Early one morning, Nick Guzowski was looking up at the stars on his rural property in the Wollondilly Shire when he noticed a constellation of satellites moving swiftly through the dawn sky.
After signing up to Starlink’s beta rollout and forking out $809, a Starlink satellite pack arrived at Guzowski’s property in November, in the form of a medium-sized box, a dish, and a set of pictorial instructions.“It took less than thirty seconds to install,” Guzowski says. “I just unpacked it and plugged it into the power.”
While intensely secretive, Starlink’s current rollout is understood to be gathering pace with more than 100,000 users on its beta services across 12 countries, including Australia and New Zealand.is assisting with the 20 Starlink base stations already operating in Australia, and the six in New Zealand.
Starlink’s satellites, on the other hand, are low earth orbit satellites, or LEOs, which sit about 300 kilometres from the ground, so they relay messages faster, but need more satellites to cover the same surface area.
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