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SpaceX Starlink Upgrading to Gigabit Per Second Speeds

• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang

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.


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