Starlink grows and also wants to connect school buses.
Elon Musk's proprietary satellite internet service, which covers all seven continents including Antarctica, has now reached over 1 million terminals for users.
Musk has additional plans for the service, which he hopes to expand to cruise ships, planes, and even school buses.
According to a document that the company sent to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - as explained by the Business Insider website - it appears that it is working with school districts in American rural areas to provide students with the ;; bus service, transforming "the travel time in connection time ".
Elon Musk's company told FCC it is focusing the pilot program on bus routes that last more than an hour and are "predominantly inaccessible to other mobile broadband services," also noting that many low-income students have not. Internet access at home.
In the letter, SpaceX, the company that owns Starlink, urged the FCC to approve federal funding to support the provision of school buses with WiFi.
Musk recently made the Starlink service available in Iran after the government imposed restrictions on communications due to mass protests.
At the beginning of the Russian invasion, he kept his promise to bring Starlink to Ukraine.