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 had been invited to buy the Starlink Mini package for $599, based on an invite despatched to clients and seen by TechCrunch. That’s $100 greater than the usual Starlink package. They had been additionally given the choice to bundle Mini Roam service with their current service plan for an extra $30 per 30 days, although the info 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 cut back the value of the package, it stated within the invitation. As of now, there is no such thing as a stand-alone Mini Roam plan.
“Our aim is to cut back the value of Starlink for these around the globe the place connectivity has been unaffordable or utterly unavailable,” it says. “However in areas with excessive utilization, the place Starlink Mini locations extra 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 gentle: weighing round 2.5 kilos with the kickstand, it’s solely round 60% the burden of an ordinary 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 could possibly be “a fantastic low-cost possibility for a great backup Web connection in case your landline goes out.”
Starlink is SpaceX’s fashionable 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 international locations.
