SpaceX is making ready to launch a brand new Starlink Wi-Fi router, presumably for its up to date high-performance dish or one other upcoming product.
The corporate at the moment received FCC clearance to promote the brand new “Starlink Router” within the US, in response to FCC filings. The router options the mannequin quantity “UTR-251,” suggesting it succeeds the present Gen 3 router, which arrived in 2023 with the UTR-231 codename after which UTR-232. The submitting additionally features a image of the brand new router, which signifies the product is designed to sit down upright, extra just like the older Gen 2 mannequin.
(Credit score: FCC/SpaceX)
(Credit score: FCC/SpaceX)
The brand new router additionally has a single Ethernet port, as a substitute of two, just like the Gen 3 mannequin. The image provides that the router is designed for “Indoor Use solely,” and is being manufactured in Vietnam—a rustic that’s currently in limbo in regard to Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.
It isn’t clear how the brand new router differs from the present Gen 3 mannequin. The UTR-251 model additionally provides Wi-Fi 6 speeds and options the identical dimensions. However the FCC filings present the brand new mannequin generally has the next “watt output” for a wider vary of wi-fi radio frequencies, together with 5.9GHz, or the UNII-4 band, giving it entry to further spectrum.
Tim Belfall, a director at UK-based Starlink installer Westend WiFi, additionally points out the router requires a 9 Volt by 1.6 Amp, complete 14.4 watt, enter energy. That is considerably decrease than the ability requirements for the present Gen 3 router. Because of this, Belfall mentioned the router may be for an upcoming, and even smaller Mini dish for Starlink.
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Certainly, SpaceX is making ready no less than three new dish fashions, together with a refreshed flat high-performance Starlink dish for enterprise consumers. Starlink.com is at the moment discounting the prevailing flat excessive efficiency equipment from $2,499 to $1,499. (That mentioned, SpaceX final 12 months stopped bundling a Wi-Fi router with the prevailing high-performance dish.)
In the meantime, Oleg Kutkov, an engineer in Ukraine who helps restore Starlink dishes, spotted SpaceX making code modifications that recommend the refreshed high-performance dish is prepared for manufacturing.
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Final month, SpaceX additionally indicated in a presentation to resellers that it’s making ready a follow-up to the Starlink Mini dish and an much more highly effective dish designed to supply gigabit speeds.
Editor’s be aware: This story has been up to date with extra data, together with the chance that the router could possibly be for a brand new Mini dish.
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