SpaceX Receives FCC Approval That Can increase Starlink Network Speeds Significantly!

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SpaceX has received a crucial Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorization for its Starlink satellite internet constellation. The firm, which has rapidly built the Starlink network and launched more than four thousand satellites to date, nevertheless suffered from high usage in certain areas and low in others even as it rushed to populate orbital shells with the satellites. This led to a degradation of internet speeds for users in North America, but now, it appears as if the internet speeds might improve. The FCC has approved SpaceX's request to increase the transmit duty cycles of its second-generation user dishes after SpaceX submitted data to the Commission outlining that doing so would not violate any radiofrequency emissions regulations.

SpaceX has been investigating ways to make its Starlink user dishes more potent for quite some time now. The firm first filed an application with the FCC in June last year seeking approval to launch new Starlink satellite dishes. These would feature several upgrades over their predecessors, including a higher transmit duty cycle. In networking, the transmit duty cycle is the time a terminal spends connected and communicating with a transmitting body.

SpaceX's application revealed that the new dishes would have a duty cycle of 14% - implying that they would communicate with the satellites for longer. However, this percentage was later reduced to 10.5% due to changes in the Commission's radiofrequency calculation. Following the application for the second generation user dishes, SpaceX submitted another request to the FCC to test 200 user