Share with friends and circles of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > < / P > < p > on March 23, SpaceX has notified customers by email to increase the price of its satellite internet service, and the star chain equipment terminals and monthly subscription fees of ordinary users have increased. Among them, the price of equipment terminals rose from $499 to $599 per set, and the monthly subscription fee rose from $99 to $110 < p > the company said, "the only purpose of price adjustment is to keep pace with rising inflation." < p > previously, users needed to spend $499 in advance to buy a set of terminal equipment to connect to SpaceX's satellite Internet. In addition, users need to pay $99 a month to keep the service running. Now, the monthly rent of star chain service is $110. All new users who order terminals now need to pay $599, while those who previously paid a deposit for the terminal and haven't paid in full need to pay $549 to get the equipment < p > Star chain advanced services are not affected by this price adjustment. Although Gwynne shotwell, President of SpaceX, had previously said that the company had no plans to increase the price level of star chain services. However, SpaceX launched the star chain advanced service at the beginning of this year. The corresponding user's cost for purchasing terminal equipment is $2500 and the monthly rent is $500, so they can obtain Satellite Internet services with better performance < p > SpaceX aims to launch tens of thousands of satellites through the satellite chain program to cover the world with broadband Internet. To access the satellite link service, users must aim the terminal equipment at a large open sky and connect with the satellite overhead. These satellites transmit signals to SpaceX's ground stations on the ground, which are connected to the existing optical fiber infrastructure. So far, SpaceX has launched more than 2000 satellite chains. According to reports, an executive of SpaceX said this week that the star chain service has 250000 users worldwide < p > when SpaceX first started providing star chain services, the cost of manufacturing each set of terminal equipment was about $3000, which means that SpaceX has been selling terminal equipment to customers at a discount. In April 2021, shortwell said that SpaceX had succeeded in reducing manufacturing costs, and the cost of each set of terminal equipment had been reduced to $1300. In August of that year, schottewell also said that the user terminal cost manufactured by SpaceX at the end of 2021 was "about half of our current user terminal manufacturing cost" < p > SpaceX announced the price increase in an email to star chain customers and said that the company had made some improvements to the whole star chain system. "Since we launched the public test service in October 2020, the satellite chain team has tripled the number of satellites in orbit, quadrupled the number of ground stations, and continuously improved our network," the email said. "Looking forward to the future, users can expect the star chain to continue to improve the network and add new functions." (Chen Chen) < / P > < p >