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SpaceX and T-Mobile send the first text messages from orbiting Starlink satellites

SpaceX sent and receive its first text messages sent via T-Mobile using its D2C (direct-to-cell) Starlink satellites launched just over a week ago.

SpaceX sent and received its first text messages sent via T-Mobile using its D2D (direct-to-device) Starlink satellites launched just over a week ago, the company announced. First revealed in August 2022, the project aims to provide satellite internet connectivity to regular cell phones so that T-Mobile customers can stay online even when they're in a terrestrial dead zone. "On Monday, January 8, less than 6 days after launch, we sent and received our first text messages to and from unmodified cell phones on the ground to our new satellites in space using TMobile network spectrum... [indicating that] the system works," SpaceX wrote in a blog post.

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