The contents of the Starlink Kit for customers, which includes the satellite dish, a stand, its power supply and a WiFi router.
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SpaceX plans to build a new factory in Austin, Texas – which will add another expansion of the region to one of Elon Musk’s companies after the billionaire founder moved there last year.
The plan for the facility was unveiled in a post for a company looking for an engineer for its Starlink satellite internet division.
“To keep pace with global demand, SpaceX is breaking ground into a new, modern manufacturing facility in Austin, TX,” the company said in the post.
SpaceX noted that the factory is designed for ‘large-scale manufacturing’, specifically to make millions of devices facing consumers. For its satellite internet network, the devices are known as the Starlink Kit and contain the antenna (or dish) that connects to the satellites, Wi-Fi routers and antenna mounting devices.
Currently, the company’s Starlink unit is in Redmond, Washington, a few miles east of Seattle. To date, the Redmond plant has developed and manufactured Starlink equipment, and the company builds more than 120 satellites per month.
The company did not immediately respond to a request from CNBC for comment on its plans for the Austin plant.
SpaceX’s plans for the new factory were first reported by NBC subsidiary KXAN in Austin.
A Starlink user terminal installed on the roof of a building in Canada.
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Starlink is the company’s capital – intensive project to build an interconnected internet network with thousands of satellites, called a constellation in the space industry, designed to deliver high – speed internet to consumers across the planet.
To date, SpaceX has launched more than 1,000 satellites for Starlink. In October, SpaceX launched early service in a public beta to customers in the US, Canada and the UK, priced at $ 99 per month, plus an upfront cost of $ 499 for the hardware needed to network to connect.
The post office does not have further details about the Austin factory, such as square foot, when it is expected to take effect, or provide the intended production targets. The placement of SpaceX did note that the role would include working remotely in Austin and traveling about a quarter of the time to SpaceX’s headquarters in Los Angeles, “until the Austin facility is fully established.”
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