SpaceX doesn’t have FAA approval, so ‘it is the responsibility of the aircraft operator’ to make sure using the Starlink Mini dish doesn’t interfere with the plane’s operation, SpaceX says.
SpaceX is supporting another use case for its portable Starlink Mini dish: Bringing satellite internet to small planes.
Starlink.com site has been updated with several support articles about the Mini dish’s ability to offer Wi-Fi access in small aircraft, despite the lack of FAA authorization.
“For smaller General Aviation aircraft or for aircraft that we do not have an STC [Supplemental Type Certificates] for yet, Starlink Mini may be used as a Portable Electronic Device (PED), on the interior of an aircraft only,” the company wrote in a support article.
