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Strong technical source

This article published on 3 June—before the 4 June launch—has a good deal of information on the constellation, how the orbit raises are done, where the sats are ending up, etc. Will be a good source for improving the article. Evaluating SpaceX’s Starlink Push by Danny Lentz, 3 June 2020.

Picture

The pic "Starlink in Tübingen, Germany" is absolutely not helpful. Even with magnifier you cant see anything on the preview pic. crop or remove. the subtitle is wrong anyway, this is not "starlink", which is a brand, but obviously a satellite chain from the first batch. please clarify! 47.67.195.3 (talk) 10:08, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Starship Launches

@Mfb Instead of replacing

'... launch on Starship, an under-development rocket of SpaceX that will launch 400 satellites at a time.'

with

'... launch on Starship, an under-development rocket of SpaceX with a much larger payload capability.'

would it not be better to have something like:

Starlink satellites are also planned to launch on Starship, an under-development rocket of SpaceX. The initial announcement included plans to launch 400 Starlink (1.0) satellites at a time. Revised plans call for Starship to only launch the much larger Starlink v2.0.

AmigaClone (talk) 10:15, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I like that option. Maybe "to launch fewer but larger" in some way to make clearer that 400 won't happen. --mfb (talk) 17:57, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I prefer "prototype" to "under-development". Shorter and simpler. Nelsonblaha (talk) 05:04, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Availability

According to the Starlink map page [1] there are a few countries that have Starlink available that are not listed in the "Availability and regulatory approval by country" table. E.g. the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. It will take some time to cross-reference and find them all but I'll do what I can. Also, concerning Puerto Rico, since it's a territory of the US, should it have an entry or not?War (talk) 18:16, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like France has a few of its island territories listed in the same column. If we follow this pattern, Puerto Rico should be added to the US entry.War (talk) 18:22, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I can't see the purpose or logic of the Canada regulatory history example to exemplify that factors other than ITU approval can affect Starlink deployment. I don't think this needs to be stated, neither Canada's regulatory history, which belongs in #History. I propose that the whole thing comes out per WP:NOTNEWS. The example doesn't work anyway. Nelsonblaha (talk) 05:01, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://www.starlink.com/map

Microwaves?

So, microwaves? radiowaves? hand signals? morse-code? What?

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