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The soft-launch of service this year is only expected to cover northern Canada and the south of South America.


I've seen this simulation of what initial coverage should look like (ignoring ground stations):

https://streamable.com/3lbqj

Southern Canada/Northern US is where I presume they will actually do testing, but they should be able to provide reasonable-ish (eyeballing at >80%) uptime across most of the world provided they can get ground stations.

They'll continue to launch satellites past the first 6 launches too, so coverage should dramatically improve by the end of the year compared to a June or August launch.




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