Starlink will happen in phases but the ultimate goal is to have about 8 000 satellites orbiting just 500km above the planet and the remaining 4 000 orbiting much higher up at around 1 200km.
Starlink ground transceivers. However to provide the blazing fast connection speeds starlink is promising it needs to have ground transceivers small terminals mounted on customers homes or businesses analogous to. Ultimately the number of starlink satellites is expected to increase to 12 000. The first starlink launch took place on may 23 2019 and the project. Batches of satellites continue to be sent up into orbit to work with ground transceivers with the aim of providing greater.
Starlink global high speed internet. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass produced small satellites working in combination with ground transceivers. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass produced small satellites in low earth orbit leo working in combination with ground transceivers spacex also plans to sell some of the satellites for military scientific or exploratory purposes. Starlink is a satellite constellation development project underway by spacex to develop a low cost high performance model with multiple production satellite spacecraft and customer ground transceivers to implement a new space based internet communication system.
7 spacex launched 60 satellites from cape canaveral air force station in florida bringing the total to 240. Starlink is a satellite constellation being constructed by spacex to provide satellite internet access.