That moving line of stars over Becker County Thursday night was a SpaceX satellite cluster
SpaceX has FCC permission to launch 12,000 Starlink satellites into low earth orbit it wants to put up 42,000.
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Starlink satellites leave a trail across the Minnesota sky. (Photo by Bob King / duluthnewstribune.com/astro-bob)
To the untrained eye, that parade of stars moving from the northwest across the sky over Detroit Lakes on Thursday evening may have looked a bit like space invaders caught blinking between wormholes.
But what looked like 25 or 30 “stars” was actually a cluster of Starlink satellites on a low-orbit mission to provide high-speed internet service to North America.
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May 7, 2021
The Office of State Broadband, within the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel announced it is working to help build consumer awareness about the Emergency Broadband Benefit, a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program. The temporary benefit will help to lower the cost of broadband service for eligible households during the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.
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The $3.2B Emergency Broadband Benefit program provides a discount of up to a $50 per month toward broadband service for eligible households and up to $75 per month for qualifying households on qualifying Tribal lands. The benefit also provides up to a $100 per household discount toward a one-time purchase of a computer, laptop, or tablet if the household contributes more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase through a participating broadband provider.