Elon Musk's SpaceX To Team Up With T-Mobile For Testing Starlink's Satellite-To-Cell Service

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX reportedly plans to begin testing its Starlink satellite-to-cell service with T-Mobile this year.

What Happened: SpaceX vice president of Starlink enterprise sales Jonathan Hofeller said that the space company will start testing its Starlink satellite-to-cell network this year, reported CNBC.

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“We’re going to learn a lot by doing — not necessarily by overanalyzing — and getting out there, working with the telcos,” Hofeller said, according to the report.

He added that SpaceX is building six next-generation satellites per day at its lab near Seattle, as well as 1,000s of user terminals daily, the report stated.

Starlink presently has more than 4,000 satellites in orbit and over a million users, a milestone it crossed in December. “Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured,” Elon Musk tweeted in September.

“We’re moving rapidly to a world of abundance when it comes to capacity on orbit,” said Hofeller.

Early in February, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said Starlink had a cash-flow positive quarter in 2022 while adding, "This year Starlink will make money."

Earlier this month, Falcon 9 launched 51 Starlink satellites to orbit from California, marking SpaceX’s 15th mission thus far this year. Last week, SpaceX also launched 40 OneWeb satellites to orbit.

SpaceX and T-Mobile US Inc TMUS announced a technology partnership last August.

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