Profits from Starlink would help SpaceX “develop more and more advanced rockets and spaceships”, Musk said in 2019, making the company “a key stepping stone” on the path to establishing a “self-sustaining city on Mars and a base on the moon”.So far SpaceX has put 1200 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, 310 craft this year alone.The company has US government approval to launch nearly 12,000 satellites, some into higher orbits.
Starlink is “designed to run real-time, competitive video games,” Musk tweeted last year. Starlink’s latency will be trimmed again to 16ms to 19ms by mid-year. Its latency could eventually get “as low as 8ms”. “As competition intensifies these companies will be forced to look beyond regional areas and might start to encroach on the more traditional fixed broadband services in suburbia as well,” Budde said.It is expected that Starlink’s fleet of orbiting satellites will be dense enough to begin coverage in the middle of the year. The company has already established ground stations in four locations in Australia needed to make the signal robust.
Part of the reason for the scepticism is that, to date, the economics and capabilities of existing satellite internet providers have been more limited, even as their promise was hyped. Melbourne-based New Street Research analyst Ian Martin said Starlink and other satellite broadband providers won’t compete “across the wider broadband market given the in situ advantage of NBN fibre and various wireless networks.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
chrizap I have my doubts as to how successful this will be, but if they really do get latency down to 8ms that will be seriously impressive for a satellite service.
chrizap Cannot be any worse than the NBN... 4mbps upload 7km away from Melbourne’s CBD! It’s a disgrace!!!
chrizap Useful for remote areas. Too expensive for city use.
chrizap What broadband?
chrizap keep him out before he starts stealing from your government too