Starlink, Internet Service and Software Failure
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At present, the Starlink satellite constellation possesses a combined network capacity of almost 450Tbps, with a median peak latency of 25.7 milliseconds for American customers, thanks to its strategically placed gateway sites. The company hopes to reach a stable 20 millisecond median latency soon.
A shortage of rockets and competition for launch resources appear to be putting the mega-constellation's targets in doubt A Chinese mega-constellation of communications satellites is facing serious delays that could jeopardise its ambitions to compete with SpaceX's Starlink for valuable orbital resources.
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The Guowang constellation, also known as Xingwang, is the Chinese central government’s official response to Starlink. Administered by China SatNet under the state-owned aerospace conglomerate CASIC, the project envisions a network of over 13,000 satellites providing secure, high-speed internet for civilian and military use.
"Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution," it said in a post on X. The service will be restored soon, Musk said on X. "SpaceX will remedy root cause to ensure it doesn't happen again.
SpaceX, which has long deployed its Starlink satellites from Florida, is increasingly launching the missions from California. There's a good reason.