SpaceX is planning four Starlink satellite launches by the end of 2019. This would put 240 satellites into orbit. The four launches are currently targeting: October 10 October 25 November 13 December 8 SpaceX can provide service top the USA and Canada after 360 satellites are operating in orbit. Previously SpaceX had talked about two …
SpaceX will launch two more Starlink satellite missions with current target dates of October 17 and November 4. Fifty of the sixty Starlink satellites from the May 2019 launch are still in operation and remain in their intended orbits. SpaceX will have seven Starlink launches in the first half of 2020. They will be part …
Mark Handley (UCL, University College London) has simulation showing the orbits of various SpaceX Starlink satellite constellations. There are simulations of 72, 264 and 11927 satellites. SpaceX is launching 60 satellites at a time. SpaceX has 60 production Starlink satellites in orbit now for testing.
SpaceX has successfully deployed sixty production versions of the Starlink Satellite. They are targeting six Starlink launches through the next six months. Those six launches will place 360 Starlink satellites into orbit.
Elon Musk has shown a stack of sixty Starlink Satellites in a SpaceX Falcon 9 that will soon be launched. SpaceX will be able to start operating the Starlink network with 800 Starlink satellites. It would take fourteen launches to get over 800 Starlink satellites.
SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell said that SpaceX will launch dozens of Starlink Satellites on May 15, 2019
SpaceX finished raising $273 million and has now starting raising another $500 million according to Prime Unicorn Index and the Wall Street Journal. This will be at $204 per share and a $29 billion valuation. Before 2015, SpaceX shares were below $10 per share. The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship and the Starlink satellite constellation are …
Jeff Foust reported on twitter that Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX VP of Commercial Sales, said that SpaceX would try to set a new record for launches in 2019. This would mean having 22 or more launches because SpaceX had 21 successful missions in 2018. The statement was made at a launch panel discussion at the 2019 …
Nextbigfuture has calculated how the Super Heavy Starship will make deploying the Starlink satellite network $1 to $2 billion cheaper to launch than with Falcon 9s. The Super Heavy Starship will be able to deploy over five times the number of Starlinks satellites per launch and the cost per launch will be three times less. …