Starlink sales start in Germany

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

Elon Musk's space travel start-up SpaceX has started pre-sales of the Starlink satellite service. Interested parties in Germany can also register online. The service should be available by the middle of the year. Starlink offers an internet connection for areas that are currently excluded from broadband use. To this end, the company launched more than 1,000 satellites into space last year.

Space X only wants to sell a limited number of sets for the time being for capacity reasons, as ArsTechnica writes. The service is also not cheap: a one-off fee of 499 euros is payable for the hardware, plus monthly usage fees of 99 euros and delivery fees of 50 euros.

At the end of last year, Space X tested its service on a large scale in the USA, 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. The service is to be gradually expanded. If founder Musk has his way, SpaceX will launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit.