SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, plans to build an interconnected network of about 12,000 small satellites, to beam high-speed internet to anywhere in the world. It claims the latency should be between 25ms and 35ms. That should be fast enough for most internet tasks, including gaming. Download speeds should also be pretty quick, at about 1Gbps. By comparison, the current satellite internet service offers download speeds of up to 25Mbps. However, its latency speeds are much slower at about 600ms. This project is called Starlink Satellite.
VisorSat:
After SpaceX launched its first official set of Starlink satellites in May 2019.. Many astronomers said “how bright the new objects were”. On Friday at 1:12 a.m, one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets launched a new batch of them. The satellites are a new “VisorSat” variety to make them less shiny to the ground and especially to astronomers’ telescopes.
Ground Transceiver System
In addition to getting the satellites in orbit, SpaceX will need to build a vast system of ground stations and affordable terminals if it is going to connect consumers directly to its network. So all of these satellites will need transceivers on Earth to send and receive data. Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Socionext Inc. have built a new one to work with the next generation of Internet satellites.
The new transceiver, designed for space internet technology, was developed at Kenichi Okada’s lab at Tokyo Tech and presented this month at the virtual IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, the new device has a number of improvements on both the transmitting and receiving ends of the business.
“Get updates on Starlink Satellite news and service availability in your area,” the website reads, with a submission form for an email address and zip code. The form allows prospective customers to apply for updates and access to a public beta test of the Starlink service.
Source: Starlink
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