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Starlink's Six New UK Earth Stations (Proposal)

Mark.J

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Ofcom launched two new consultations today, but the smaller one is arguably of the most interest. Starlink has put in applications to setup six new earth stations in the UK.


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On top of capacity (not an issue in the UK), speeds could improve massively due to spectrum, we may see them break the 500mbps barrier before too long.
 
At the moment the growth in customers seems to be outstripping Starlink's ability to add new capacity via LEOs, but more ground stations and greater spectrum bandwidth could certainly help. As to will their next gen LEOs.
 
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I’m only down the road from Martlesham (ok BTs big satellite farm out the back of Adastral Park) and to be fair I thought that was already operational for Starlink.

Oops. Maybe I’m reading the map wrong and Martlesham is green but Wherstead is the proposed station. But that in itself is a somewhat odd / puzzling choice as they are barely 5 miles apart and there’s precious little at Wherstead…
 
When zoomed-in, it looks like Wherstead is the proposed gateway and Martlesham is an existing teleport site. Ofcom.. not the best at graphics work :)
 
Ofcom launched two new consultations today, but the smaller one is arguably of the most interest. Starlink has put in applications to setup six new earth stations in the UK.


Ofcom-Starlink-Earth-Stations-Proposal-2022.png
As based in the North West, I'm delighted to see a new teleport at Salford to utilise Manchester LINX!
 
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