Via: Teslarati:
SpaceX has announced a launch target of May 2019 for the first
batch of operational Starlink satellites in a sign that the proposed
internet satellite constellation has reached a major milestone,
effectively transitioning from pure research and development to serious
manufacturing.
R&D will continue as SpaceX Starlink engineers work to
implement the true final design of the first several hundred or thousand
spacecraft, but a significant amount of the team’s work will now be
centered on producing as many Starlink satellites as possible, as
quickly as possible. With anywhere from 4400 to nearly 12,000 satellites
needed to complete the three major proposed phases of Starlink, SpaceX
will have to build and launch more than 2200 satellites in the next five
years, averaging 44 high-performance, low-cost spacecraft built and
launched every month for the next 60 months.
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