SpaceX Starlink Upgrading to Gigabit Per Second Speeds
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- Oct 17, 2024
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SpaceX has applied to the FCC to make changes to Starlink to increase communication speed from 200-300 Mbps to about 1 gigabit per second or more.
SpaceX will get the Starship flying and will launch new Starlink satellites that are about three times bigger than the Starlink version 2 mini.
SpaceX wants to lower the altitudes of satellites by about 10% (530 to about 480 km). SpaceX wants to get the satellites even closer (to less than 400 km.)
They will reconfigure and increase potential maximum number of orbital planes and satellites per plane. The planned total number of second-generation satellites will be 29,988 or less in this application. The FCC has so far approved 7,500 Gen2 satellites. SpaceX Starlink will likely eventually apply to increase the number of satellites.
New Starlink’s Gen3 satellites will improve the hardware to higher gain and more advanced beamforming and digital processing technologies and provide more targeted and robust coverage for American consumers.
They will modify how they use the frequency bands (V, E, Ka bands) to get higher communication rates.
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