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SpaceX Starlink Maritime (for boats) · Elon Musk Podcast

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  I'm your host will Weldon. And on today's episode, we're
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  going to be talking about star like Maritime, which is starlink
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  internet service, which is SpaceX, is rural Broadband,
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  satellite internet, service, but for books.
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  So, SpaceX tweeted something the other day that made people
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  absolutely lose their minds. And I want to show you guys that
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  start like Maritime allows you to connect from some of the most
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  remote Waters. In the world then they send a
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  link to Star like Maritime. Now mind you starlink is about
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  $110 per month for a rural location, okay?
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  So if you live in a cabin someplace in the woods and you
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  don't have internet connectivity right now, you pay about six
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  hundred dollars plus tax and other fees to get the equipment.
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  So it's about $635 and then you pay about $110 per month for
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  rural. Internet access.
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  So if you live on the middle of nowhere, or if you have low
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  connectivity, starlink is a really good fit for you most of
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  the time if you have like a hot spot or something like that,
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  which only gives you x amount of data per month until they slow
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  you down star, only gives a really great choice but for
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  maritime people. There's really not that much
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  Choice out there and what they do have is extremely expensive,
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  five thousand, six thousand dollars a month, you know, for
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  for internet connectivity. It's not that great.
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  So SpaceX sent this tweet out star like Maritime allows you to
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  connect from some of the most remote Waters in the world.
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  Now you really want a great internet connection when you're
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  out there in the middle of nowhere.
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  Basically, and if you want to connect with people, if you want
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  to do work from your boat, if you need to make distress calls
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  anything like that, Starlet can help you with that.
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  So Elon Musk stated here after the whole Mars kettle.
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  Tweeted, I love this toy like Maritime is the same exact thing
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  as residential Sterling, but on a boat but it's priced. 550 x,
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  hire, smart, vertical, specific pricing and Elon had to go
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  through this all these tweets and tell people exactly what's
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  up. He said, no, it's dual
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  high-performance terminals which are important for maintaining
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  the connection and choppy sea. And heavy storms, still
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  obviously premium pricing, but way cheaper and faster than
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  Alternatives. And this is where the pricing.
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  Zup. SpaceX is paying a hundred and
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  fifty thousand dollars per month for a much worse connection to
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  our ships 150,000 dollars per month.
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  What that's so much money. Also being ruggedized for
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  Relentless salt, spray and extreme winds, and storms in
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  deep ocean is not easy. So, it's not the exact same
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  terminal as you get at your cabin in the woods.
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  It's rubberized, it's it's more durable.
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  It To withstand everything out the ocean.
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  So, 150 thousand dollars a month for much worse connectivity to
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  our ships. So what we have to think about
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  this for a second, if your way out in the middle of the ocean,
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  something happens, there are other forms of communication, of
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  course. But if all of those fail and you
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  have a starling terminal available to you, it's just a
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  good idea to have that available.
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  I want to show you what SpaceX also Stood on their star links
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  site. Okay.
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  These are public files and SpaceX has started like
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  increases SpaceX recovery. Fleet throughput by fifty nine
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  hundred percent reducing cost by 70%.
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  Obviously been here a little bit for you so you can actually see
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  this stuff as I'm going through it.
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  But as the world's leading provider of lunch services in
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  the only provider with an orbital class reusable rocket
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  SpaceX operates, a fleet of ten ocean-going vessels designated
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  to safely and reliably Cover rockets and spacecraft that take
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  both humans and cargo to orbit. So they go on to say unreliable
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  connectivity at a high cost prior to start, like SpaceX is
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  maritime recovery, Fleet light on traditional geostationary
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  satellite internet service vsat which came with high latency low
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  bandwidth. And poor reliability systems
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  were also challenging to install and required frequent
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  maintenance. So basically they're saying hey
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  this connectivity is not that Good.
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  We've tried it. You know how bad it is.
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  So we're going to make a system not only for you but for our
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  uses, when we recover our Falcon 9 rocket and over 165 thousand
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  dollars per month for 25 Meg, download by 25 MB, upload of
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  prepaid bandwidth. Satellite internet was one of
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  the top operating costs for spacex's Recovery Fleet and
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  because the vehicle can generate hundreds of gigabytes of data
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  SpaceX regularly played paid come For costly overage fees.
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  So we've seen this before so the the views that you get from a
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  falcon 9 Landing on one of the recovery vehicles, of course, I
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  there, not that good, you know. So so we know that that's where
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  Where this is coming from it, but that's an operating cost for
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  SpaceX. So, if you think about it, a
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  falcon 9 launch of a starling satellite that is its
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  advertising. Basically, if you see it on
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  YouTube. So all of these starlink
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  launches that you see on YouTube that goes into their advertising
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  budget. So this hundred sixty-five
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  thousand dollars a month is an operating cost for those
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  advertisements. Basically.
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  And also, of course they're sending the Rockets to space and
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  there are satellites, Starling satellites that are going into
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  orbit, so they can Provide low-cost internet to people
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  low-cost satellite internet. I should say.
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  I transformational improvements with star-like.
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  Now, this is where it gets really juicy and good under an
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  experimental license SpaceX recovery teams had the
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  opportunity to test and develop starlings, Maritime terminals,
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  prior to Market release with dramatic results.
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  This is really cool. Fifty nine, hundred percent
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  added download, download through pain, 700% edit, upload,
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  throughput a 95% Reduction in latency.
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  That's huge. 70% reduction in cost.
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  So if you have a fleet of boats out there right now and you're
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  relying on the scent and you can reduce your cost by 70%, by
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  installing a starling terminal on your boat or on your Fleet,
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  your hopefully, that sounds like a great business opportunity for
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  people to take advantage of with a Max of Upload speed of 40
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  Meg's on, each installation star like was has an able to transfer
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  of a hundreds. Hundreds of gigabytes of data
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  within hours of the rocket Landing that was not possible by
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  the BCS system. Star like also reduce latency by
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  50% to just 50 milliseconds allowing operators to respond
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  faster for even greater control over the fleet SpaceX monthly
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  costs. Visa 165 thousand dollars before
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  starlink and with starlink fifty thousand dollars.
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  So they're saving a hundred and fifteen thousand dollars just by
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  using starlink at a flat rate of 5,000 dollars per vessel per
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  month, SpaceX will see a nearly 70% reduction monthly internet
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  cost for the fleet after implementation of starlink.
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  So this is this is what I was talking about before.
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  So the the starlink Satellite internet launches you'd see a
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  falcon 9 come back to of course, I still love you and it looked
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  like the picture on the left. You can barely see.
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  It was cool that you got to see a rocket landing on a drone ship
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  in the ocean. But on the right, you get to see
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  the actual rocket. Like that's so much better.
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  That's such a better image quality and not just image but
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  voice video if you if you're going to do a video call with.
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  Loved ones when you're out on the ocean, the best thing to do
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  is to have a very good connectivity because you want to
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  see your kids, you want to see your family, you want to see the
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  other people in your life that are doing the cool things that
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  they're doing and you want to see them in great detail.
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  So that's where the star like for maritime comes into play.
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  So if you're interested in this stuff, I go to Star like.com,
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  it's great for Rural internet, it can save you.
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  Some money over time. And also, I mean, if you have a
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  fleet of boats, this is probably your best bet at this point.
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  I mean, it's saved SpaceX 70% off their internet bill just
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  because they installed starlink 70%, from 165 thousand dollars
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  to fifty thousand dollars. That's a huge reduction in cost.
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  That's that's insane. That's so much money.
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  So, anyway, let me know what you think.
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  Would you get starlink on your boat?
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  If you have a boat, that would be pretty cool to.
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  I don't have a boat myself but it would be pretty neat to have
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  a starlink terminal on your boat.
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  I don't think it's useful for small boats and it's kind of
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  cost prohibitive for like a smaller Fleet or you know like a
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  party boat or something like that does don't get it for your
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  party about this. Use your phone if you have to
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  but if you're going out deep in the ocean you know like these
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  recovery vessels do it seems like a really good business
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  option to have the Save yourself 70,000 or 70 percent reduction
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  in monthly cost, that's pretty great.
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  So let me know what you think in the comments.
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  Thanks everybody take care of yourselves and each other.
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  I'll see you next time on the space news pod.