SpaceX Introduces Starlink Internet Services for Private Jets - CNET

SpaceX connected Wednesday unveiled Starlink Aviation, a outer net work that volition connection in-flight Wi-Fi connected backstage jets.

Starlink, a task founded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, aims to merchantability net connections to astir anyone connected the satellite by mode of a increasing web of backstage satellites orbiting overhead. The caller work plans to complaint customers $150,000 for the hardware needed to link a pitchy to Starlink, with monthly subscriptions costing betwixt $12,500 a period and $25,000 a period for unlimited data.

The net terminals, which Starlink Aviation expects to statesman delivering successful mid-2023, tin present download speeds of up to 350 Mbps, "enabling each passengers to entree streaming-capable net astatine the aforesaid time," the institution said connected its website.

"Passengers tin prosecute successful activities antecedently not functional successful flight, including video calls, online gaming, virtual backstage networks and different precocious information complaint activities," the institution said.

Starlink is simply a postulation of astir 2,000 debased Earth orbit satellites designed to connection accelerated Wi-Fi astir the world. Earlier this year, it inked a woody to offer escaped Wi-Fi to Hawaiian Airlines passengers connected flights crossed the Pacific, including to the continental US, Asia and Australia. Carrier JSX had antecedently signed connected to usage Starlink.

SpaceX besides offers a Starlink for RVs outer net service, which is aimed astatine radical often traveling successful RVs, campers and different ample vehicles. The work costs $135 a month, $25 much than Starlink's residential service, with a onetime instrumentality interest of $599.