AS14593 SPACEX-STARLINK

Starlink (SPACEX-STARLINK) — SpaceX's low-Earth-orbit satellite internet

service, delivering broadband almost anywhere on the planet.

What it's used for

• Consumer and business satellite broadband, especially in rural, remote, maritime, and underserved areas that terrestrial ISPs don't reach.

Notable

• A fast-growing "eyeball" network whose users connect via a phased-array dish to a constellation of thousands of low-orbit satellites, then egress to the internet through SpaceX ground stations.
• Because traffic exits at ground stations rather than the user's physical location, Starlink IP geolocation can be coarse or land at a regional PoP.

Interesting

• Its low-orbit design gives far lower latency than traditional geostationary satellite internet, making it usable for things like video calls and gaming.