Elon Musk’s SpaceX began rolling out its Starlink Interconnected Internet Network in October 2020.

The service costs $99 a month, in addition to a $499 upfront charge to order the Starlink Kit, which includes a user terminal and Wi-Fi router to connect to the satellites.

Starlink is SpaceX’s ambitious project to build an interconnected internet network using thousands of satellites, known in the space industry as a constellation, designed to deliver high-speed internet to consumers anywhere on the planet.

SpaceX has disclosed that its Starlink satellite internet service now has over 10,000 users in the United States and abroad.

“Starlinks’s performance is not theoretical or experimental…[and] is rapidly accelerating in real time as part of its public beta program”, Space X wrote in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.

The company is offering the service to select customers in the northern US, Canada and the UK.

The company has launched more than 1,000 Starlink satellites to date.

SpaceX hopes to use its satellites to potentially provide broadband internet access to approx 42 million Americans without broadband access, an estimated US $10 Billion potential market, as well as 3 billion people without internet access globally.

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