TAMPA, Fla. — Brightline said May 8 it has develop into the primary passenger rail company to supply Starlink satellite broadband, which it plans to deploy on a complete 10 trains connecting cities across parts of Florida this summer.
The complimentary service is out there on five trains connecting Miami and West Palm Beach in south Florida, Brightline said in a news release, and will probably be added to 5 more trains for extending operations to Orlando in central Florida.
Brightline didn’t detail broadband speeds within the announcement, but said SpaceX’s low Earth orbit constellation would enable streaming, online gaming, video calls, and other high data rate activities even in essentially the most rural areas.
“We’re excited to work with Brightline and supply Starlink to their entire fleet,” SpaceX vp of Starlink business sales Jonathan Hofeller said, “which can enable all of Brightline’s passengers to access high-speed, low-latency web that’s critical in our modern age.”
It’s the most recent expansion right into a latest customer segment for SpaceX because it secured regulatory permission June 30 to attach moving vehicles to Starlink.
Since starting out with a concentrate on residential consumers greater than two years ago, Starlink has expanded into enterprise, government, aviation, maritime, and the marketplace for recreational vehicles.
U.S.-based semi-private charter company JSX, the primary air carrier to announce plans to adopt Starlink last 12 months, said May 8 it has now installed the service across its entire lively fleet of 40 Embraer jets.
The jet service provider has an agreement to equip Starlink on as much as 100 aircraft.
SpaceX recently said Starlink has greater than 1.5 million customers in total worldwide.
In keeping with data maintained by astronomer and spaceflight analyst Jonathan McDowell, there are currently around 4,000 Starlink satellites in operation as SpaceX continues to expand the constellation aggressively.