{"id":113774,"date":"2020-10-03T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacexs-starlink-public-beta-testing-will-begin-very-soon"},"modified":"2020-10-03T15:22:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:22:43","slug":"spacexs-starlink-public-beta-testing-will-begin-very-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacexs-starlink-public-beta-testing-will-begin-very-soon","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starlink Public Beta Testing Will Begin \u2018Very Soon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-starlink-public-beta-testing-will-begin-very-soon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starlink Render Created By: ErcX <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErcXspace\">@ErcXspace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is looking forward to providing Starlink satellite broadband internet service globally. The company aims to initially offer connection in rural areas of the northern United States and Canada before this year ends. A total of 4,409 internet-beaming satellites will initially make up the Starlink constellation; t here are around 708 satellites already in low Earth orbit. SpaceX is Private Beta Testing the network among employees. Starlink users receive broadband service from the satellites in space via a user dish terminal that is easy to install. \u201cThe instructions are super-easy. You plug it in, and you point it at the sky, and a few seconds later you have internet. It\u2019s truly remarkable,\u201d Jonathan Hofeller SpaceX Vice-President of Starlink and Commercial Sales said in July.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starlink network is also undergoing real world use with Washington state\u2019s unit of first responders, who are helping rebuild after wildfires destroyed the small town of Malden early September. The emergency telecommunications leader of the Washington State Military Department\u2019s IT division, Richard Hall, told reporters he set up Starlink user terminals in locations that are severely devastated by the fires, to provide families broadband access that enables them to perform wireless calls and connect online. In his job profession Hall has set up a variety of satellite services, he stated that \u201cthere\u2019s really no comparison\u201d between Starlink and other networks. \u201cStarlink easily doubles the bandwidth\u201d in comparison, \u201cI\u2019ve seen lower than 30 millisecond latency consistently,\u201d he told <em>CNBC<\/em> news last week. \u2014 \u201cStarlink will be a revolution in connectivity, especially for remote regions or for emergency services when landlines are damaged,\u201d the founder of SpaceX Elon Musk said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starlink Render Created By: ErcX @ErcXspace SpaceX is looking forward to providing Starlink satellite broadband internet service globally. The company aims to initially offer connection in rural areas of the northern United States and Canada before this year ends. A total of 4,409 internet-beaming satellites will initially make up the Starlink constellation; t here are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}