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SpaceX Starlink $28 Million Air Force Contract Has Delivered 610 Mbps to Military Plane

• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian Wang

SpaceX received a $28 million contract to test over the next three years to test Starlink broadband services with the military. SpaceX has demonstrated data throughput of 610 megabits per second in flight to the cockpit of a U.S. military C-12 twin-engine turboprop aircraft.

the USAF has plans to install Starlink terminals and test connectivity with an AC-130 gunship and a KC-135 tanker aircraft.

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