Elon Musk’s leading company, SpaceX, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2016 for permission to launch 4,425 satellites into orbit to bring broadband internet to every home.
There were currently more than 7,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Musk wanted to double this number. All this to realise his vision of a global Internet accessible to everyone in the world, no matter where they live.
Each SpaceX unit is the size of a small car and weighs about 400 kilograms. One satellite will cover an area of more than 2,050 kilometres and the entire fleet of more than 4,000 such devices will form a network covering the entire planet. The project is also supported by Google.
According to company representatives, the speed of the Internet should be competitive with fibre broadband. In addition, Internet access in space should be cheap. According to Musk’s plans, we would be able to connect to satellites by 2020. And this is what has been achieved
Musk is a visionary, a dreamer and a billionaire. At the age of 11-12, he sold the first computer game he created. In ten years, he has built SpaceX from scratch into a company that successfully competes with NASA in cutting-edge space. His second company, Tesla Motors, revolutionised the electric car market.
Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink, which was born in 2002, has been available in Ireland for some time. Unfortunately, not all information about it is positive for users. Find out why and important information such as the price and parameters of the service … Is it worth signing up for the service and who benefits from it?
How does Starlink Internet work?
The famous billionaire Elon Musk is known for his innovative investments. These include Tesla’s high-tech cars, PayPal’s payment system and the space company SpaceX. The latter deals with commercial space services for NASA and private companies, as well as the Internet service Starlink. This is the world’s first commercial satellite Internet service, just launched in Ireland. But is the service worth using, how much does it cost, what does it offer and why has the cost recently increased? Find out.
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Starlink is an Internet service based on a system of numerous small satellites orbiting the Earth. Their number is constantly increasing as more and more devices are deployed around the Earth to transmit wireless signals to each other and to receivers on the ground.
This type of solution requires not only a subscription to use the service, but also certain equipment. However, the strength of Starlink Internet is its high speed and almost worldwide coverage.
Availability in Ireland
Starlink satellite Internet works worldwide and, as SpaceX boasted in May 2022, the service was already available in 32 countries around the world. But Elon Musk’s Internet has expanded its reach even further and Starlink Internet is now officially available on all seven continents. Ireland is one of the countries with access to the service, and while initially the Internet was mainly available in areas away from large metropolises, it is now also available to city users. Speed and pricing unfortunately cannot be compared to 1000Mb/s connections that are being offered by Atlantek Computers LTD.
Starlink Internet offers two important and unique advantages. The first is that it covers a large part of the planet. As Elon Musk explained, as the number of satellites in orbit increases, the service will cover every corner of the planet. This means that people living in hard-to-reach areas, which traditional Internet services cannot reach, will benefit the most. It is also a good solution if our provider’s signal is limited and often interrupted for specific reasons, such as geographical conditions. At first glance, it might seem that the Internet is always ‘weaker’ and slower in these places, but in the case of Starlink this does not matter because the satellite signal is not subject to the usual obstacles.
