It’s called Starlink and it’s Elon Musk’s new challenge to be able to connect the whole world thanks to innovative satellites that will be launched into space.
The new project by Elon Musk, directed and coordinated by his company SpaceX, is proposed a futuristic and very ambitious goal. Being able to connect the whole world. The project is called Starlink, and its purpose is to send 40,000 satellites they allow into low Earth orbit to hook up any internet connection anywhere on the planet. An enterprise that becomes possible thanks to the particular constitution of these satellites, which in the first place they will be very light, with a weight of about 260 kilograms each. They will be launched, after being sent to the necessary height, by the Falcon 9 rockets. In this innovative project, of course Musk has calculated also possible variables and unexpected events.
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Starlink, the new challenge from Elon Musk
In case, for example, one of these fails, a system has been devised that allows the satellite to be able to return to earth without leaving debris around space and thus preserve the health of our solar system. These will also be equipped with a detection system that will allow to track any bodies traveling in the same direction and which could therefore collide, so that the satellites are able to change course and avoid impact.
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The whole project stands at the moment undergoing beta testing in the US, in the areas considered strategic for the success of what represents perhaps the most ambitious challenge faced by the brilliant South African inventor.
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