Sujet : “Waiting for Faster Starlink? Musk Shares Ambitious Timeline for Next-Gen Satellites”
De : lynnmcguire5 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Lynn McGuire)
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“Waiting for Faster Starlink? Musk Shares Ambitious Timeline for Next-Gen Satellites”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-next-gen-v3-starlink-satellites-six-to-nine-months“Elon Musk's predictions don't always age well, but that isn't stopping him from claiming that SpaceX will launch the first next-generation “V3” Starlink satellites within six to nine months.”
"Musk posted the timeline when talking about his ongoing effort to reduce Starlink latency to under 20 milliseconds. “With the version 3 Starlink satellites, which start launching on Starship in 6 to 9 months, we should be able to get latency below 20ms,” Musk tweeted.”
“That's an ambitious timeline since SpaceX plans on launching the V3 satellites using its Starship vehicle. It remains in the testing phases and has yet to complete a successful space mission.”
The new v3 satellites are the size of Boeing 737 when unfurled. I suspect that they take hundreds of kilowatts of power so there are huge solar panels. We may be able to see them since they will be at 350 km instead of 550 km to drop the latency from 22 ms to 5 ms. Plus there are 30,000 v3 satellites planned.
Lynn