SpaceX to Connect its Starlink Satellite Internet Network to Moving Vehicles

Space Exploration Technologies headquartered in Hawthorne, California is an American aerospace manufacture and space transportation service founded by Elon musk in 2002.

SpaceX to Connect its Starlink Satellite Internet Network to Moving Vehicles

On 9 March 2021, SpaceX a multi billionaire company announced that they wanted to connect moving vehicles like, cars, trucks, jets, ships, and other vehicles to their Starlink satellite according to a request the company filed with the Federal Communications Commission.Starlink is SpaceXcapital-intensive project to build an interconnected internet network with thousands of satellites, designed to deliver high-speed internet to consumers anywhere on the planet.

“This application would serve the public interest by authorizing a new class of ground-based components for SpaceX’s satellite system that will expand the range of broadband capabilities available to moving vehicles throughout the United States and to moving vessels and aircraft worldwide,” SpaceX director of satellite policy David Goldman wrote in a letter to the FCC filed on Friday.

Space Exploration Technologies headquartered in Hawthorne, California is an American aerospace manufacture and space transportation services founded by Elon musk in 2002. The company goal to explore space with cost effective methods.

SpaceX did not indicate in its filing Friday whether the Starlink user terminals for moving vehicles will have a different design than the dishes currently being shipped to early customers. But SpaceX said each “ESIM,” or Earth Station In Motion, is “electrically identical to its previously authorized consumer user terminals,” with added “mountings that allow them to be installed on vehicles, vessels and aircraft.”