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Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers

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Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers

The white Starlink Mini dish sitting on a table looks small even next to a small brown dog.
Starlink’s new Mini dish next to an Earth puppy. | Image: Michael Nicolls via X

SpaceX’s Starlink internet-from-space service is already available for boats, planes, vanlifers, Amazonian villages, and rural homes in over 75 countries — now it’s coming to backpackers.

The new compact DC-powered Starlink Mini is about the size of a thick laptop and integrates the Wi-Fi router right inside the dish. And despite using less power than other Starlink terminals, it can still deliver speeds over 100Mbps.

“This product will change the world,” claimed SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on X, saying it took less than five minutes to setup.

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