Starlink, Starship, and a tiny house roof

A small white dish will sit on my tiny house roof in rural Germany. That’s Starlink Mini — rented, not bought — and it’s about to become my primary internet.

I signed up during an introductory offer: €10 per month for 100 MBit. That window’s closed; regular price is €29. Still reasonable for satellite internet where DSL is the only alternative and “100 MBit” was a foreign concept a year ago.

SpaceX — the company that makes and operates Starlink — launches Starship on May 19. Seventh flight of the biggest flying object ever built. They had spectacular failures, iterated fast, and kept going. The pace at which that organization moves is genuinely hard to reconcile with how slowly everything else in this industry works.

Via @XFreeze.

I’m on satellite internet rented from a rocket company. That sentence would have seemed absurd five years ago.

They ship.