Elon Musks ruimtebedrijf SpaceX wants to be with the help of 42,000 satellites all over the world, high-speed internet access offering. For this, you need to know about the project, Starlink.
“I just send them a tweet using a Starlink-satellite,” wrote Musk on the 22nd of October. For more than an hour later, he followed the message up with a slightly surprised-sounding words: “Wow, it really works!”
the Plan for this satellite system were at the beginning of January 2015 is out. The ruimtebedrijf SpaceX to develop Starlink in a breedbandinternetsysteem of the thousands of satellites for paying customers all over the world, high-speed internet access to be provided.
This should be particularly handy in areas where at present hardly any connections to. SpaceX is the site of the rural communities where the existing services are too expensive, or too unreliable. Also, planes, and cruise ships in the Starlink connectivity can be provided.
A Falcon 9 rocket with a sixty-satellites on board was launched. (Photo: Reuters)
Faster internet connection and less glitches,
The idea is to have a connection to the internet via satellite is not something new. There have been in existence for a long time, communication satellites, but there are disadvantages with this approach. Thus, it is through the internetsatellieten is often not a high speed attained through the cable, and you may experience faster performance on.
Starlink to do something different from the existing communication satellites, which are at an altitude of at least 1,000 miles, and many miles later), floating in the air. Of the twelve thousand Starlink satellites used by the U.s. handelswaakhond the FCC, are adopted, there will be eight thousand to 550 miles in height, and four thousand to nearly 1 200 km of altitude.
in Addition to the twelve thousand or authorized satellites in the early SpaceX in October, 2019, an additional licence. In this way, the company has yet to even thousand of satellites in the network, giving a total of 42,000 convenient to you.
The satellites that are located relatively close to the earth, and are connected to each other. The network can be a large amount of data rapidly to the users, send to. From the early tests of the U.s. air force, it turned out that the internet is 610 megabytes-per-second connection was able to make it to the cockpit of an aircraft.
SpaceX shoots sixty of the satellites, and the space in Starlink are going to start this year < / p> SpaceX currently has 240 of the satellites in orbit around the earth. The devices are about the size of a table, and weighing about 260 pounds. They have to be with a dozen at the same time, has been launched. By 2020, allow a minimum of nine launches are scheduled.
Elon Musk, said last year, about a hundred of satellites required to have to have a “limited coverage,” where you have to be able to make it. With eight satellites, and is one of the “average coverage” as possible. The network must be in before the end of 2020, it will be available in the United States and Canada. This is just the beginning, because the before 2021 is a world-wide coverage is planned.
now, Astronomers have expressed their concerns about the project. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), a professional organization of astronomers, said to be afraid of the thousands of low-lying satellites in view from the telescopes will be damaged. That may be the future discoveries in the country.
According to Musk, it could have been. “With the help of possibly billions of marginalized people, it is in the public interest. That being said, we have to ensure that the Starlink astronomical to not get in the way. We are very concerned with the progress of science.”
