Musk announces Starlink in Italy, what is known so far
On the same day that a hacker attack hit servers all over the world including Italy, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, announces the arrival of Starlink, the satellite Internet connection service, in our country.
“Opportunities arise in the midst of difficulties” said Einstein and Elon Musk also seems to have made it his own.
On the same day that a hacker attack hit servers all over the world including Italy, the patron of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of Twitter, the billionaire Musk, announces the arrival of Starlink, the satellite Internet connection service, in our country.
To date, SpaceX has more than 3,600 Starlink satellites in orbit , covering 25 countries and over 145,000 users worldwide. These satellites ensure global internet access regardless of terrestrial connections. To connect, people need a specific Starlink terminal, a sort of router that receives the data sent by satellites, different from the traditional signals of earth stations.
"It's available": Musk announced on Sunday 5 February, obviously with a post on 'his' social network, the landing of Starlink in our country. Therefore, the satellite Internet connection system will also be accessible in Italy, which manages to bring ultra-broadband with very low latency practically everywhere.
Meanwhile, Musk said on Twitter this morning that SpaceX could supply the Starlink network in Turkey, after the strongest earthquake to hit the country in decades, as soon as it is approved by the Turkish government. But as Bloomberg reports, the Ankara government has rejected Elon Musk's proposal to send a broadband satellite service to the country.
All the details.
Available in Italy! https://t.co/Q1VvqV58aK pic.twitter.com/CbTQCMg7oT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2023
STARLINK ALSO AVAILABLE IN ITALY
Musk publishes the link to the site – in Italian – which illustrates the characteristics of the offer for different types of users: residential, business, camper, marine, aviation.
“Starlink is the world's first and largest satellite constellation using low Earth orbit to deliver satellite broadband internet that can support streaming, online gaming, video calling and more. Leveraging advanced satellites and user hardware along with our deep experience with both spacecraft and on-orbit operations, Starlink delivers high-speed, low-latency Internet to users around the world,” the company's website reads.
Prices? The 'residential' package, presumably intended for private users, costs 50 euros a month, plus 450 euros for the hardware.
NEW GENERATION SATELLITES LAUNCHED
And SpaceX already launched the first 54 next-generation Starlink satellites last December. The new generation Starlink satellites are the first operational in a new orbit, 530 kilometers from Earth. SpaceX has so far received the green light from the US Federal Communications Commission to launch 7,500 of the new Starlinks, out of the 29,988 planned.
THE ROLE OF THE SPACEX CONSTELLATION IN THE UKRAINE WAR
Not forgetting that Starlink played an important role in the war in Ukraine. Though Musk drew the ire of Ukrainians in October when he tweeted that Kiev should remain neutral and cede territory to Russia in exchange for a peace deal. Additionally, Musk tweeted in October that SpaceX could no longer afford to provide the service to Ukraine indefinitely, only to backtrack two days later and say it would continue to provide free Starlink to Kiev.
In late December, Ukraine signed an agreement with Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp for more than 10,000 Starlink antennas that will be shipped in the coming months.
REJECTED BY TURKEY
Finally, for one country that asks for Starlink, there is another that doesn't. Turkey declined Musk's offer to send Starlinks after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep, claiming hundreds of lives.
A senior Turkish official, who declined to be named, thanked Elon Murk for the proposal, but said Turkey had enough satellite capacity. The country has base stations that run on batteries although electricity cannot be supplied in some areas, the source told Bloomberg .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/musk-annuncia-starlink-in-italia-che-cosa-si-sa-finora/ on Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:25:17 +0000.