Musk's Starlink Expanding Internet Service
SpaceX Successful Launch of Another Batch of 60 Satellites Source: SpaceX/NASA More Than 1,200 Satellites in Starlink Constellation & Counting Early this morning, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink internet satellites. That brings the total in the Starlink internet constellation to more than 1200. The system promises to provide inexpensive broadband services to the globe and particularly to remote and underserved areas. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to have a threshold of 1,440 Starlink satellites deployed in low Earth orbit to deliver optimum broadband services. He has also petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for permission to launch tens of thousands of more satellites. Musk has the internet service in beta-testing along stretches of the US-Canadian border and in Germany, the UK and New Zealand. Customers can also sign up on line for future service when it becomes a