I got a starlink in rural Georgia and I get over 120-160mbps download and 20mbps uploads. Before with local internet I got 10mbps download and 2-5mbps upload and the price was about the same.
@@themeanestkitten I can finally watch video streams in 4k now. With my old internet it could barely handle 720 p. And 360p if more than 3 people were connected to the internet.
@@keineangabe1804 I get 30-60 ping depending where the server is located. It's good better than the 90 ping I would get on good days that would go up to 300+ ping a lot.
My Starlink has been up and running in Boise Idaho for about 3 months now. It’s way better than my cable company so far. Highly recommend everyone interested start their research
@@joebloe1401 we are just dumb apes who are dwelling in our own personal problems revolving around a society we made for ourselves, waiting for a comet to come start us over again. Stop being ridiculous we need to advance rather than sit here, making our lives nothing but useless at the end of the day.
@@joebloe1401 The Satelites for Starlink are in such a low orbit that they will burn in atmosphere on their own within 5y w/o any need for extra propulsion. Its funny that they did not mention that. Kesler Syndrome mostly is related to Satelites that are on the standard orbits that are 20x-1000x higher where they can stay in orbit for thousands of years or forever.
The competition has zero chance to compete. Owning the rockets makes all the difference. Starlink’s volume drives down Spacex operating costs for every thing. Starlink gets launches at cost, which is way lower than SpaceX’s competitors can charge, even before their markup. No one else has a chance.
Cheapest ride to space will have the cheapest satellite constellation and therefore price. Everyone else will have to suffer double the initial deployment costs. The only ones that stand a chance are Blue origin if their new glen rocket ever becomes reality and big nation backed project's where cost is not a issue.
Yeah the once oceanic cable is too much of a monopoly. But I Work from home sometimes and the minutes long drop offs would not be good. Also in Oahu I have extreme internet which is about 90 dollars for 250 Mb down and 20 up. Right now mr. monopoly is the better choice. Just got to wait until Starlink is past beta phase.
@@joebloe1401 How are satellites in space which last 5 years and can deorbit and get more reliable over time, destroying the Earth? Should everyone in a rural community put up with bad internet or no internet simply because you feel bad? People like you make people want to make a city on mars in the first place to get away from the stupid on Earth.
You can send them advice that probably the reason why rocket exploding during landing is probably when fire from rocket bounce from rocket to ground it bounces from ground back to rocket making it overheat.
I don't care if it's a bubble or Starlink is not profitable. Starlink has been a godsend to my family in the rural area. I will buy every spacex/starlink stock I can. I don't care if it goes to 0, I want Starlink to succeed. correction for CNBC, @4:29 latency is not important for video streaming because of buffering. It's only important for video conferencing, calling, and gaming.
@@bindingcurve -- _"NOT an application of starlink"_ Are you sure about that? Lasers offer an even lower-latency option than fiber-optic cables. ruclips.net/video/giQ8xEWjnBs/видео.html (4:49-12:11)
@@mvmlego1212 Just read up on the actual tech papers. For long distance trading is has the potential, but don't bet on it. Relaying of moving targets may introduce unacceptable flutter.
@@TomNook. you only really need 3 systems though. Two western that compete and one china+russia+friends collab for the countries that don't like CIA and/or fair competition.
Even in many of the major cities, Starling has a great advantage ! The best reception areas, being the baren/agriculture areas . These are not the best for connection towers ! There is also a major difference in many Urban areas ! Current geography, and increasing building sizes, suggests the need for satellite connections.
I doubt it will become one of the biggest ISPs. Comcast is the largest broadband provider in the US and it has over 22 million customers. Just because 70 million home can get starlink doesn't mean they will. Starlink was made to make Space X look better by having more rocket launches. Its for cost offset purposes. Elon Musk has said it himself.
But at what cost?! The entirety of this video and you just picked up on the “coolness” of this project! It completely overshadowed by the problems it could create for the atmosphere! This is a big deal actually
they have no choice, Astronomers complain to NASA, SpaceX could lose the ability to launch from the facility, they continue to do so congress can clip their wings for good. Sometimes it's better to take the challenging route before it become unbearable
De-orbiting failed Starlink satellites is not a long-term problem. At the low altitude at which Starlink orbits, the satellites are experiencing small amounts of atmospheric drag that will eventually decay the orbit and cause the satellite to reenter and burn up, even if it has no communication or propulsion.
@ok ok The regulation they mentioned in this video would require satellites to de-orbit within 25 years. 5 years is 5 times shorter than that, and we're only talking about the worst-case scenario where SpaceX completely loses control the satellite. Which hasn't happened yet (to my knowledge) in any of the 1200+ satellites launched so far. There would not be dozens or hundreds of dead satellites in 5 years.
I’m tired of Comcast and other communication companies always sneaking in service charges. I hope satellite internet companies won’t do that and provide us refuge from the constant headaches of constantly negotiating lower rates.
@@j4genius961 -- That's true. Nevertheless, good PR is good for long-term profits, and having a transparent pricing system is certainly good for PR, especially if it sets the company apart from its competition.
@@j4genius961 Elon's companies like Tesla and SpaceX are different, in that they actually genuinely care about making the best possible product they can, and focus on pushing innovation. luckily thanks to their strategy they are way ahead of the curve. their innovative and technological edge leads to FAR better products than anyone else and in turn dominating their respective industries. they're betting on LONG-TERM benefits and returns, rather than short-term profits.
I was able to get on Comcast's internet essentials program while unemployed during the pandemic. It's only $10/month, and they just increased the speed to 100mbs. Before that I was paying way too much for internet through them.
They mention that the low latency is good for games and movies and forget to mention video/voice chat (phones). Latency means how long it takes to get there, so if I say hello on my voice chat, how long does it take for the other person to hear it (then they have to respond). Latency is not much of an issue for movies. Bad latency means you press the play button to start,,, and have to wait 2 seconds instead of 1/2 second, but from that point on the movie plays fine so long as you have the BANDWIDTH (100 meg download).
Gaming, Video conferencing, Stock market trading will get the maximum benefit from this. Science will also benefit. Remote sensor stations, Telescopes etc, stand to benefit from high throughput and low latency connections and the ability to connect from anywhere.
The part about the movie is not correct. The movie usually pre-loaded and commence or stop action is done locally. However, if the latency is good for games, than it will most likely be good for video and voice chat. The light travels faster in vacuum than in optical fiber.
It still has far higher latency than fiber optic systems. Its lower than geostationary sat internet, but it has a minimum 20ms latency, i can get 1ms - 5ms on fiber.
@@TheRealUnconnected That depends how far is the server. 1ms to 5 ms only allows light to travel 300km-1500 km at max. That means your target server is quite near you. If your location is remote, the server could also be far from you, which is the reason for higher latency.
Pag nasa city kayo then di nyo kailangan ang starlink. Especially sa metro Manila. Starlink is intended to be used in provinces and islands without net connectivity.
I got mine in rural south Alabama and it is absolutely the bomb. Averaging around 200mb down and 15 up with about 30-40 ping. Haven't even put it on a pole yet. For some one who lived here with bad internet for so long, starlink has been a game changer.
@@wenwin7038 Of course there is a possibility (tho in our lifetime a very slim one). However, Mars is a very very very very very harsh place. It's a cold, radioactive desert (Mars barely has a magnetic field, and therefore there is nothing to shield the solar wind, aka radiation). We would have to find ways to overcome the challenges Mars presents. It will not be easy. Food is the main issue, as bringing enough food for 2 years is no easy task (a transfer window to Mars only comes every 2 years. No supplies can arrive during those 2 years). For long term stays, aka a "homeland", radiation becomes a bigger problem.
@@chesterwang3070 You don't know much about Mars. Actually Mars is not ,,radioactive desert'' - its a stupid hollywood assumption, most places on Mars experience radiation levels similar to those on ISS - we live in ISS don't we? Food is not even on top 5 priorites on Mars too. Main concern is of course pressurization, oxygen and heat - heat is the number one enemy for now because we are only sending robots to Mars - and they need to survive cold martian night (temperatures as low as -80C) by warming their electronics with heaters. Second enemy as for now is martian dust which killed one of our rovers - Opportunity, and its really problematic because its toxic to humans and charged so it is attracted to metals etc.
They are putting some of the sats in polar orbits (from the north pole to the south pole covering every point in between). So unless that remote place is deep underwater/ground.... it will eventually work.
@@deadwingdomain More stupid to go and live in the woods without internet if a reasonably good and affordable way to get it exists. What's the point of going to live in the woods if you can't go on social media and post smug pics and vids showing off how cool you are living in the woods.
Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time.
@@peterbedley2719 People come here with the aim of chasing money more than knowledge and that will damage your progress, trust me. Chase knowledge first and I promise! The money will follow you just like it's following some of us now.
@@WhiteCarBlackWheels it's a separate Playlist only with after hours clips on that channel, save whole Playlist on your library (on the RUclips app) and watch when you like.
@@theOrionsarms ofc thats the first thing i tried. unless i'm seeing it wrong - the playlist hasn't been updated since mar 15 2021. they keep dropping videos but arent adding it to the playlist.
I have luckily been a beta tester sine Jan 2021 and this had been an absolute game changer. Before i was on an unreliable lte hotspot. I do get drop outs here and there but has substantially gotten better every month. Thank you so much spacex!!!!
I hope Starlink is successful. We pay about $100 per month on internet for households in Canada. I think it may change pricing in Canada in the future. Unfortunately, it takes our neighbour to force these monopoly companies to change them.
I have starlink here in the country side/farmland of Indiana, it works good when we had it on the ground but we put it on the roof and it pretty much triple our mps and download and upload speed. They need longer cable so I can go up a tree and hook it up to it
It could turn them into a trillion dollar company and that would be a good thing for space exploration. But I think they will not be the only trillion dollar company in on the game.
Falcon9 launches 60 Starlink at once. Starship will launch 400 at a MUCH LOWER cost (10x less expansive) . Starship is also designed to be reused completely at a rapid pace. Starship will completely change the game once its operationnal. I dont see how competitor will be able to compete...
Yes, Starship will make every rocket company obsolete at this point IF THEY DELIVER to the ultra low price. I think they will and we will have star trek in real life (with one main launch operator weirdly).
Other companies will use starship to deploy! Like how companies use AWS for hosting their services. (AWS was started by Amazon to fulfill their needs.)
@Motherbrain I will explain how competitors will be able to play in the marketplace. SpaceX is opening up its launch business to the marketplace. I suspect how this will play out is that SpaceX will not build the entire network up there and that it will have an infrastructure that will be owned by multiple corporations. Clearly SpaceX will be a major player in that realm. I am currently building ground level infrastructure and have plans for next generation scaled networks on the ground. Exciting times ahead.
1. Starship is not a functional rocket nowhere soon. 2. The rocket fuel is expensive, fuel makes majority of the rockets' weight, it's heavy rocket so it is sensible to use it only for the packages that fully utilizes it abilities. 3. I do not see FAA to allow to reuse rocket without proper inspection before each launch, check how airplanes are checked, they literally has some parts replaced even if still functioning good, and making functional rocket with similar % of failures hasn't been reached even for long-existing rockets. In summary: it is not going to happen, they do not event have deployment system of packages for this starship and the works on it are going very slow compared to Musk's words (see 2022-23 mars cargo missions).
The price of the dishes isnt the issue. If the dish costs 1000 usd to make, the sales price is 500 and the subcription is 100 pr month it doesn't take "a long time" to break even. It takes 6 months. The satelites, ground stations and rocket launches on the other hand :)
Check out the cost of satelites deployement, internet access prices etc. and those $500 + $100 each month is going to be definitely not enough to make it profitable, even Musk said this.
Starlink here in the Philippines would be a game changer. Our country has one of the slowest internet speeds in Asia, and probably the world. Even in our urban areas, we experience slow speeds, and I just can't imagine the speeds of those who have internet access and live in more rural areas. And then there are Filipinos who have absolutely no internet access, who live on mountain tops or on islands. That's why I was ecstatic when I heard Starlink will be operating here in 2022.
@Jeffrey Long Im pretty sure censorship isn't that much of a problem here right now. Yeah our government has some pretty undemocratic characteristics but generally, we are a democratic country. Pretty sure they'll allow starlink.
Wait a second... download an app to install the gear, but... it's ment for people who have a crappy or no connection in their area :'). Big supporter though!
@yep: just think of MH370. If every Airplane in the Future has broadband internet via Starlink. you know exactly where the plan lost connection and was going down.
I have a hydroponic farm that is highly automated and I had to rely on crappy cellular service for remote monitoring. Watching cameras was impossible remotely. Now with starlink my 6 acre farm just realised the true potential!
At the moment the Starlink satellites do not, with a few exceptions, have satellite to satellite comms, relying on ground stations. This will likely change, but until then, no it will not work in equatorial forest as there are no ground stations.
Agreed. This is the only program produced by a cable television network that I'll watch. I don't necessarily have a grudge against any of the other companies, but this is the only show that I've found to be apolitical, lacking filler, and not afraid to get into the details.
My area of interest is Starlink for RVs, especially the dish antenna that could be inside the dome for GPS reception while driving or for stationary use the lowering or foldable dish.
@Alex Berkman Yea thats cute. And in reality most people love being able to go out during the day and then spend the evening indoors with the fire going and surfing on their tablet in the sofa. Best of both worlds is the point.
How are they gona deploy hundrets of satielites over orbits of different planets/moons and about which of the solar system celestial bodies do you speak? Definitelly better option is to put 3-4 satellites on stationary orbits of those cause speed and latency is not the most important thing over mars or other planets/moons, especially because without protection against cosmit radiation those starlink networks over mars etc. would be dead after short time, even over earth planned lifetime is only 5 years.
Starlink will have no competition. Because no other company can lunch their satellites at cost with partly reusable rockets as spacex do. Like how do you match that cost reduction advantage?
@@AustinThomasPhD What? What would the argument be for doing that? Why would people want to subsidise all of internet infrastructure so that it is cost competitive with Starlink when the exact same amount of money would be even better put to use just subsidising starlink. Subsidising regular internet companies to be compete with starlink would be like spending trillions of dollars each year subsidising horse and cart companies so that they can compete with trucks, trains and cargo ships. Unless you mean subsiding the regular internet companies to build their own constellations, then that makes sense.
@Bruce wayne same speed? you joking, india is one of the worse country connectivity wise, only in few places you get good speed and by good i mean decent
4:06 - Yes, it's true that, because they orbit at a lower altitude, Starlink satellites can see less of the Earth at any one time than a satellite at 36,000 km altitude. But that is absolutely NOT the reason why SpaceX needs so many satellites for Starlink. The actual reason is simple orbital mechanics. Because SpaceX is using a Low Earth Orbit, their satellites aren't geostationary and don't remain over the same area of the Earth all the time. Each satellite is completing a full orbit of the Earth in about 95 minutes. Any single satellite is therefore only visible from a ground terminal for a few minutes at a time (about 3-6 minutes) before it passes over the horizon. In order to provide constant, continuous connectivity then, SpaceX needs enough satellites so that at least one is always visible from the ground anywhere in their coverage area. This takes A LOT of satellites.
@@leonidhadnuk9305 😂 I concur. Most companies will not incur such a significant expense and the trouble to gather trash. A good example would be Direct TV and Dish Network leaving their satellites on your when you cancel their service. Just imagine millions of starlink and it’s competitors working and non working satellites in space. How are space shuttles going travel safely during their space tours?
The biggest issue on long term is the space debris pollution as is not completely clear which is the effect that the interaction between the resulting debris and outermost layers off atmosphere is known. All this needs studied seriously.
Them being up 5 years is a good thing. It mitigates Kessler syndrome, not causes it. Because they are so low in orbit. But that's not the case for constellations proposed by other companies, that would have them in far higher orbits.
They are extremely low so like you said they arent a huge issue. They will deorbit themselves. There is also a hige incentive to not block access to your own space.
Plus each one of them has ion engine. If something has ion engine - it is not a space debris concern, because it can deorbit itself after its mission and avoid collision with other satellites or space trash.
@@graullas8981 This video did point out that those ion engines might fail at some point, or connection to sattelite might cut out. These things need to countdown their own death and deorbit themselves after 5 years even without spacex executing that command, so if they lose connection to it, it would still deorbit itself if engine works.
@@gytis156 Yes but probability of starlink failure is really low and yes being in LEO is making it even better but mainly everything that doesnt have ion engines on orbit shouldnt be launched because it cant manevour and avoid hitting something else. The only fact that starlinks have ion engines should end every argument about it being space trash.
The other thing is that technology advances in the future the need for lower orbit satellites decreases as then they can be put in higher orbit with alot less satellites. In the future they may have a space station control center of better yet a space foundry and make materials that can't be made on Earth.lighter,stronger.less likely to corrode.
If they live near a badly run city then it might be a good idea to move close to one that is well run but that obviously depends if they have the abilities to move.
It's definitely something to look into. SpaceX is by no means some perfect company - but they actually have admirable ambitions that will help humanity, and that I think is a far better reason to send your money to them than to Comcast.
Yeah I’m in Kalgoorlie on nbn and it’s way cheaper … as a senior I can’t afford the upgrade but I’m glad that the richer locals can have the Starlink option to free up nbn bandwidth … dear fast internet is like the new phone market …
Then it would be up to the governments as there would be no business to get profit of, so your governments spy on you even more and the governments have been promising cheap internet for 20 years.
When people were using credit/debit cards, elon created PayPal. When deisel and petrol engines cars market was growing rapidly ,he started tesla and now this. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
SpaceX isn’t going to stop, by interfering with ground based astronomy operations, they are, in effect, creating customers for their launch capabilities essentially “the era of ground-based astronomical observations is over, we must evolve and put our observatories in space now that reusable launch vehicles are relatively cheap and effective.” Let’s just hope they make Starlink a B-Corp when it goes public so that it maintains legal protections from their shareholders so they can continue benefiting humanity, their employees, and be mindful of their impacts to the environment and other ethical issues that arise as they grow.
I ordered one for the Beta. It's slated to come some time in July or so they say. I ordered it because the tech is cool and the profits will help SpaceX develop transportation to Mars. I have pretty good cable right now but it sure has it's share of problems often enough. I plan to run them side by side before cutting off the cable.
very minorly, some people have operated them with almost a foot of snow on top, since their satellites are much closer they can use frequency bands that pass through clouds and precipitation.
Starlink might be popular in my area just due to its price. Although we have fast internet where I live, its a monopoly in the area so prices are high.
I think the astronomers, and I love space and astronomy, are going to have to give up the ghost and accept that the commercialization of space will spell the end of ground based large scale observations. It is inevitable. But, that same commercialization should enable the construction of space-scopes more than ever at much cheaper price points.
Assembling the James Webb Space Telescope on orbit (Earth/Luna L2) with a couple charted Starships would have made it ten times cheaper and five times larger.
@@thomwescott5760 Not even that. There is a novel by John Ringo who explores building things on a massive scale. It is called "Live Free or Die". Earth has been invaded by aliens, or rather, our solar system has been and humans are being used as slave labor to mine our own world. At least to a point. A competing alien power protects some of us and it is in that, that the story grows. To get rid of the bad aliens and secure our system, the main character builds a giant array of small mirrors. Each one is only about a meter in diameter. Pretty small. But, he builds them in the millions. Along the way, they talk about how if they weren't needed for defense and industry, those some mirrors, while pretty crap on their own, collectively made the most powerful and refined telescope ever. We could do the same. Build hundreds of small cheap mirrors and fit them with a standard "sat pack" station keeping system and put them into orbit about the sun and out of the plane of the ecliptic. These mirrors would collect light and focus it on a central mirror which would then beam it back to our space observatory. This would vastly amplify our scope power at a fraction of the cost.
Im 15min from a major town with fast broadband, i have one option for Dsl and its os extremely unreliable and slow. Pay for 30mbs and rarely get above 15 when it isnt dropping out
If they are not overselling the bandwidth (which they probably will), there's only room for a few million users on Starlink. That's only an income of a few billions per year.
They are making iterations to expend the bandwidth. Plus, not everybody needs a lot in the same time. The important thing for most users is to be able to stream without buffering.
@@Daniela-pr7rz They can't raise the bandwidth for already launched satellites. And their application to the FCC only allows the current satellites. And you are wrong about just being able to stream. That's not what they are promising their users.
@@akyhne They are promising users internet in remote locations and they deliver. People with no internet and 1-20Mbts download are getting a better deal with Starlink. As for bandwidth of satellites, they will burn in atmosphere in 5 years and be replaced with ever new ones with better capabilities. They said estimated revenue of aprox $30 bill/ year in 2025. It might not be that big but obviously they expect tens of millions of customers at least.
@@Daniela-pr7rz 30 billion in revenue? Are you kidding me?! That would mean a user base of 300 million users! I suggest you do some research and some math, and you'll find they can't have much more, than a few million users.
Teardown of the dish shows that it is a giant PCB with hundreds of RF microchips. It is very expensive and bringing the cost down to below $1500 is already a big achievement. Phase Array Antenna is no joke.
@@thomwescott5760 ofcourse bad ideas also travel that's why people losses millions to scammers every month. Real friends are rare, fake are everywhere if true people unites,,then right ideas will be produced
The Satelites for Starlink are in such a low orbit that they will burn in atmosphere on their own within 5y w/o any need for extra propulsion. Its funny that they did not mention that. Kesler Syndrome mostly is related to Satelites that are on the standard orbits that are 20x-1000x higher where they can stay in orbit for thousands of years or forever.
Elon Musk for CEO of the world please! We must listen to this man and take his suggestions seriously while we have him around. People like this don't come around very often.
I don't know how it works, but you should be able to take it to another country that has coverage, set it up again and continue to use it, without extra charges, on the same plan you were using in your home country. The plan should be global. That should force mobile providers to do the same, to be able to compete.
i believe they have a plan like that but need permission from the government to operate starlink over the country even if they can already connect. starlink is banned in Russia and China but it still works.
@@MrChiefsmaster Idk. Go check his tweets. I didn’t want to memorize useless info so I forgot. Something like 2 or 3k but he said they’re reducing its cost rapidly
Not sure if it's intentional or just ignorance but they just forgot to say that even if communication is lost, Starlink satellites will deorbit naturally after 5 years due to the friction with the thin layer of air molecules in low Earth orbit.
What astronomers (at least the ones that hack piece reporters are talking to) are missing is that when Starlink funds Starship in the next two or three years optical and radio observatories in Earth and Lunar orbits will be cheaper, faster to build, and much larger than anything on Earth.
@@murkdurk8961 and this is why normal people think astronomers are just babies. Out of curiosity, what do you think you accomplish with such a comment?
Still, for supposedly being so smart and "for the advancement of humanity", most astronomers that complained have a disgusting lack of regard for the common people without access to even ADEQUATE Internet service. All they seemingly care about is the pristineness of their night sky and how it can please and benefit THEM, not others. As much as I love space, I would gladly give up the night sky if it means somewhere else in the world, a 12 years-old in a rural area has the Internet they need to join their Zoom class. When I first heard how "outraged" astronomers were about Starlink, I was abhorred that the scientific community could be so selfish.
I got a starlink in rural Georgia and I get over 120-160mbps download and 20mbps uploads. Before with local internet I got 10mbps download and 2-5mbps upload and the price was about the same.
It's for people who can't get internet any other way, If you're stuck in the middle of nowhere any internet is better than none.
@@themeanestkitten I can finally watch video streams in 4k now. With my old internet it could barely handle 720 p. And 360p if more than 3 people were connected to the internet.
Dang. Im at 35.4. Still haven't gotten mine yet. im at 10 MPS from a local telephone coop.
What is your latency? How big is your ping? Are games playable?
@@keineangabe1804 I get 30-60 ping depending where the server is located. It's good better than the 90 ping I would get on good days that would go up to 300+ ping a lot.
My Starlink has been up and running in Boise Idaho for about 3 months now. It’s way better than my cable company so far. Highly recommend everyone interested start their research
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TOO MUCH CRAP IN THE SKY ALREADY!!!
DON'T DESTROY EARTH JUST TO MAKE A CITY ON MARS!!!--VERY STUPID!!!!!
@@joebloe1401 we are just dumb apes who are dwelling in our own personal problems revolving around a society we made for ourselves, waiting for a comet to come start us over again. Stop being ridiculous we need to advance rather than sit here, making our lives nothing but useless at the end of the day.
@@joebloe1401 The Satelites for Starlink are in such a low orbit that they will burn in atmosphere on their own within 5y w/o any need for extra propulsion. Its funny that they did not mention that. Kesler Syndrome mostly is related to Satelites that are on the standard orbits that are 20x-1000x higher where they can stay in orbit for thousands of years or forever.
The competition has zero chance to compete.
Owning the rockets makes all the difference. Starlink’s volume drives down Spacex operating costs for every thing. Starlink gets launches at cost, which is way lower than SpaceX’s competitors can charge, even before their markup.
No one else has a chance.
Plus they are able to launch there satellites on test flights.
Competition won't be satellite in the future, it will be 5G
Cheapest ride to space will have the cheapest satellite constellation and therefore price. Everyone else will have to suffer double the initial deployment costs. The only ones that stand a chance are Blue origin if their new glen rocket ever becomes reality and big nation backed project's where cost is not a issue.
5g could replace all home internet for the rest
Blue Origins Kuiper does. It’s connection with Amazon makes them worthwhile competition
I preordered Starlink and I live on Maui. More competition helps customers. I have Spectrum now.
Yeah the once oceanic cable is too much of a monopoly. But I Work from home sometimes and the minutes long drop offs would not be good. Also in Oahu I have extreme internet which is about 90 dollars for 250 Mb down and 20 up. Right now mr. monopoly is the better choice. Just got to wait until Starlink is past beta phase.
@@JasonB808 Wait what's the whole internet situation in Hawaii?
TOO MUCH CRAP IN THE SKY ALREADY!!!
DON'T DESTROY EARTH JUST TO MAKE A CITY ON MARS!!!--VERY STUPID!!!!!
@@joebloe1401 How are satellites in space which last 5 years and can deorbit and get more reliable over time, destroying the Earth? Should everyone in a rural community put up with bad internet or no internet simply because you feel bad?
People like you make people want to make a city on mars in the first place to get away from the stupid on Earth.
@@joebloe1401 You have no idea what you’re talking of.
What a great video. It was a pleasure working with you guys!
I just subbed to your channel
You can send them advice that probably the reason why rocket exploding during landing is probably when fire from rocket bounce from rocket to ground it bounces from ground back to rocket making it overheat.
i checked comments to see if u replyed and would u look at that (i like ur beard btw)
@@krzysztofziomek5176 ??
You were great, great doco on Elon
I don't care if it's a bubble or Starlink is not profitable. Starlink has been a godsend to my family in the rural area. I will buy every spacex/starlink stock I can. I don't care if it goes to 0, I want Starlink to succeed.
correction for CNBC, @4:29 latency is not important for video streaming because of buffering. It's only important for video conferencing, calling, and gaming.
You might want to sort out your thoughts before you comment so they at least make some sense.
I've heard that low-latency stock-trading is also very lucrative, as well. Regardless, it really does seem like Musk struck gold with this idea.
@@mvmlego1212 That is done with equal length fiber runs going into the trading centers. NOT an application of starlink
@@bindingcurve -- _"NOT an application of starlink"_
Are you sure about that? Lasers offer an even lower-latency option than fiber-optic cables.
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@@mvmlego1212 Just read up on the actual tech papers. For long distance trading is has the potential, but don't bet on it. Relaying of moving targets may introduce unacceptable flutter.
Where I live in rural Canada Starlink is going to be a huge success
If the whole world is doing this seperately, LEO is going to be as polluted as down on the ground.
Me too, whole town of 10,000 is Intrestef
@@TomNook. you only really need 3 systems though. Two western that compete and one china+russia+friends collab for the countries that don't like CIA and/or fair competition.
Even in many of the major cities,
Starling has a great advantage !
The best reception areas, being the baren/agriculture areas .
These are not the best for connection towers !
There is also a major difference in many Urban areas !
Current geography, and increasing building sizes,
suggests the need for satellite connections.
@@snuffeldjuret There is no chance that Russia and China share one.
Starlink will be one of the biggest and coolest companies in the world!
Wish I could invest now 😪
@@studymapai Yeah I wish they would go public.
I doubt it will become one of the biggest ISPs. Comcast is the largest broadband provider in the US and it has over 22 million customers. Just because 70 million home can get starlink doesn't mean they will. Starlink was made to make Space X look better by having more rocket launches. Its for cost offset purposes. Elon Musk has said it himself.
But at what cost?!
The entirety of this video and you just picked up on the “coolness” of this project!
It completely overshadowed by the problems it could create for the atmosphere! This is a big deal actually
The Starlink network will only have bandwidth for a few million users. Not exactly breathtaking.
And what about the other billions of users?
I think it was a classy move to work with the astronomers instead of telling them to pound sand.
And something which every business should do.
Help the common people.
Acknowledging you're not the only guy in town and creating room others.. A very classy move indeed. :D
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they have no choice, Astronomers complain to NASA, SpaceX could lose the ability to launch from the facility, they continue to do so congress can clip their wings for good.
Sometimes it's better to take the challenging route before it become unbearable
@@SkashTheKitsune You take the longer route around the mountain, instead of the short route up the mountain that ends in a freefall off a cliff.
I can't tell you folks at CNBC just how much I appreciate this explanation of what Starlink is all about! Thank you so much!
ok boomer
These videos are so well made!
@@vincentlaw82 Imagine Comcast promoting future competitors for free. In 5 years Starlink will be the number 1 global internet provider.
I always get frustrated
TOO MUCH CRAP IN THE SKY ALREADY!!!
DON'T DESTROY EARTH JUST TO MAKE A CITY ON MARS!!!--VERY STUPID!!!!!
Ikr, these videos are better that CNBC actual news division.
Would like to see Updated/Current information.
3 year old information, is not very helpful !
Bonus ?
Far less bias, in the reporting.
De-orbiting failed Starlink satellites is not a long-term problem. At the low altitude at which Starlink orbits, the satellites are experiencing small amounts of atmospheric drag that will eventually decay the orbit and cause the satellite to reenter and burn up, even if it has no communication or propulsion.
how long is "eventually"?
@@Dozman01 it depends
@@Dozman01 Around 5 years for starlink sats
@ok ok The regulation they mentioned in this video would require satellites to de-orbit within 25 years. 5 years is 5 times shorter than that, and we're only talking about the worst-case scenario where SpaceX completely loses control the satellite. Which hasn't happened yet (to my knowledge) in any of the 1200+ satellites launched so far. There would not be dozens or hundreds of dead satellites in 5 years.
@ok ok I was referring to if all system fails. 5 years is the natural time it takes for the sat to burn up if the propulsion system does not work.
I’m tired of Comcast and other communication companies always sneaking in service charges. I hope satellite internet companies won’t do that and provide us refuge from the constant headaches of constantly negotiating lower rates.
Maybe not satellite internet in general, but Elon with Tesla and Starlink is gung go about no hidden fees. The cost is what you pay, period.
Companies are companies buddy, you can always trust them from seeking as much profit as possible
@@j4genius961 -- That's true. Nevertheless, good PR is good for long-term profits, and having a transparent pricing system is certainly good for PR, especially if it sets the company apart from its competition.
@@j4genius961 Elon's companies like Tesla and SpaceX are different, in that they actually genuinely care about making the best possible product they can, and focus on pushing innovation.
luckily thanks to their strategy they are way ahead of the curve. their innovative and technological edge leads to FAR better products than anyone else and in turn dominating their respective industries.
they're betting on LONG-TERM benefits and returns, rather than short-term profits.
I was able to get on Comcast's internet essentials program while unemployed during the pandemic. It's only $10/month, and they just increased the speed to 100mbs. Before that I was paying way too much for internet through them.
They mention that the low latency is good for games and movies and forget to mention video/voice chat (phones). Latency means how long it takes to get there, so if I say hello on my voice chat, how long does it take for the other person to hear it (then they have to respond). Latency is not much of an issue for movies. Bad latency means you press the play button to start,,, and have to wait 2 seconds instead of 1/2 second, but from that point on the movie plays fine so long as you have the BANDWIDTH (100 meg download).
Gaming, Video conferencing, Stock market trading will get the maximum benefit from this. Science will also benefit. Remote sensor stations, Telescopes etc, stand to benefit from high throughput and low latency connections and the ability to connect from anywhere.
The part about the movie is not correct. The movie usually pre-loaded and commence or stop action is done locally. However, if the latency is good for games, than it will most likely be good for video and voice chat. The light travels faster in vacuum than in optical fiber.
It still has far higher latency than fiber optic systems. Its lower than geostationary sat internet, but it has a minimum 20ms latency, i can get 1ms - 5ms on fiber.
@@TheRealUnconnected That depends how far is the server. 1ms to 5 ms only allows light to travel 300km-1500 km at max. That means your target server is quite near you. If your location is remote, the server could also be far from you, which is the reason for higher latency.
@@TheRealUnconnected and Starlink isnt built to compet with fiber. Its designed for areas without fiber.
I already preordered mine
Should be here by end of year
We ordered starlink and it came in 3 weeks. It could be there fast for you
@@Tryckert
My area needs more coverage before its available here
@@Tryckert when did it say it was coming? did it say a month or did it say mid 2021 to late 2021?
@@TheGrandMgM in my area it said mid 2022, I want to work as software developer freelancer and my 0.5mbps down 0.01 mbps up is stopping me
How much does it cost?
Elon Musk is not just a businessman he is a visionary and always think way ahead of his time
What about the size of his balls? Who else goes head on on so many impossible industries?
3:33 wrong rocket animation. They are launching them on a Falcon 9, not a Falcon Heavy
Good animated rocket identification skills
@@charleskayser4646 falcon 9 has no side boosters. falcon heavy has side boosters. not that hard. it's like a motorcycle vs a car.
Where are my Filipinos at?? Finally, reliable internet guys!
Sa pagkaka alam ko ibaba ang cost rate sa mga third world countries. So maybe affordable na to sa atin.
Visited the starlink to check my place sa Metro Manila, not able to process pa. Kelan kaya. Umay na telcos natin.
Pag nasa city kayo then di nyo kailangan ang starlink. Especially sa metro Manila. Starlink is intended to be used in provinces and islands without net connectivity.
I got mine in rural south Alabama and it is absolutely the bomb. Averaging around 200mb down and 15 up with about 30-40 ping. Haven't even put it on a pole yet. For some one who lived here with bad internet for so long, starlink has been a game changer.
Waiting for IPO....yes, please!
Buy google , google has a 10% stake in spaceX
@@rudasalma2031 good point
TOO MUCH CRAP IN THE SKY ALREADY!!!
DON'T DESTROY EARTH JUST TO MAKE A CITY ON MARS!!!--VERY STUPID!!!!!
Well musk has said a lot of times that Spacex will not go public and goes for ipo
@@SunKing909 he said starlink will ipo
3:34 I like how it showed the Falcon Heavy, when the Falcon Heavy hasn't been used for Starlink!
Yes,,,is there any possibility that Mars can be second homeland for humans
@@wenwin7038 offtopic?
@@wenwin7038 Of course there is a possibility (tho in our lifetime a very slim one).
However, Mars is a very very very very very harsh place. It's a cold, radioactive desert (Mars barely has a magnetic field, and therefore there is nothing to shield the solar wind, aka radiation). We would have to find ways to overcome the challenges Mars presents. It will not be easy.
Food is the main issue, as bringing enough food for 2 years is no easy task (a transfer window to Mars only comes every 2 years. No supplies can arrive during those 2 years). For long term stays, aka a "homeland", radiation becomes a bigger problem.
Ikr
@@chesterwang3070 You don't know much about Mars. Actually Mars is not ,,radioactive desert'' - its a stupid hollywood assumption, most places on Mars experience radiation levels similar to those on ISS - we live in ISS don't we? Food is not even on top 5 priorites on Mars too. Main concern is of course pressurization, oxygen and heat - heat is the number one enemy for now because we are only sending robots to Mars - and they need to survive cold martian night (temperatures as low as -80C) by warming their electronics with heaters. Second enemy as for now is martian dust which killed one of our rovers - Opportunity, and its really problematic because its toxic to humans and charged so it is attracted to metals etc.
One company's dominance over space is scary
But without that company space wouldn’t be accessibly like it is.
Wonder how China , Russia and other « unfriendly » countries feel about having a network of American satellites flying over their head
Starlink will be totally beneficial for the Caribbean and many other developing countries.
Moves to the most remote place they can find... "wait, where ma internets?"
They are putting some of the sats in polar orbits (from the north pole to the south pole covering every point in between). So unless that remote place is deep underwater/ground.... it will eventually work.
Eventually aka later this year.
People are stupid for being so attached to such trash. Live in the woods or the city, but make a choice an live with it...
@@deadwingdomain More stupid to go and live in the woods without internet if a reasonably good and affordable way to get it exists. What's the point of going to live in the woods if you can't go on social media and post smug pics and vids showing off how cool you are living in the woods.
It's a perfect combination.
Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time.
Yeah! I agree with you sir.
If you want to be successful have the mindset of the rich, spend less and invest More. Don't give up your dreams.
@@peterbedley2719 People come here with the aim of chasing money more than knowledge and that will damage your progress, trust me. Chase knowledge first and I promise! The money will follow you just like it's following some of us now.
@@michealdouglas8206 That's very correct sir!!
And that is why most of them end up losing they money to scammers.
Don't be in a haste to invest. Know what and who you are investing to and be sure that the person will deliver before investing.
i miss mackenzie sigalos and CNBC after hours...
CNBC after hours moved over to their CNBC Television youtube channel
@@ianmathenge3428 have you seen that channel? They spam like 20+ vids a day... makes more sense on this channel
@@WhiteCarBlackWheels it's a separate Playlist only with after hours clips on that channel, save whole Playlist on your library (on the RUclips app) and watch when you like.
@@theOrionsarms ofc thats the first thing i tried. unless i'm seeing it wrong - the playlist hasn't been updated since mar 15 2021. they keep dropping videos but arent adding it to the playlist.
@@WhiteCarBlackWheels for me has worked, I don't know why you see a different Playlist that isn't renewed , different regions I guessing .
That’s the same thing Negative People said about Tesla. Those other satellite Internet companies didn’t have Elon musk
Waiting on start link ipo🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
🔥🔥💯💯💯🤙🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👌🏽👍🏽
Can't wait to get starlink🤤🤤🤤
I have luckily been a beta tester sine Jan 2021 and this had been an absolute game changer. Before i was on an unreliable lte hotspot. I do get drop outs here and there but has substantially gotten better every month. Thank you so much spacex!!!!
I hope Starlink is successful. We pay about $100 per month on internet for households in Canada. I think it may change pricing in Canada in the future. Unfortunately, it takes our neighbour to force these monopoly companies to change them.
Congratulations you were only a few months late to this news. Great reporting
I have starlink here in the country side/farmland of Indiana, it works good when we had it on the ground but we put it on the roof and it pretty much triple our mps and download and upload speed. They need longer cable so I can go up a tree and hook it up to it
I'm in a valley with trees all around is why I say that last part it would help me
Great comment. Ground mounting is not going to be the best option for most folks living in the country to maximize Starlink performance.
Can’t wait to get mine!
CNBC is the best news network
Starlink turns SpaceX to a direct to consumers company. That's key.
It could turn them into a trillion dollar company and that would be a good thing for space exploration.
But I think they will not be the only trillion dollar company in on the game.
Falcon9 launches 60 Starlink at once. Starship will launch 400 at a MUCH LOWER cost (10x less expansive) . Starship is also designed to be reused completely at a rapid pace. Starship will completely change the game once its operationnal. I dont see how competitor will be able to compete...
Yes, Starship will make every rocket company obsolete at this point IF THEY DELIVER to the ultra low price. I think they will and we will have star trek in real life (with one main launch operator weirdly).
Other companies will use starship to deploy! Like how companies use AWS for hosting their services. (AWS was started by Amazon to fulfill their needs.)
@Motherbrain
I will explain how competitors will be able to play in the marketplace. SpaceX is opening up its launch business to the marketplace.
I suspect how this will play out is that SpaceX will not build the entire network up there and that it will have an infrastructure that will be owned by multiple corporations. Clearly SpaceX will be a major player in that realm.
I am currently building ground level infrastructure and have plans for next generation scaled networks on the ground.
Exciting times ahead.
1. Starship is not a functional rocket nowhere soon. 2. The rocket fuel is expensive, fuel makes majority of the rockets' weight, it's heavy rocket so it is sensible to use it only for the packages that fully utilizes it abilities. 3. I do not see FAA to allow to reuse rocket without proper inspection before each launch, check how airplanes are checked, they literally has some parts replaced even if still functioning good, and making functional rocket with similar % of failures hasn't been reached even for long-existing rockets. In summary: it is not going to happen, they do not event have deployment system of packages for this starship and the works on it are going very slow compared to Musk's words (see 2022-23 mars cargo missions).
The price of the dishes isnt the issue. If the dish costs 1000 usd to make, the sales price is 500 and the subcription is 100 pr month it doesn't take "a long time" to break even. It takes 6 months.
The satelites, ground stations and rocket launches on the other hand :)
hahahaha
Check out the cost of satelites deployement, internet access prices etc. and those $500 + $100 each month is going to be definitely not enough to make it profitable, even Musk said this.
Interesting Video! Thank You CNBC! Big fan of CNBC from India!
12 mo in the upload is 100 times better than in my country
it's has nothing to do with uploads. We are simply spraying the skies with a more efficient way.
Starlink here in the Philippines would be a game changer. Our country has one of the slowest internet speeds in Asia, and probably the world. Even in our urban areas, we experience slow speeds, and I just can't imagine the speeds of those who have internet access and live in more rural areas. And then there are Filipinos who have absolutely no internet access, who live on mountain tops or on islands. That's why I was ecstatic when I heard Starlink will be operating here in 2022.
@Jeffrey Long Im pretty sure censorship isn't that much of a problem here right now. Yeah our government has some pretty undemocratic characteristics but generally, we are a democratic country. Pretty sure they'll allow starlink.
wait till the government double tax u
Wait a second... download an app to install the gear, but... it's ment for people who have a crappy or no connection in their area :'). Big supporter though!
This is bigger than we can think internet on ever inch of earth has tons of applications
@yep: just think of MH370. If every Airplane in the Future has broadband internet via Starlink. you know exactly where the plan lost connection and was going down.
If ISPs are not worried, they should!
Sure... that is until your cell phone company hits you with data caps or overcharges
Also obviously you did not listen to all of the video as the example could not get cell reception. Think big simpleton
Starlink is best for developing countries! Big thanks to SpaceX.
the price is not tho. Which third world country would pay 99 bucks a month for internet?
Africa is waiting so excitedly for this.
I have a hydroponic farm that is highly automated and I had to rely on crappy cellular service for remote monitoring. Watching cameras was impossible remotely. Now with starlink my 6 acre farm just realised the true potential!
Can this work in a remote region like the equatorial forest ?
Yes. Eventually.
With enough satellites, yes
At the moment the Starlink satellites do not, with a few exceptions, have satellite to satellite comms, relying on ground stations. This will likely change, but until then, no it will not work in equatorial forest as there are no ground stations.
@@simondalling7489 At the moment there are barely any satellites covering that area at all, so ground stations are irrelevant.
Simon Dalling Ground station can be up to 2000km from user dish.
How and Why videos from cnbc are always informative. Keep up the good work guys.
Agreed. This is the only program produced by a cable television network that I'll watch. I don't necessarily have a grudge against any of the other companies, but this is the only show that I've found to be apolitical, lacking filler, and not afraid to get into the details.
I'm lucky to have Starlink for the last 2 weeks. Works great. I have the original Dishy. works great after a snow storm.
Elon is unbelievably futuristic
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*SPAM!*
My area of interest is Starlink for RVs, especially the dish antenna that could be inside the dome for GPS reception while driving or for stationary use the lowering or foldable dish.
When it’s available in my country I plan on getting it for my cabin.
@Alex Berkman Yea thats cute. And in reality most people love being able to go out during the day and then spend the evening indoors with the fire going and surfing on their tablet in the sofa. Best of both worlds is the point.
@Alex Berkman how are u commenting then??
Damn, I misread the title and thought it said Starkist, I was trying to figure out what the hell did canned tunafish had to do with space travel smh.
This is another example of American media punishing success.
God bless you Elon Musk.. and all of those working so hard beside you to save humanity.
Starlink is obviously gonna be the future, definitely on other planets/moons.
Especially when AI allows the satellite s to perform as a singular swarm
@@davidrice5288 AI is not required to do this, normal algorithms are eanought.
How are they gona deploy hundrets of satielites over orbits of different planets/moons and about which of the solar system celestial bodies do you speak? Definitelly better option is to put 3-4 satellites on stationary orbits of those cause speed and latency is not the most important thing over mars or other planets/moons, especially because without protection against cosmit radiation those starlink networks over mars etc. would be dead after short time, even over earth planned lifetime is only 5 years.
Starlink will have no competition. Because no other company can lunch their satellites at cost with partly reusable rockets as spacex do. Like how do you match that cost reduction advantage?
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Actually well made. Good job!!
Once New Glenn is flying, Amazon can.
@@AustinThomasPhD What? What would the argument be for doing that? Why would people want to subsidise all of internet infrastructure so that it is cost competitive with Starlink when the exact same amount of money would be even better put to use just subsidising starlink.
Subsidising regular internet companies to be compete with starlink would be like spending trillions of dollars each year subsidising horse and cart companies so that they can compete with trucks, trains and cargo ships.
Unless you mean subsiding the regular internet companies to build their own constellations, then that makes sense.
@Bruce wayne same speed? you joking, india is one of the worse country connectivity wise, only in few places you get good speed and by good i mean decent
4:06 - Yes, it's true that, because they orbit at a lower altitude, Starlink satellites can see less of the Earth at any one time than a satellite at 36,000 km altitude. But that is absolutely NOT the reason why SpaceX needs so many satellites for Starlink. The actual reason is simple orbital mechanics. Because SpaceX is using a Low Earth Orbit, their satellites aren't geostationary and don't remain over the same area of the Earth all the time. Each satellite is completing a full orbit of the Earth in about 95 minutes. Any single satellite is therefore only visible from a ground terminal for a few minutes at a time (about 3-6 minutes) before it passes over the horizon. In order to provide constant, continuous connectivity then, SpaceX needs enough satellites so that at least one is always visible from the ground anywhere in their coverage area. This takes A LOT of satellites.
If the world wants fast easy internet then it will require such a system as Starlink.
Love that story! How great for those people to be connected to the world again!
I think Musk is aware of the space debris situation and when Starship is ready it could be used to take down old satellites when they fail.
That was the first thing that came to mind. More space junk will be significant.
Ion engines are equipped to change its orbit but if that fails then something will have to capture it
Yeah RIGHT!!! He’s gonna just (simply) take them down??? He’s gonna use HIS MONEY & go to the trouble, time & expense to TAKE THEM DOWN???
PLEEASSE!!!
@@leonidhadnuk9305 😂 I concur. Most companies will not incur such a significant expense and the trouble to gather trash. A good example would be Direct TV and Dish Network leaving their satellites on your when you cancel their service.
Just imagine millions of starlink and it’s competitors working and non working satellites in space. How are space shuttles going travel safely during their space tours?
The biggest issue on long term is the space debris pollution as is not completely clear which is the effect that the interaction between the resulting debris and outermost layers off atmosphere is known. All this needs studied seriously.
Wow, what a crazy project,
haven't heard about it before!
You must live under a rock
@@masterroshi376 That's the reason I am a content creator and you are a consumer? 😃😃
Them being up 5 years is a good thing. It mitigates Kessler syndrome, not causes it. Because they are so low in orbit. But that's not the case for constellations proposed by other companies, that would have them in far higher orbits.
They are extremely low so like you said they arent a huge issue. They will deorbit themselves. There is also a hige incentive to not block access to your own space.
Plus each one of them has ion engine. If something has ion engine - it is not a space debris concern, because it can deorbit itself after its mission and avoid collision with other satellites or space trash.
@@graullas8981 This video did point out that those ion engines might fail at some point, or connection to sattelite might cut out. These things need to countdown their own death and deorbit themselves after 5 years even without spacex executing that command, so if they lose connection to it, it would still deorbit itself if engine works.
@@gytis156 Yes but probability of starlink failure is really low and yes being in LEO is making it even better but mainly everything that doesnt have ion engines on orbit shouldnt be launched because it cant manevour and avoid hitting something else. The only fact that starlinks have ion engines should end every argument about it being space trash.
The other thing is that technology advances in the future the need for lower orbit satellites decreases as then they can be put in higher orbit with alot less satellites. In the future they may have a space station control center of better yet a space foundry and make materials that can't be made on Earth.lighter,stronger.less likely to corrode.
Holy crap I wish this had been around when I was growing up in my rural ass hometown.
Great if you can afford it …
As the infrastructure and capabilities improve, this is gonna be huge for people who are fed up with living close to badly run cities
If they live near a badly run city then it might be a good idea to move close to one that is well run but that obviously depends if they have the abilities to move.
We saw them flying overhead in rural Nebraska May 7th 2021 it was awesome to see that trail of lights!
Good presentation of a new subject (at least for most of us)
It's definitely something to look into. SpaceX is by no means some perfect company - but they actually have admirable ambitions that will help humanity, and that I think is a far better reason to send your money to them than to Comcast.
I signed up in February and I am still waiting. I am in Florida and I am wondering when it will get here. SOON I HOPE...
Great idea for remote area access. However, Currently @ 4/2021 $700 equipment cost & $135p/mth for Starlink in Downunder 🇦🇺
Yeah I’m in Kalgoorlie on nbn and it’s way cheaper … as a senior I can’t afford the upgrade but I’m glad that the richer locals can have the Starlink option to free up nbn bandwidth … dear fast internet is like the new phone market …
My cousin has Starlink and he says it’s great!
Basic internet service should be free of charge. The same goes for air & water!
Then it would be up to the governments as there would be no business to get profit of, so your governments spy on you even more and the governments have been promising cheap internet for 20 years.
When people were using credit/debit cards, elon created PayPal. When deisel and petrol engines cars market was growing rapidly ,he started tesla and now this.
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Musk founded non of those companies normie
@@davidobramwinkle5590 Call it Co-Founded or at least beeing the main investor
SpaceX isn’t going to stop, by interfering with ground based astronomy operations, they are, in effect, creating customers for their launch capabilities essentially “the era of ground-based astronomical observations is over, we must evolve and put our observatories in space now that reusable launch vehicles are relatively cheap and effective.”
Let’s just hope they make Starlink a B-Corp when it goes public so that it maintains legal protections from their shareholders so they can continue benefiting humanity, their employees, and be mindful of their impacts to the environment and other ethical issues that arise as they grow.
I like this starlink ad very much.
The explanation done about Starlink is remarkably informative. Awesome video for learning about Starlink!
I ordered one for the Beta. It's slated to come some time in July or so they say. I ordered it because the tech is cool and the profits will help SpaceX develop transportation to Mars. I have pretty good cable right now but it sure has it's share of problems often enough. I plan to run them side by side before cutting off the cable.
Is the signal affected by rain?
I am using a dish for cable tv which loses signal during rain.
From what I’ve heard, it doesn’t affect it too much because they are in a way lower orbit than satellites, like Dish TV’s.
very minorly, some people have operated them with almost a foot of snow on top, since their satellites are much closer they can use frequency bands that pass through clouds and precipitation.
Starlink might be popular in my area just due to its price. Although we have fast internet where I live, its a monopoly in the area so prices are high.
It is a monopoly because of the infrastructure development costs and regulations that inhibit growth.
I think the astronomers, and I love space and astronomy, are going to have to give up the ghost and accept that the commercialization of space will spell the end of ground based large scale observations. It is inevitable. But, that same commercialization should enable the construction of space-scopes more than ever at much cheaper price points.
Assembling the James Webb Space Telescope on orbit (Earth/Luna L2) with a couple charted Starships would have made it ten times cheaper and five times larger.
@@thomwescott5760 Not even that. There is a novel by John Ringo who explores building things on a massive scale. It is called "Live Free or Die". Earth has been invaded by aliens, or rather, our solar system has been and humans are being used as slave labor to mine our own world. At least to a point. A competing alien power protects some of us and it is in that, that the story grows.
To get rid of the bad aliens and secure our system, the main character builds a giant array of small mirrors. Each one is only about a meter in diameter. Pretty small. But, he builds them in the millions. Along the way, they talk about how if they weren't needed for defense and industry, those some mirrors, while pretty crap on their own, collectively made the most powerful and refined telescope ever.
We could do the same. Build hundreds of small cheap mirrors and fit them with a standard "sat pack" station keeping system and put them into orbit about the sun and out of the plane of the ecliptic. These mirrors would collect light and focus it on a central mirror which would then beam it back to our space observatory. This would vastly amplify our scope power at a fraction of the cost.
Starlink can be game-changing for Africa
Love these mini documentaries
Cute! A bubble of iron and satellites!
Im 15min from a major town with fast broadband, i have one option for Dsl and its os extremely unreliable and slow. Pay for 30mbs and rarely get above 15 when it isnt dropping out
It's a quadrillion billion multidollar business. I think the money will be enough to send a billion colonists to Alpha Centauri.
If they are not overselling the bandwidth (which they probably will), there's only room for a few million users on Starlink.
That's only an income of a few billions per year.
They are making iterations to expend the bandwidth. Plus, not everybody needs a lot in the same time. The important thing for most users is to be able to stream without buffering.
@@Daniela-pr7rz They can't raise the bandwidth for already launched satellites. And their application to the FCC only allows the current satellites.
And you are wrong about just being able to stream. That's not what they are promising their users.
@@akyhne They are promising users internet in remote locations and they deliver. People with no internet and 1-20Mbts download are getting a better deal with Starlink.
As for bandwidth of satellites, they will burn in atmosphere in 5 years and be replaced with ever new ones with better capabilities.
They said estimated revenue of aprox $30 bill/ year in 2025. It might not be that big but obviously they expect tens of millions of customers at least.
@@Daniela-pr7rz 30 billion in revenue? Are you kidding me?! That would mean a user base of 300 million users!
I suggest you do some research and some math, and you'll find they can't have much more, than a few million users.
Just ran a sppedtest about 3 hours ago using starlink. 308 MBPS down 8 up. The service interruptions are minimal and the pings are usually in the 30s
Why is up so slow?
30 ms
Very well documentary, thanks!
I really doubt the experts are suggesting 2k for the dish 😂😂
Well, recent reports say they reduced the BOM and fab to sub 1.5K, so initial 2K would have not been far off.
Teardown of the dish shows that it is a giant PCB with hundreds of RF microchips. It is very expensive and bringing the cost down to below $1500 is already a big achievement. Phase Array Antenna is no joke.
apparently it used to be nearly 3grand to make.
I’m ready to ditch Comcast!
Its great work,, why not everyone of us from any country share our ideas,
Why? We have fiber broadband...
@@akyhne fiber broadband? I mean to have ideas from every perspective,every field,
Because with the internet, bad ideas travel just as fast as good ideas.
If U make Great Coffee . Imagine how boreing world be if everyone drink only coffee .
@@thomwescott5760 ofcourse bad ideas also travel that's why people losses millions to scammers every month. Real friends are rare, fake are everywhere if true people unites,,then right ideas will be produced
Also covers Australia. A little expensive especially given the start up costs, but its a much faster service than normally available out of town.
Moving signals from 1 satellite to another drastically increase speed
The Satelites for Starlink are in such a low orbit that they will burn in atmosphere on their own within 5y w/o any need for extra propulsion. Its funny that they did not mention that. Kesler Syndrome mostly is related to Satelites that are on the standard orbits that are 20x-1000x higher where they can stay in orbit for thousands of years or forever.
Intentionally meant to fall. They'll replace each with better, constantly.
God bless America and god bless Elon musk
Elon Musk for CEO of the world please! We must listen to this man and take his suggestions seriously while we have him around. People like this don't come around very often.
Sounds like a great way to not see the asteroids coming
I don't know how it works, but you should be able to take it to another country that has coverage, set it up again and continue to use it, without extra charges, on the same plan you were using in your home country. The plan should be global. That should force mobile providers to do the same, to be able to compete.
i believe they have a plan like that but need permission from the government to operate starlink over the country even if they can already connect. starlink is banned in Russia and China but it still works.
@6:40 Elon has already tweeted how much the dish costs them to make
and how much?
@@MrChiefsmaster Idk. Go check his tweets. I didn’t want to memorize useless info so I forgot. Something like 2 or 3k but he said they’re reducing its cost rapidly
Biniam Gaming 1,500 Dollars do be exact, that’s what he tweeted
Not sure if it's intentional or just ignorance but they just forgot to say that even if communication is lost, Starlink satellites will deorbit naturally after 5 years due to the friction with the thin layer of air molecules in low Earth orbit.
What astronomers (at least the ones that hack piece reporters are talking to) are missing is that when Starlink funds Starship in the next two or three years optical and radio observatories in Earth and Lunar orbits will be cheaper, faster to build, and much larger than anything on Earth.
yeah in the longer run, this has to be the superior alternative for astronomy.
@@murkdurk8961 and this is why normal people think astronomers are just babies. Out of curiosity, what do you think you accomplish with such a comment?
Still, for supposedly being so smart and "for the advancement of humanity", most astronomers that complained have a disgusting lack of regard for the common people without access to even ADEQUATE Internet service. All they seemingly care about is the pristineness of their night sky and how it can please and benefit THEM, not others.
As much as I love space, I would gladly give up the night sky if it means somewhere else in the world, a 12 years-old in a rural area has the Internet they need to join their Zoom class. When I first heard how "outraged" astronomers were about Starlink, I was abhorred that the scientific community could be so selfish.
This plays like a long commercial with commercials but I'm interested in starlink now.
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