{"id":118878,"date":"2021-01-25T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/latest-starlink-satellites-equipped-with-laser-communications-musk-confirms"},"modified":"2021-01-25T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:22:17","slug":"latest-starlink-satellites-equipped-with-laser-communications-musk-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/latest-starlink-satellites-equipped-with-laser-communications-musk-confirms","title":{"rendered":"Latest Starlink Satellites Equipped with Laser Communications, Musk Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/latest-starlink-satellites-equipped-with-laser-communications-musk-confirms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest Starlink satellites launched on Jan. 24 are equipped with laser links, and all Starlink satellites launched next year will be equipped with laser inter-satellite links, Elon Musk, <b>SpaceX<\/b> chief engineer confirmed on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll sats launched next year will have laser links. Only our polar sats have lasers this year and are v [version] 0.9,\u201d Musk tweeted on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A Twitter user noticed a difference in a photo of the stack of 10 Starlink satellites deployed on Sunday\u2019s Transporter-1 rideshare mission, and asked Musk if an object that looked like a black pipe was lasers, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1353408098342326276?s=20\">confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Starlink satellites launched on Jan. 24 are equipped with laser links, and all Starlink satellites launched next year will be equipped with laser inter-satellite links, Elon Musk, SpaceX chief engineer confirmed on Twitter. \u201cAll sats launched next year will have laser links. Only our polar sats have lasers this year and are v [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118878","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\/118878","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\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}