{"id":83580,"date":"2018-10-14T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/spacex-board-member-says-starlink-prototype-satellites-are-working-wonderfully"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:47:18","slug":"spacex-board-member-says-starlink-prototype-satellites-are-working-wonderfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/spacex-board-member-says-starlink-prototype-satellites-are-working-wonderfully","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX board member says Starlink prototype satellites \u201care working wonderfully\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-board-member-says-starlink-prototype-satellites-are-working-wonderfully.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a Satellite Innovation 2018 keynote, long-time SpaceX investor and board member Steve Jurvetson made a quiet but significant comment about the company\u2019s Starlink satellite constellation efforts, stating that the first two prototype spacecraft \u2013 currently in orbit \u2013 \u201care working wonderfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Standing in contrast to recent speculation that SpaceX\u2019s Starlink project had experienced major failures with on-orbit hardware, Jurvetson may be a biased source but still has a major vested interest in SpaceX\u2019s long-term success \u2013 supporting billions dumped into a satellite constellation with no real returns in sight would serve to seriously harm his significant investments in the company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p> He would say that? Maybe, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dfjsteve?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dfjsteve<\/a> Jurvetson, early <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpaceX<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@planet<\/a> investor, told Satellite Innovation conference Oct 10, regarding SpaceX\u2019s two Starlink test sats launched in February: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pbdes\/status\/1050892707982266369\/photo\/1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/WHzJlPUEPA\">pic.twitter.com\/WHzJlPUEPA<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-board-member-says-starlink-prototype-satellites-are-working-wonderfully\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-board-member-says-starlink-...nderfully\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in a Satellite Innovation 2018 keynote, long-time SpaceX investor and board member Steve Jurvetson made a quiet but significant comment about the company\u2019s Starlink satellite constellation efforts, stating that the first two prototype spacecraft \u2013 currently in orbit \u2013 \u201care working wonderfully.\u201d Standing in contrast to recent speculation that SpaceX\u2019s Starlink project had experienced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83580","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=83580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83736,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83580\/revisions\/83736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}