Yesterday SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink Internet satellites into space, this is the 17th launch. The Rocket that went into space to take these satellites was the Falcon 9, which had already made 7 other flights previously. This flight was a tremendous success, Falcon 9 carried the 60 Starlink satellites and returned undamaged to the SpaceX ship.
Here at News Geek I had already done other articles talking about this SpaceX project, but maybe you are new here on the site. If this is your first time browsing here and you don't know what project this is, don't worry, I'll talk again.
SpaceX simply wants to assemble a huge constellation of at least 30,000 satellites in Earth orbit, but why so many? To create a huge Internet provider network that reaches anywhere in the world and at high speed. However, so far there are only about a thousand satellites already in orbit, there is still a lot of work ahead.
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SpaceX, Starlink's Internet Is Already In Beta Phase
Despite having less than a thousand satellites in space, SpaceX's Starlink is already testing its internet in some cities around the world. The countries where we have cities of yours that already receive internet signal are the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Users who are participating in these tests have already reported that the internet currently has just over 120 Mb/s in Download speed. For this project to gain better performance, it is necessary to send more satellites to the orbit of our planet.
Could this high number of satellites in space be harmful?
I already want to say that this growing number of SpaceX satellites with the objective of taking Starlink internet to the world worries astronomers. This is because these satellites are in low orbit and according to astronomers they can limit scientific discoveries, this because of interference in space studies.
The problem would actually be the brightness of the satellites, which were visible to the naked eye, but SpaceX has already solved this problem. However, these spacecraft are still visible through telescope observations and thus leave traces in the images.
Elon Musk who is the CEO of SpaceX has already spoken about this problem and said that he will not rest until he solves it.
Elon Musk's Plan
You will most likely remember that I recently said that there are still not even a thousand Starlink satellites in orbit around the earth. However, this was not Elon Musk's initial plan, he predicted to close the year 2020 with about 1,500.
Well, it's notorious that it delayed the number of satellites launched by Starlink into space, but this may have been due to the pandemic.
Anyway, this was an article I made with the aim of talking about the latest information about SpaceX's Stalink satellite launches. If you liked the content, share it with all your friends and on all your Social Networks.
