Starlink
starlink.com | Satellite Internet | Founded: 2015 | Funding to Date: $10B
Starlink is a satellite Internet constellation created by SpaceX that provides satellite Internet access. This constellation will consist of thousands of small commercial LEO (low earth orbit) satellites working with terrestrial transceivers. SpaceX plans to sell some satellites. For military, scientific research or research purposes.
The SpaceX Satellite Development Facility in Redmond, Washington is home to Starlink’s research, development, manufacturing, and orbit management departments. By May 2018, the cost of the 10-year development, construction and deployment of the SpaceX constellation project is estimated to be at least 10 billion U.S. dollars.
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Key Investors
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Founders Fund
Rothenburg Ventures
Scott Baninser
Musket Research Associates
Elon Musk
Team
Management Team
Bret Johnsen – Chief Financial Officer
Gwynne Shotwell – President
Elon Musk – Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Board Members
Antonio Gracias JD – Valor Equity Partners
Donald Harrison –
Elon Musk –
Kimbal Musk –
Luke Nosek – Founders Fund
Randall Glein – Randall Glein
Steve Jurvetson – Draper Fisher Jurvetson Management
Latest Starlink News
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1st Portuguese spaceport could soon emerge as nation grants license for launch center in the Azores (photos)
Portugal's space ambitions grow as Atlantic Spaceport Consortium secures approval to operate the nation's first launch center in the mid-Atlantic
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Chinese astronauts beef up Tiangong space station's debris shield during 6.5-hour spacewalk (video)
Two Chinese astronauts spent more than six hours outside the Tiangong space station on Friday (Aug. 15), installing a debris shield on the third spacewalk of the Shenzhou 20 mission.
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Look for Mercury in the morning sky as it hits peak distance from the sun on Aug. 19
Mercury is farthest from the sun in Earth's morning sky on Aug. 19.
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Fly me to the moon: 25 finalists chosen for Artemis 2 'zero-g indicator'
A panel of judges has selected the 25 finalists in NASA and Freelancer's global contest to design a plush "zero-g indicator" to fly to the moon with the agency's Artemis 2 astronauts.
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SpaceX sends 24 Starlink satellites into orbit on 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday (Aug. 18). It was the company's 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year.
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Think you know our solar system's dwarf planets? Test your skills with our new quiz!
Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet residing in our solar system. Try your hand at naming the others!
