News snapshots · 2021-06-30

Musk hints at early rollout of Starlink – Quick wrap


Interesting Engineering reports that Elon Musk, in his keynote address to the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, announced the rollout timeline for his low-Earth orbit high-speed broadband Internet service, Starlink. The report said Elon said by August, there will be global connectivity in everywhere “except the poles.”

Which is being interpreted as the launch coming close. Last week, company President Gwynne Shotwell stated that Starlink would go global this September, but it seems the deadline has just moved up a few weeks.

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