SpaceX unveiled Starlink Mini, a extra moveable model of its satellite tv for pc web product that’s sufficiently small to suit inside a backpack.
Early Starlink clients have been invited to buy the Starlink Mini equipment for $599, in response to an invite despatched to clients and seen by gajed. That’s $100 greater than the usual Starlink equipment. They have been additionally given the choice to bundle Mini Roam service with their present service plan for a further $30 per 30 days, although the information is capped at 50 gigabytes per 30 days.
That may imply a Starlink residential buyer on the usual service plan would spent $150 month. SpaceX goals to scale back the value of the equipment, it stated within the invitation. As of now, there isn’t any stand-alone Mini Roam plan.
“Our aim is to scale back the value of Starlink for these world wide the place connectivity has been unaffordable or fully unavailable,” it says. “However in areas with excessive utilization, the place Starlink Mini locations further demand on the satellite tv for pc community, we’re providing a restricted variety of the Starlink Mini Kits to start out for $599.”
The Mini antenna is extremely mild: weighing round 2.5 kilos with the kickstand, it’s solely round 60% the burden of a typical Starlink dish. The service additionally boasts max obtain speeds of over 100 Mbps
The primary Starlink Minis will arrive someday in July. The choice will little doubt enchantment to vacationers, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated on X that the Mini might be “an amazing low-cost possibility for a very good backup Web connection in case your landline goes out.”
Starlink is SpaceX’s standard satellite tv for pc web product, which is powered by over 6,000 satellites in orbit proper now. The service boasts greater than 3 million clients throughout 100 nations.