Elon Musk Says Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Will Be So Huge They’ll Need to be Launched With Starship
"So big that only Starship can launch them."
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is now bragging that the next generation of Starlink internet satellites are going to be so much larger than before, they'll need to be straight-up launched using the company's Starship rocket.
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Quote-tweeting a post about SpaceX informing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about "several small but meaningful updates" to the new class of communications satellites, the billionaire highlighted the size of the forthcoming fleet.
"The next generation Starlink satellites, which are so big that only Starship can launch them, will allow for a 10X increase in bandwidth and, with the reduced altitude, faster latency," Musk wrote.
It's neither the first nor the second time the South African-born tycoon has insisted that instead of deploying them on a Falcon 9 rocket as the company does now, SpaceX will use Starship to launch forthcoming generations of Starlink satellites.
This time, however, the plans seem a bit more concrete.
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