They are already peering in Seattle, and will only be northern latitudes
for a year according to a "insider" ( there are hundreds if not
thousands of them )....
On 6/14/20 1:16 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
In case anyone was watching SpaceX put up another 58 Starlink sats on
Saturday. That puts them at almost double the number they claimed to
need to enable their "private beta". I'm sure it's underway, plus
they're running some kind of test with the US military.
All the sats except for the first batch of 60 are of the 1.0 design.
Depending on which news blurb you read, these sats all have to relay
directly through ground stations, or they have some limited ability to
go sat-to-sat via an RF link. We may find out before the end of the year.
They also stated that they c/would start the public beta when they had
~~ 800 sats in orbit. By my seat-of the pants estimation, that will be
another 4-1/2 launches from now; maybe another 3 months. Call it
September, but who knows.
I think the biggest obstacle at this point is their pizza box/flying
saucer on a stick user terminal. I heard one estimate that the build
cost for it are in the neighborhood of $1200.
I would say by the beginning of 2021, this topic will not longer be "OT".
If you want to get notification when they can service your area, go
here <https://www.starlink.com/>.
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