{"id":140005,"date":"2022-05-31T01:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T06:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-next-generation-starlink-satellite-details"},"modified":"2022-05-31T01:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T06:22:52","slug":"spacex-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-next-generation-starlink-satellite-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-next-generation-starlink-satellite-details","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals next-generation Starlink satellite details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-next-generation-starlink-satellite-details2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed the first technical details about the company\u2019s next-generation Starlink \u2018Gen2\u2019 satellite design, confirming that it will far outmatch the current generation of satellites by almost every measure.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an onsite interview and Starbase tour with YouTuber Tim Dodd (The Everyday Astronaut), Musk \u2013 largely unprovoked \u2013 revealed that SpaceX has already built at least one functional Starlink Gen2\/V2.0 satellite prototype <em>and<\/em> shipped it to the South Texas Starship factory, where it is currently being stored. More importantly, Musk also provided the first direct specifications for the next-generation spacecraft, stating that each Starlink V2.0 satellite will weigh about 1.25 tons (~2750 lb), measure about seven meters (~23 ft) long, and be almost an order of magnitude more capable than the \u201cStarlink 1\u201d satellites they\u2019ll ultimately supersede.<\/p>\n<p>Almost ten months after SpaceX first revealed its updated plans for a next-generation, 30,000-satellite constellation, those details have confirmed a few <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-next-generation-starlink-satellites\/\" target=\"_blank\">key points of speculation<\/a> about the future of Starlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed the first technical details about the company\u2019s next-generation Starlink \u2018Gen2\u2019 satellite design, confirming that it will far outmatch the current generation of satellites by almost every measure. Speaking in an onsite interview and Starbase tour with YouTuber Tim Dodd (The Everyday Astronaut), Musk \u2013 largely unprovoked \u2013 revealed that [\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-140005","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\/140005","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=140005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}