SpaceX engineers have nothing better than Starlink and they have a Reddit AMA

Starting Saturday afternoon PT / 3 PM ET on Saturday, a group of SpaceX engineers working on the Starlink Satellite Project will be answering questions about its improved Nothing Beta program on Reddit. The ultimate goal of the Starlink program is to provide global internet coverage from space and SpaceX launches public beta After testing last month Introducing a private beta In summer

Beta users had to purchase all StarLink ground equipment for 4,9499 and then pay a $ 99 monthly active service fee to participate in the program. An email to public beta invitees states that users can expect data rates to go from 50 Mb / s to 150 Mb / s and latency from 20 ms to 40 ms over the next few months as we expand the Starlink system. “The email also indicated that there would be no contact for a short time and that latency and data rates would improve as the company prepares to launch more satellites and install more ground equipment.

SpaceX has already been launched Of the 12,000 satellites planned for the Starlink system, 900 are on their way to lower Earth. Alan Musk, SpaceX CEO, said the company needed 800 satellites in space to provide “significant operational capabilities.”

To ask Starlink engineers questions (and you already have a queue of over 500 comments), visit the official Starlink Reddit page. AMA runs from noon to 1pm PST.