Sina Science and Technology News Beijing time early morning news, Space Exploration Technology Company (SpaceX) Chief Executive Officer Musk revealed that Star chain Starlink satellite Internet service will soon be able to transmit data at a speed close to the speed of light.
Musk shared details of Starlink's new satellites on the social media platform, which SpaceX will launch in the coming months. Starlink transmits laser data through new satellites, which can travel about 40% faster than light in optical fiber, meaning that SpaceX's Internet service can transmit data at 180832 miles per hour. Given that the speed of light in a vacuum is 186282 miles per second, Starlink's vacuum data transmission speed is about 97 per cent of the speed of light.
Inter-satellite connectivity is mentioned for the first time in Starlink's second-generation satellite plan. The number of these satellites will reach 30000, and there will be a number of upgrades to the current in-orbit spacecraft, which will have three times the data capacity of the first-generation Starlink satellite and reduce the delay to 50 milliseconds.
According to documents submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX is preparing to launch more than 1200 Starlink satellites in the coming months.