Starlink - pre-order available in NZ

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#2749098 24-Jul-2021 11:55

tim0001:

We just got the "Your Order is Ready" email 😀

Hopefully many others in NZ have too. We are in the South Island, slightly north of Wellington.

Wow, that's awesome - sounds like quite a jump up in service. I hope the North Island gets switched on soon too!

Will be interesting to see if traffic still being routed via Australia - hope not.

Oh, could be interesting to add your latitude to this Reddit page too - https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/ml2i9q/starlink_availability_current_and_new_beta_test/

doctortea

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#2749150 24-Jul-2021 12:05

tim0001:

We just got the "Your Order is Ready" email 😀

Hopefully many others in NZ have too. We are in the South Island, slightly north of Wellington.

Oooh exciting, when did you preorder? I'm not much lower in terms of latitude, so will be interesting to see how quickly it rolls out. starlink.sx has our coverage prediction at almost 100%.

doctortea

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#2749151 24-Jul-2021 12:10

Just to follow up, did some random order tests.

Seems like a large share of the South Island is open to full orders! Very exciting!!

tim0001

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#2749154 24-Jul-2021 12:26

doctortea:

tim0001:

We just got the "Your Order is Ready" email 😀

Hopefully many others in NZ have too. We are in the South Island, slightly north of Wellington.

Oooh exciting, when did you preorder? I'm not much lower in terms of latitude, so will be interesting to see how quickly it rolls out. starlink.sx has our coverage prediction at almost 100%.

We pre-ordered on 19 Feb I think. I've put a few addresses in for the top of the south, and full orders are available.

zenourn

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#2749158 24-Jul-2021 12:48

Zander:

Will be interesting to see if traffic still being routed via Australia - hope not.

All traffic is still being routed via Aussie. I was a bit discouraged by this initially as I work from home a lot with VPNs to local sites but in reality haven't noticed it much. I still would think it great if they put in a POP in Auckland but the NZ market is likely only a rounding error to them in terms of income and we are likely very lucky that we were one of the initial countries to have it rolled out.

Zander

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#2749160 24-Jul-2021 12:52

I tried putting a test order in, and seems you can order 'now' in Wellington itself :) So pretty much everywhere south of 41.2° stands a chance of getting active cells.

r/Starlink - New Zealand - Jump up in latitude to Wellington (41.2°) from Christchurch (43.3°)

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#2749187 24-Jul-2021 14:04

Yay! I preordered on the day I started this thread and have received the shipping email overnight. South Island Mackenzie District.

tim0001

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#2749214 24-Jul-2021 15:22

Like many people in NZ this weekend, I’ll be cutting down a couple of trees for Starlink.

Just a warning, on my android the obstruction checker has the “cone” pointing north. But on an iphone its south. I’ll be cutting the trees to the south (there are no trees to the north) so I’ve got all bases covered (and a good supply of firewood) . Anyway don't trust the obstruction checker on the Starlink app.

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#2749307 24-Jul-2021 21:03

Second half of this video talks about Starlink.Lots of intesting inforamtion, like why does Starlink need ground stations.

How SpaceX Fixed Its Drone Ship Camera

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#2749317 24-Jul-2021 21:40

Hah I watched that a day or so ago. We must get suggested the same stuff based on watching launches and so forth :)

Although it's a stealth ad for skillshare.

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#2752272 30-Jul-2021 10:53

Friend who ordered at the start of the year here in Wellington got their shipping notification yesterday. Due here on 8 August direct from California.

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#2754832 3-Aug-2021 22:09

So jelly, need this in Napier :(

Zander

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#2754845 3-Aug-2021 23:33

Starlink is due to reach its final position any day now - perhaps 8th August. (at least for this orbital shell for now).

Elon currently has SpaceX working like mad to finish the Super Heavy Booster 4 and Starship 20, stacking together to make Super Heavy Starship 4/20 - ETA somewhere between 5th and 15th August on rumours I've seen.

My guess is Elon is preparing to do a big joint-announcement of Starlink being 'live' at the same time Starship 4/20 is fully stacked.

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#2754849 3-Aug-2021 23:49

Did you see yesterday snaps.

Surprise! 29 raptors are attached

Zander

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#2754851 3-Aug-2021 23:59

Oblivian: Did you see yesterday snaps.

Surprise! 29 raptors are attached

Indeed! I've been following Boca Chica since its early days, and NSF do a great job. But I think 29 Raptors installed in one day surprised everyone - not least where they all appeared from :)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/spacex-installed-29-raptor-engines-on-a-super-heavy-rocket-last-night/

Elon must be itching to get Starship launching Starlinks ASAP. There are 2 orbits still to fill in the current shell (click 'Show Orbital Chart' on https://starlink.sx/) . Also Starship's possible test trajectory is not so far off a Starlink launch - just needs to go a bit further south over NZ perhaps :) https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1411781300063813648

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