SpaceX Starlink Group 7-9 Launch: First Direct-to-Mobile Satellites

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SpaceX launched 21 Starlink satellites into Generation 2 Group 7 on 2024-01-03 at 03:44 UTC. The launch was from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The first stage booster, B1082, was brand new and making its first flight.

This launch included the first six Starlink satellites equipped for direct to mobile phone communications. SpaceX announced:

This launch included the first six Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities that enable mobile network operators around the world to provide seamless global access to texting, calling, and browsing wherever you may be on land, lakes, or coastal waters without changing hardware or firmware. The enhanced Starlink satellites have an advanced modem that acts as a cellphone tower in space, eliminating deadzones with network integration similar to a standard roaming partner.

Global cellular providers using Direct to Cell to gain reciprocal access in all partner nations include T-Mobile in the U.S., Rogers in Canada, KDDI in Japan, Optus in Australia, One NZ in New Zealand, Salt in Switzerland, and Entel in Chile and Peru.

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The SpaceX phone should incorporate mesh software. For example, during the FEMA failure in North Carolina, if the FCC had done its job and mandated a 700MHz 5G emergency mesh mode, many lives would have been saved. The fact that the FCC doesn’t mandate a mesh fallback for 700MHz is just more evidence that the insular urban culture that is destroying the Nation of Settlers needs to be eliminated. PS: The idea that Starlink will make such emergency fallback unnecessary ignores the distinct probability that the Starlink network will become the focus of takeover if not EMP takeout.

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