In cursory: Satellite Net service Starlink has revealed a new rectangular user terminal kit for users. The kit comes with a smaller and lighter dish that is uniform with new mounting accessories and an IP54-rated WiFi router without a congenital-in Ethernet port. For now, the new user terminal is limited to Usa customers.

During the whole "Better Than Zippo Beta" test that started over a year ago, Starlink users were limited to a 23-inch-wide, 16-pound circular dish that came with a WiFi router and all the necessary cables. That'due south at present changing, as Starlink is getting set to launch a new dish that changes in shape, size and specifications.

The new rectangular dish is 12 inches wide and 19 inches long and weighs nigh ix.2 pounds, making it not but much smaller but besides lighter, which might come in handy for those trying to mount it in certain areas. This new dish as well offers new mounting options that permit users to install it on a side wall, a roof, or even on a piping or a basis pole.

Also the dish, the new Starlink hardware kit likewise comes with a 3x3, MU-MIMO WiFi router with IP54 rating (water resistant), but Starlink claims it'southward configured for "indoor utilise." Different the older router, the power supply of the new router is integrated inside and doesn't take a built-in Ethernet port, but the latter can be solved by acquiring an Ethernet adapter through Starlink's store.

Like the original user final kit, the new one should likewise be priced at $499, and so there's a adept chance that Starlink is all the same selling them at a loss. Starlink president Gwynne Shotwell said the new kits toll less than $1,500, adding that SpaceX "but rolled out a new version that saved about $200 off the toll."

The new user final kit is available for "all new orders fulfilled in the United States," but seeing how await times are being pushed due to increasing demand, it might take some time before customers get their hands on the new dish.

We should too consider that Elon Musk stated Starlink would officially launch in October, marking the end of the "Amend Than Nothing Beta" program. The thing is, we're already midway through November and haven't even so seen an annunciation of the satellite Internet service.