United Airlines has received clearance to offer Starlink Wi-Fi service on regional jets starting next month. The service will be free for members of the carrier’s frequent flyer program. Other aircraft models will have to wait a while longer as the companies are still in the process of getting FAA approval for those jets.

United Airlines said the FAA has approved its first Starlink-equipped aircraft type and that the first commercial flight is planned for May.

seUnited Airlines has been approved to begin operating flights with onboard Starlink satellite internet service. The Federal Aviation Administration issued the airline a certificate to operate the service on its fleet of Embraer 175 aircraft, with United expecting to install the SpaceX service on all 300 of the regional jets by the end of the year.

SpaceX on Monday launched another batch of satellites from Starlink mission launches from Florida on Monday afternoon, about 5 1/2 hours before another Falcon 9 nearby sent a privately funded crew into space.

SpaceX launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth over both North and South Poles, a new trajectory that no human has travelled before. The mission will last three to five days,