Elon Musk’s $70 Million Starlink Gamble Takes Heavy Fire From Opponents

Elon Musk’s $70 Million Starlink Gamble Takes Heavy Fire From Opponents

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A Starlink user terminal that will allow users to connect to the orbiting satellites. These terminals, and their usage of the 12GHz band for downlink is a point of contention between SpaceX and terrestrial service providers. Image: darkpenguin22/Reddit

At the close of last month, SpaceX started to send out invites for the beta program of its highly anticipated Starlink satellite-based internet service. Starlink uses satellites in the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to transfer data between user terminals, ground stations and internet servers to overcome the limitations terrestrial internet providers have when expanding their coverage to far-flung and hard to reach areas.