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SpaceX Starlink Upgrading to Gigabit Per Second Speeds

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Oct 18, 2024
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SpaceX has applied to the FCC to make changes to Starlink to increase communication speed from 200-300 Mbps to about 1 gigabit per second or more.

SpaceX will get the Starship flying and will launch new Starlink satellites that are about three times bigger than the Starlink version 2 mini.

SpaceX wants to lower the altitudes of satellites by about 10% (53…

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