Quote from: seb21051 on 01/04/2024 09:26 pmThat might mean potential for about 32 million satisfied customers by 2030? Potential, maybe, but I believe Starlink only picked up about 300,000 new users in 2023. So maybe 3 million total users by 2030. Not perhaps what SX was hoping for, but still profitable?SpaceX added a lot more then 300k in 2023They hit 1 million Dec 2022 and 2.2 Million Dec 2023That's roughly 1.2 million in a year
That might mean potential for about 32 million satisfied customers by 2030? Potential, maybe, but I believe Starlink only picked up about 300,000 new users in 2023. So maybe 3 million total users by 2030. Not perhaps what SX was hoping for, but still profitable?
SpaceX added a lot more then 300k in 2023They hit 1 million Dec 2022 and 2.2 Million Dec 2023That's roughly 1.2 million in a year
Entel Peru added to the list @ direct.starlink.comWill they add Entel Bolivia next?https://www.entel.pe/noticias/alianza-de-entel-y-starlink-permitira-conectar-a-mas-peruanos/
https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1745174665809818030QuoteThe SpaceX team sent and received our first text messages through our Direct to Cell satellites just six days after launch → https://www.starlink.com/updatesQuoteJAN 10, 2024SPACEX SENDS FIRST TEXT MESSAGES VIA ITS NEWLY LAUNCHED DIRECT TO CELL SATELLITESOn Monday, January 8, the Starlink team successfully sent and received our first text messages using T-Mobile network spectrum through one of our new Direct to Cell satellites launched six days prior. Connecting cell phones to satellites has several major challenges to overcome. For example, in terrestrial networks cell towers are stationary, but in a satellite network they move at tens of thousands of miles per hour relative to users on Earth. This requires seamless handoffs between satellites and accommodations for factors like Doppler shift and timing delays that challenge phone to space communications. Cell phones are also incredibly difficult to connect to satellites hundreds of kilometers away given a mobile phone’s low antenna gain and transmit power. Starlink satellites with the Direct to Cell payload are equipped with innovative new custom silicon, phased array antennas, and advanced software algorithms that overcome these challenges and provide standard LTE service to cell phones on the ground. As the global leader in rocket and satellite launch and manufacturing, SpaceX is uniquely positioned to rapidly scale our Direct to Cell network and will rapidly launch a constellation of hundreds of satellites to enable text service in 2024 and voice, data, and Internet of Things (IoT) services in 2025.
The SpaceX team sent and received our first text messages through our Direct to Cell satellites just six days after launch →
JAN 10, 2024SPACEX SENDS FIRST TEXT MESSAGES VIA ITS NEWLY LAUNCHED DIRECT TO CELL SATELLITESOn Monday, January 8, the Starlink team successfully sent and received our first text messages using T-Mobile network spectrum through one of our new Direct to Cell satellites launched six days prior. Connecting cell phones to satellites has several major challenges to overcome. For example, in terrestrial networks cell towers are stationary, but in a satellite network they move at tens of thousands of miles per hour relative to users on Earth. This requires seamless handoffs between satellites and accommodations for factors like Doppler shift and timing delays that challenge phone to space communications. Cell phones are also incredibly difficult to connect to satellites hundreds of kilometers away given a mobile phone’s low antenna gain and transmit power. Starlink satellites with the Direct to Cell payload are equipped with innovative new custom silicon, phased array antennas, and advanced software algorithms that overcome these challenges and provide standard LTE service to cell phones on the ground. As the global leader in rocket and satellite launch and manufacturing, SpaceX is uniquely positioned to rapidly scale our Direct to Cell network and will rapidly launch a constellation of hundreds of satellites to enable text service in 2024 and voice, data, and Internet of Things (IoT) services in 2025.
It feels very surreal that the team is now walking around the SpaceX campus texting each other from our off the shelf, and unmodified, test phones sending normal 4G LTE data packets up to our first 6 satellites and back down to the other test phones.
Texts between two phones sent through our Direct to Cell satellites in space
Green text bubbles on messages between 2 iPhones tells us that this was an SMS/MMS session rather than iMessage. So not using internet capabilities.
Just in from @edwards345: the first constellation of Direct to Cell satellites from @SpaceX will be complete THIS YEAR!
I saw a sign somewhere advertising Starlink/whateverlocalpartner text service by 2025. Auckland, I think.
