Starlink for yachts and large boats costs $5,000 per month plus $10,000 for equipment

SpaceX is expanding Starlink’s internet service to oceans, rivers and lakes – at a high cost.

Starlink Maritime is now here and the company is targeting superyacht owners, oil rigs and merchant vessels as potential customers.

This service has an upfront hardware fee of $10,000 for two ‘rugged’ Starlink platters and regular fees will run up to $5,000 per month.

In comparison, space-based internet costs $110 per month with a one-time equipment cost of $599 for residential customers; it is also available for business and RV.

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SpaceX projects maritime performance speeds of 100-350Mbps down and 20-40Mbps up. Pictured is one of the satellites attached to the ship

Starlink Maritime currently only extends to waters around North America, Europe and Australia.

In the fourth quarter of this year, the company plans to expand that coverage to the wider oceans of the Northern Hemisphere, with plans to expand to all of the world’s oceans in the first quarter of 2023.

The company projects maritime performance speeds of 100-350Mbps down and 20-40Mbps up on its website.

Twitter user Whole Mars Catalog wrote that maritime services are ‘the exact same thing as a residential Starlink but on a boat but priced 50x more, smart vertical pricing’ and tagged SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

Musk replied saying: ‘No, this is a high performance dual terminal, which is essential for maintaining connection in choppy seas & major storms.’

‘Still a premium price, but much cheaper & faster than the alternatives.

Elon Musk’s company released a video showing a side-by-side landing of a SpaceX rocket using unnamed internet services (left) and Starlink (right)

SpaceX has launched approximately 2,700 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit and has more than 400,000 subscribers worldwide. Pictured is Musk’s reply to a tweet about the cost of Starlink Maritime and its technical specifications

‘SpaceX pays $150k/month for much worse connection to our ship!’

In a side-by-side comparison of live video footage taken aboard the SpaceX drone, there’s a stark difference between footage shot on Starlink Maritime versus the unnamed service on the left that appears to cost Musk’s company $150,000 (the case study sheet they released lists as $165,000). ).

‘Prior to Starlink Maritime, VSAT’s 1-2 second latency would have caused lag and delayed feedback from gigabyte telemetry, closed-circuit television (CCTV), and navigation data streaming from Droneships,’ the company claims.

Musk, pictured above at the Met Gala in New York, explained the technical details and costs of Starlink Maritime on Twitter

VSAT refers to a very small aperture terminal, which is a type of satellite communication system.

‘With a 50ms latency, Starlink enables greater awareness of offshore systems, empowering operators to make the most informed decisions.

‘In addition to the latency challenges, with VSAT, the lack of bandwidth coupled with the intense vibrations from the rocket engines often leads to complete dropouts in video and data.’

‘Also, being resilient to relentless salt spray & extreme winds & storms in the deep sea is not easy,’ Musk explained on Twitter.

SpaceX has launched approximately 2,700 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit and has more than 400,000 subscribers worldwide.

However, the technology company hopes to have as many as 42,000 satellites.

The tech company also notes that as SpaceX carries out more launches, more time is spent overseas by its launch team – so team members can video call with family members while they’re at sea and also enjoy online gaming or streaming movies. without any problems.

‘Also, being resilient to relentless salt spray & extreme winds & storms in the deep sea is not easy,’ Musk said of the new service. Pictured is a SpaceX rocket aboard a drone

The new service has an upfront hardware cost of $10,000 for two ‘rugged’ Starlink platters and the regular fee will go up to $5,000 per month. Pictured is a SpaceX rocket aboard a drone

ELON MUSK’S SPACEX TO BRING BROADBAND INTERNET TO THE WORLD WITH ITS SATELLITE STARLINK CONSTELITE

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched more than 2,000 ‘Starlink’ space internet satellites into orbit and hopes to have 12,000 in the sky by 2026.

They form a constellation designed to provide low-cost broadband internet service from low Earth orbit.

While satellite internet has been around for a while, it suffers from high latency and unreliable connections.

Starlinks are different. SpaceX says its goal is to provide high-speed wired internet around the world.

Musk has previously said the venture could give the three billion people who currently don’t have access to the internet a cheap way to get online.

It could also help fund future cities on Mars.

Helping humanity reach the red planet is one of Musk’s long stated goals and it’s what inspired him to start SpaceX.

Musk’s rival Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, also plans to launch a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites to provide broadband access to remote areas, as part of his Project Kuiper.

However, astronomers have raised concerns about light pollution and other disturbances caused by this constellation of satellites.

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