Connect at Sea

September 27, 2022

Royal Caribbean Group recently implemented SpaceX’s Starlink, making it the first in the cruise industry to adopt its high-speed, low-latency connectivity fleetwide. The broadband internet service will be installed on all current Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises ships, along with any new ships that come out moving forward.  Installation across the company’s fleet is scheduled for completion by the end of the first quarter of 2023. The new service will improve and enable more high-bandwidth activities like video streaming as well as activities like video calls. Starlink is an interconnected internet network of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit that SpaceX envisions will deliver high-speed internet anywhere on the planet. The company has launched about 2,700 satellites to date!