Starlink sales start in Germany

SpaceX, Elon Musk's start-up, is charging a lot for the service.

Elon Musk's space start-up SpaceX has begun pre-selling its Starlink satellite service. Interested parties in Germany can also register online. In the middle of the year, the service should then be usable. Starlink offers an Internet connection for areas that have so far been excluded from broadband use. To this end, the company has launched more than 1,000 satellites into space over the past year.

Space X plans to sell only a limited number of sets for now, for capacity reasons, ArsTechnica

writes. The service is also not cheap: a one-time fee of 499 euros is required for the hardware, plus monthly usage fees of 99 euros and delivery fees of 50 euros.

At the end of last year, Space X was already testing its service on a large scale in the US, Canada and the UK. More than 10,000 people had beta access to Starlink. The internet connection via the satellites was up to 100 Mbit/s fast. Gradually, the service will be expanded. If founder Musk has his way, SpaceX should put tens of thousands of satellites into orbit.