{"id":179731,"date":"2024-01-03T13:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/spacex-sends-6-starlink-satellites-up-with-direct-to-cell-capability"},"modified":"2024-01-03T13:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:24:40","slug":"spacex-sends-6-starlink-satellites-up-with-direct-to-cell-capability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/spacex-sends-6-starlink-satellites-up-with-direct-to-cell-capability","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX sends 6 Starlink satellites up with Direct to Cell capability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-sends-6-starlink-satellites-up-with-direct-to-cell-capability2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we recover from New Year festivities, SpaceX is already checking off things on its 2024 list. SpaceX recently shared photos on X stating that six Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capability will be launched into orbit soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceX is leveraging its experience in manufacturing [and] launching the world\u2019s most advanced rockets and spacecraft to deploy Starlink satellites with the Direct to Cell capability at scale,\u201d notes SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirect to Cell satellites will initially be launched on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket and then Starship. On orbit, the satellites will immediately connect over laser backhaul to the Starlink constellation to provide global connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we recover from New Year festivities, SpaceX is already checking off things on its 2024 list. SpaceX recently shared photos on X stating that six Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capability will be launched into orbit soon. \u201cSpaceX is leveraging its experience in manufacturing [and] launching the world\u2019s most advanced rockets and spacecraft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179731","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=179731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}