How Elon Musk's Starlink Launched a Satellite Space Race

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My father in law lives in rural Idaho and used to have 1.7 mbps internet. He got starlink and now he has 200 mbps. People don't understand how big of a deal this is.

Stop repeating misinformation about the Ukraine Starlink incident. Musk didn't threaten to turn OFF starlink in Ukraine. He merely refused to turn it ON in Russian-occupied Crimea, and specifically for a naval drone attack in which starlink antennas had been mounted to the attacking vehicles. Musk thought this went way beyond SpaceX's role as a private company providing commercial communication service. SpaceX was not a government or a military. He said to Walter Isaacson "how am I in this war?" Since that time, the US defense department has contracted with SpaceX for Starlink services in Ukraine, so the company is now less directly exposed.

I live in Nunavut and was paying $84 for 50gb of data at 1.5mb with upload at 512kb. I'm happy we got starlink now because I hated paying $84 for 50gb and $15/1gb.

SENDING THIS MESSAGE WITH STARLINK from rural Puyehue, Chile. This thing has changed my life.

I’m watching this via my starlink and I’ve to say it’s so much faster than my previous cable connection. The setup process is super easy and the price is okay with 50€ per month. I’ll be switching to fiber next year but for now this is my go to solution and it works flawlessly.

This is the clearest example of Visionary. Everything you led, people followed.

Starlink is excellent and it is now profitable. It's a game-changer for rural areas and developing countries where it would take years to install cable / fibre infrastructure.

Most active satellites in space right now are Starlink, almost 6,000, in just ~6 years, insane to think about. Falcon 9 is a workhorse, and reusable rockets is an innovation no one else has even reached yet so kudos to SpaceX for not just achieving it but then taking maximum advantage of that capability to launch Starlink, this is what makes America great.

Communication tools falling into the wrong hands is an issue, but weapons falling into the wrong hands isn’t?

When Starship becomes operational (reusable Starship), then SpaceX is going to have the satellite internet monopoly that no one could beat for decades to come.

Please use the international (i.e. metric) system in your videos.

Here we go again…attacking Musk because he had the vision to innovate

Amazon has 2 satellites in orbit. Two.

Its amazing what you can achieve when you are innovative and vertically integrate.

Love StarLink...StarLink, you shine like Stars..Keep it Up 👈👍😘

In couple years, every airplane (and militaries?) will have starlink, speed will be much faster, and price will be cheaper. Starlink is probably going to be most important organization ever created.

Can you use the metric system which almost every country except the usa uses? Include both if you have to

Anyone that doesn't recognise the genius of Elon Musk is delusional.

Starlink has one of the biggest moats in history.