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For those not aware, Starlink has no problem with working in motion as it's used on airplanes travelling at 1000km/h. This is more of availability announcement for end users.



This isn't really true. Starlink is not designed for working in motion and the ToS explicitly says it's not supported, including for this service.


Starlink user terminal is "physically" not designed for working in motion. That is, it has not passed any safety tests that ensures it won't dismount, and fly off and damage property or injure people. The Starlink system is absolutely designed to work at high speeds (both as evident from comments in this post from people maintaining connection at 100km/h to it being deployed on airplanes).


There's also the physical tests of the motors being able to withstand the wind force loading.

And no it's not designed to work at high speeds. People keep confusing "designed to work at" with "possible to use outside of recommended conditions".

The system being deployed on airplanes is somewhat different than the one being sold to consumers.



Work doesn't mean work correctly. And he also said that the warranty is void in such case. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1528879210500132866




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