As you know, you can endlessly look at three things: how fire burns, how water runs, and how Starlink satellites move across the sky. Especially if their movement is filmed against the backdrop of the northern lights. Not to say that the video with the movement of Starlink across the...
More than 45% of dangerous encounters in orbit occur with American SpaceX Starlink satellites. This was reported at the head scientific institute of Roscosmos TsNIIMash. According to the Institute, a total of 10.2 thousand dangerous encounters in orbit were registered in 2021 (rapprochement at a distance of up to 1.5...
At the Black Hat Security Technology Conference recently held in Las Vegas, Lennert Wouters, a cybersecurity specialist from KU Leuven (Belgium), shared his experience of successfully hacking Starlink user equipment. True, this was not a classic software hack, since the researcher had to make a so-called “modchip”. The cost of...
SpaceX has unveiled an accessory designed to make it easier to carry the Starlink Satellite Internet Access Kit. The backpack stands out for its special shape. It is a hard case with a zipper, with shoulder straps and handles on the top and side. The creators claim that it is...
SpaceX announced two hours ago that it had successfully deployed 46 Starlink satellites into orbit, delivered by a Falcon 9 rocket. This is its 32nd mission this year – despite 31 launches in all of 2021. SpaceX turned the Falcon 9 into a true space shuttle that, on average, orbits...
The Georgian Communications Commission has granted authorization to Starlink to launch satellite internet in the country. “Today Starlink of SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, passed authorization in the communications commission in order to provide satellite Internet communications. The company applied for authorization to the Communications Commission on July 8, 2022....
SpaceX is considering launching Starlink satellite internet in Georgia. This was reported in the press service of the Communications Commission of Georgia following a meeting with a representative of SpaceX. “We had a very interesting and important meeting with a representative of SpaceX, who arrived in Georgia to get acquainted...
Astronomers are concerned about the increased brightness of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites – they create more interference with astronomical observations than previous modifications. This is reported by the SpaceNews portal, citing a speech by astronomer from the University of Michigan Pat Seitzer. Seitzer spoke about the increase in brightness of Starlink...
Satellite Internet Starlink, deployed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is finding new niches of application. There is no doubt that it will soon appear on airplanes, but even earlier it may appear on cruise ships. One of the largest cruise ship operators in the world, Royal Caribbean, has filed an application...
SpaceX is ramping up the number of subscribers to its Starlink satellite internet, and as a result, average download speeds continue to decline. Data collected for the US and Europe. It is reported that the average data download speed through Starlink in the United States is 75 Mbps, the transfer...
Elon Musk shared the first details about the new generation of Starlink satellites. The billionaire said that SpaceX already has at least one prototype of the new satellite. Such a satellite is about 7 meters long and weighs about 1.25 tons. For comparison, the first generation satellite weighs 260 kg,...
Chinese researchers from the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications of China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force said their country should have the ability to destroy SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. Ren Yuanzhen and his colleagues published an article about the potential danger of Starlink to China. In this regard, according...
A user from Wisconsin shared on the Reddit forum a Starlink network connection test done using the Ookla Speedtest tool. The data download speed from the Web was 301 Mbps, which is much more than the average in the Starlink network in the United States (105 Mbps as of the...
Yesterday, SpaceX launched 53 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, and today, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from the LC-40 launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, sent another group of Starlink satellites into orbit in the amount of all the same 53 pieces. 22 hours and 33 minutes elapsed between...
SpaceX has finally done what many have asked the company to do – it’s allowed to move sets of user equipment from one place to another. Prior to this, the “plate” was assigned to a certain location – just like that, moving from one house to another (in the case...
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) Starlink Internet satellite constellation suffered a global outage that was recorded on Saturday. Starlink uses internet satellites in low earth orbit to provide internet coverage to its users. The service managed to expand its presence to countries outside the United States in a short period...
