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SpaceX tells FCC it has a plan to make Starlink about 10 times faster

SpaceX: “Small-but-meaningful updates” can boost speed from about 100Mbps to 1Gbps.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote yesterday that "next generation Starlink satellites, which are so big that only Starship can launch them, will allow for a 10X increase in bandwidth and, with the reduced altitude, faster latency." Meanwhile, upgrades to Starlink's Gen2 satellites "will feature enhanced hardware that can use higher gain and more advanced beamforming and digital processing technologies and provide more targeted and robust coverage for American consumers," SpaceX said. "These small modifications, which align with Commission precedent, do not involve any changes to the technical parameters of SpaceX's authorization, but would permit significant additional flexibility to meet the diverse connectivity and capacity needs of consumer, enterprise, industrial, and government users," the application said.

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