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Starlink, an ambitious minimal-earth orbit satellite broadband service provider owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is evidently supporting Tonga restore Net connectivity after the eruption of an undersea volcano broke its only global fiber-optic website link on January 15.&#13

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Tonga Geological Services staff monitor Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai erupting three days before the eruption that triggered a tsunami. 

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Tonga Geological Products and services employees observe Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai erupting 3 days just before the eruption that brought on a tsunami. &#13
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There has been some Twitter action involving Elon Musk about the probability of sending Starlink terminals to the beleaguered Pacific island country, which looks to have commenced the ball rolling.&#13

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As claimed by different news retailers, Fiji’s Attorney-Typical Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum flagged on Twitter currently that “A SpaceX workforce is now in Fiji setting up a Starlink gateway station to reconnect Tonga to the entire world.” He congratulated Musk on a “great initiative.”&#13

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“[SpaceX] had used for a temporary emergency telecommunications license on the 20th of January, the sole goal of this license is to provide an web gateway [for Tonga],” he advised Fiji Broadcasting Company. “Room X and FINTEL [Fiji’s international telecoms provider] are at present, nevertheless, in professional negotiations to co-find the earth station and connect to Fiji’s web gateway.”&#13

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On January 17, Dr Shane Reti, a member of the Countrywide Bash in New Zealand, despatched a letter to Musk asking for assistance in restoring Web connectivity with Starlink comms. He uploaded his letter on Twitter on January 21.&#13

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Musk experienced before questioned on Twitter if Tonga preferred SpaceX to mail Starlink terminals, but later on indicated that obtaining World wide web connectivity to the island speedily – as requested by Reti – would be hard.

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Starlink mission.
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“This is a hard point for us to do correct now, as we don’t have sufficient satellites with laser links and there are currently geo sats that serve the Tonga location,” tweeted Musk.&#13

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Pursuing the eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano, Tonga has been limited to a patchy 2G link applying a satellite dish from the University of the South Pacific.&#13

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Refinitiv shipping data, as described by Reuters, displays that cable restore ship Reliance has been off the coastline of Tonga’s key island for almost a 7 days seeking to resolve the destroyed subsea cable.&#13

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— Ken Wieland, contributing editor, unique to Gentle Reading

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