SpaceX Gets Final Approval to Offer Starlink Service in Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada grated the approval last week for Starlink’s satellite broadband service.
The approval followed last month’s decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to grant SpaceX a Basic International Telecommunications Services license to offer the Starlink service.
Starlink recently opened the service for public beta testing in the United States. According to an invitation email posted on Reddit, U.S. beta testers the satellite Internet service can look forward to:
- Data speeds of 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s
- Latency from 20ms to 40ms for the next several months
- Brief periods of no connectivity at all
- Spending $499 for the phased-array user terminal, mounting tripod and router
- Paying a monthly subscription of $99.
SpaceX has launched 895 Starlink satellites as part of a constellation that will eventually total nearly 12,000 spacecraft. A number of the launched satellites are no longer functioning or have been deorbited.
“As we launch more satellites, install more ground stations and improve our networking software, data speed, latency and uptime will improve dramatically. For latency, we expect to achiev 16ms to 19ms by summer 2021,” SpaceX said in the email.
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Just what SpaceX needs, a reliable government free revenue stream!
Even if Starship isn’t used for any other mission than the deployment and servicing of the Starlink Constellation it will have justified its development financially. This is what most of the
Starship critics miss…
Those flights to the Moon, Mars, orbital tourism, etc. will all be at near marginal cost and paid for by the profits from Starlink.