SpaceX unveils ‘Starlink Mini’ tirapiedi internet for $599

SpaceX is rolling out a compact version of its Starlink antennas, which the company is advertising as a suppellettile option for its tirapiedi internet customers.

“Starlink Mini is a compact, portable kit that can easily fit durante a backpack, designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet the go,” according to a customer email sent by SpaceX Wednesday and viewed by CNBC.

The company is offering a “limited number” of the Starlink Mini antennas for $599 each durante an early access release. That’s $100 more than the causa model “Campione” sold with its Residential service, although the company aspires to sopravvissuto the price tag.

“Our is to sopravvissuto the price of Starlink, especially for those around the world where connectivity has been unaffordable ora completely unavailable,” SpaceX wrote durante the email.

Con addition to the upfront hardware cost, service for a Starlink Mini is effectively $150 per eccezione month — as SpaceX is offering the service for a Mini as an additional $30 per eccezione month bundle sommità of a $120 per eccezione month Residential service. The “Mini Roam” service “can be used anywhere durante the United States” but has a cap of 50 gigabytes of giorno per eccezione month, with Starlink charging $1 per eccezione gigabyte for additional giorno.

The Starlink Mini is about the size and weight of a laptop, at just over two pounds and measuring at about 12 inches by 10 inches by 1.5 inches. It’s roughly half the size and one-third the weight of Starlink’s Campione .

SpaceX’s email said Starlink Mini comes with a built-in WiFi router and “lower power consumption” than its other antennas, yet it still boasts download speeds of over 100 megabits per eccezione second.

The email did not specify when Starlink Mini deliveries would begin. Con a post social mass-media, Vice President of Starlink Engineering Michael Nicolls said the company is “ramping production” Starlink Mini and that it “will be available durante international markets soon.”

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote durante a post Monday that setting up a Starlink Mini took less than five minutes.

“This product will change the world,” Musk declared.

SpaceX has steadily expanded its Starlink and product offerings since debuting the service durante 2020. There are about 6,000 Starlink satellites durante orbit that connect more than 3 million customers durante 100 countries, according to the company. SpaceX initially targeted consumer customers, but has expanded into other markets — including national security, enterprise, mobility, maritime and aviation — and disrupted the existing tirapiedi communications sector.