announced that trials of its space based internet platform could start within weeks.
Elon musk s other company spacex is building starlink a global communications constellation that could approach a staggering 42 000 satellites and it could be all that stands between us and a.
The 36 billion company now has over 500 satellites in orbit.
Ceo elon musk said that there is significant unmet demand for low cost global.