SpaceX engineers are no better than Starling’s Reddit AMA Beta

Starting Saturday at noon PT / 3PM ET on Saturday, a team of SpaceX engineers working on the Starling satellite program will be answering questions about anything better than Reddit’s beta project. The Starling project’s ultimate goal is to provide global cybersecurity from space, and SpaceX unveils the public beta test last month introducing a private beta in the summer.

Beta users had to purchase all Starling floor equipment for 99 499 and then pay a $ 99 monthly fee to actively participate. In an email to public beta invitees, users said, “Data speeds will vary from 50 Mb / s to 150 Mb / s in the coming months and delays will range from 20 ms to 40 ms when we update the Starling system.” . The email pointed out that there would be no short periods without connectivity and that the company was preparing to launch more satellites and that installing more ground equipment would improve data delay and speed.

SpaceX has already launched 900 of the 12,000 satellites planned for the Starling system are in low Earth orbit. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company needed 800 satellites to provide “significant operational capability.”

To ask Starling engineers questions (there’s already a queue with over 500 comments), head over to the official Starling Reddit page. AMA runs from noon to 1pm PST.