Latency for our Starlink customers continues to improve…especially impressive considering more than 50% of our customers use Starlink on oceangoing vessels. Average latency is currently at 35ms. It averaged 80ms at the beginning of last year.
Falcon completes its 500th overall mission! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team for making the impossible possible on the road to rapidly reusable rockets!
Every airline will install Starlink in the next 2-3 years. I will only fly with Starlink when given the choice and most business travelers are like me.
NEWS: United Airlines wishes they could have installed Starlink on all their airplanes sooner.
“We first started looking at it for our regional fleet to see if we were going to try it out. And we quickly said, ‘there’s nothing to try out here. We can see that it’s going to work."
The company went on to say: "The actual satellite terminal is much smaller and easier to set up than the ones United currently uses. It’s another great example of where Starlink is pretty incredible. It’s really well-engineered. It’s a very simple product. It’s much simpler than what we already have on the airplane; The [satellite systems that use] geosynchronous orbits have moving parts inside. The antennas track the satellites as the plane is flying. Starlink doesn’t need that. There’s no more moving parts inside the Starlink modules. It’s very modular.”
United plans to get the Starlink retrofits done within two days for each plane, but it will take years to outfit the entire fleet.
Full interview: https://t.co/67MmALbPsi
Running Starlink in a desert race car for constant communications at King of The Hammers. Was a great addition and helped take us to the finish line! Our team could hear us talking the whole race, when we pulled into the pits they already knew what to fix. @Starlink
@Suhail If you asked humans this same question, you'd get a lot of the same thing. "This question is silly, so you must have meant something else, so let me answer that question for you instead."