Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. (credit: Starlink) Starlink has replaced its user terminal with a new model that’s smaller and cheaper to produce, and the company updated the Wi-Fi router that ships in hardware kits sent to new subscribers. The $499 price that new Starlink users must pay for hardware is unchanged. […]
Enlarge / The SpaceX Starlink satellite dish partway through a teardown. (credit: Ken Keither) SpaceX says it is building a factory in Austin, Texas, to design systems that will help make satellite dishes, Wi-Fi routers, and other equipment for its Starlink satellite broadband network. The news comes from a job posting for an automation and […]
Ranked Ken Keiter lately came into possession of a single SpaceX Starlink consumer terminalthe satellite dish which SpaceX filmed”Dishy McFlatface.” But rather than plugging it and receiving Net access in SpaceX’s low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites, Keiter chose to shoot Dishy aside to find out what is inside. The teardown procedure destroyed parts of the gadget. “I’d […]