“Gigabit Starlink Incoming? FAA Clears SpaceX for More Starship Launches”

“Gigabit Starlink Incoming? FAA Clears SpaceX for More Starship Launches”
  https://www.pcmag.com/news/gigabit-starlink-incoming-faa-clears-spacex-for-more-starship-launches
“The federal regulator says SpaceX can launch 25 Starship flights per year from Texas, up from five.”
““The FAA has determined that modifying SpaceX’s vehicle operator license supporting the increased launch and landing cadence of the Starship/Super Heavy launch vehicle would not significantly impact the quality of the human environment within the meaning of NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act),” the agency said in its Final Environmental Assessment.”
“”Each V3 Starlink satellite will have 1Tbps of downlink speeds and 160Gbps of uplink capacity, which is more than 10x the downlink and 24x the uplink capacity of the V2 Mini Starlink satellites,” SpaceX wrote in its latest progress report for Starlink.”
“The problem is that each V3 satellite weighs up to 2,000 kilograms (4,409 pounds), more than three times the current V2 Mini Optimized satellites, which weigh 575kg. As a result, SpaceX needs to rely on its more powerful Starship vehicle rather than the existing Falcon 9 rocket to send the satellites up. The last two Starship test flights were designed to carry and deploy “dummy” Starlink V3 satellites into orbit But so far, SpaceX hasn’t had the chance to do so due to the rocket’s upper stages exploding.”
Looks like the three star Air Force General showed up again at the FAA.
Lynn