A few months ago, SpaceX launched a fleet of internet-beaming satellites that operate over the Arctic region to serve countries in high-latitudes with its Starlink broadband satellite coverage. This week, SpaceX announced Starlink Internet is ready to be delivered to Iceland, the last addition to the Nordic countries already covered: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Greenland is the only Nordic country without a Starlink coverage: SpaceX will launch more satellites to serve remote places in the Arctic region. Some sparsely populated areas in these regions receive a lot of snow, making it difficult to build reliable terrestrial internet infrastructures: the Starlink satellite system is ideal for geographically isolated areas where internet connectivity is either unreliable or completely unavailable. Users can simply access the satellite constellation with a Starlink phased array antenna that connects to a Wi-Fi router to wirelessly access high-speed internet. According to SpaceX’s official Starlink Coverage Map, Starlink satellites already beam internet data to almost all of Europe. As of today, SpaceX operates approximately 3580 Starlink satellites in Low Earth Orbit and is working to deploy further 7500 upgraded next-generation satellites.
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