SpaceX successfully launched another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, aiming to add to the coverage of its internet service, but while the constellation may be moving it turns out your dish can’t. Like a lot of people, I’ve been hoping to score a space on the Starlink “Better Than Nothing Beta” which is giving some users early access to the company’s internet network, but it turns out there’s some fine print that might limit how you hoped to use it.
Rather than wired cable or fiber optic links, internet service through a phone line, or terrestrial wireless like 4G and 5G, Starlink looks to space for its connection. SpaceX plans a huge number of orbiting satellites – known as a constellation – which would effectively blanket the planet in coverage.
On the ground, users have a Starlink kit that…