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SpaceX Launches 54 Starlink More Satellites, Lands Rocket in 100th Mission From Florida Pad (space.com) 59

SpaceX continues to expand its satellite-internet constellation with its 186th overall launch. From a report: SpaceX's 100th launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station featured a set of 54 Starlink satellites, which launched to orbit on Thursday (Oct. 20) at 10:51 a.m. EDT (1451 GMT). "With the completion of today's launch, it marks SpaceX's 48th successful Falcon 9 mission of 2022," SpaceX Space Operations Engineer Siva Bharadvaj said during live commentary. This was the 10th flight overall for this particular Falcon 9. It's first stage touched down a little less than nine minutes later at sea on the SpaceX droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas. The satellites successfully deployed into low Earth orbit a little over 15 minutes after liftoff, according to SpaceX.
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SpaceX Launches 54 Starlink More Satellites, Lands Rocket in 100th Mission From Florida Pad

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  • 54 Starlink More Satellites? Are these like upgraded satellites with better features/speed/capacity, or are they just a sign of downgraded websites with no real editors?

    • I was thinking the same thing, but posting about grammatical errors on the Internet is a losing battle...

  • Space X launches are becoming "so yesterday", even though they are full of awesomeness.

    At this point "competitors" are actually playing a different game, Space X is just doing it's thing moving a crap ton of stuff into orbit.

    But the launch piqued my interest in the Star Link capabilities. For anyone interested, here's an almost eye-poppingly amount of information about satellite bandwidth and coverage, focusing on rural.

    http://www.satmagazine.com/sto... [satmagazine.com]

    • Space X launches are becoming "so yesterday", even though they are full of awesomeness.

      At this point "competitors" are actually playing a different game, Space X is just doing it's thing moving a crap ton of stuff into orbit.

      But the launch piqued my interest in the Star Link capabilities. For anyone interested, here's an almost eye-poppingly amount of information about satellite bandwidth and coverage, focusing on rural.

      http://www.satmagazine.com/sto... [satmagazine.com]

      One of the interesting things is that are there enough people in the rural areas to support the huge expenses? Cellular towers are going up in some pretty small hamlets where I am, and 5g is being promoted for home network access.

      If I were a Telco, and I saw an area where There were a lot of Starlink Customers, I'd have a couple towers up ASAP.

      Competition, terrestrial towers, versus a lot of rocket launches. Eventually the reason for picking Starlink will be loyalty to Elon.

      • Good points. I think there's enough demand for widespread 5G and Star Link.

        And Star Link is effectively a "global standard". Portable Star Link (boats, cars, RVs, planes) and very rural (globally) is also a rather large market.

        Interesting stuff, nice to have such a reliable way to space...

      • But Starlink will also end up putting a cap on terrestrial rollouts because it puts a ceiling of only about $110 on how much anybody will be willing to pay. A small multiple of $110/mo simply isn't enough money to construct and maintain a cell tower in the middle of nowhere.
        • But Starlink will also end up putting a cap on terrestrial rollouts because it puts a ceiling of only about $110 on how much anybody will be willing to pay. A small multiple of $110/mo simply isn't enough money to construct and maintain a cell tower in the middle of nowhere.

          I'm not certain you are catching my drift.

          In PA where I live, there are cellular towers in some pretty remote villages. Like with maybe 300 people.

          When I get to the places where there is no cellular service, there is only a few camps, no one living there, So the question is - can Starlink make a profit on And here's the fun part - You obey Musk, or he just might yank your Starlink https://nypost.com/2022/10/14/... [nypost.com]

          This after he advised Ukraine to capitulate to Musk's new buddy Putin. I've had a fe

      • by EvilSS ( 557649 )
        Consumers are the icing on the Starlink cake. Starlink will make most of their money from commercial and government customers, who are used to paying astronomical prices for terrible network access in places where there are no towers, and many that will never have them. Not to mention the traders drooling over the possibility of lower latency connections to NYC once they roll out the the sat-to-sat laser links.
  • And lifting it off the launch platform with a crane to put it back in the hangar doesn't count.

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