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Elon Musk
18
Sep

Elon Musk’s Next Big Thing Is 40,000 Satellites Beaming Broadband

September 18, 2020
He hopes low-Earth orbits will help him succeed where so many others have failed. Bloomberg Businessweek September 17, 2020 By Thomas Pfeiffer and Thomas Seal Every few years, someone comes along promising to disrupt the satellite industry. They burn through billions in cash before ambition crashes back down to Earth. Since the late 1990s, Globalstar, Iridium, Leosat, Skybridge, Teledesic,...
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16
Oct

SpaceX submits paperwork for 30,000 more Starlink satellites

October 16, 2019
Updated Oct. 15 at 6:18 p.m. Eastern to include a statement from SpaceX. WASHINGTON — SpaceX has asked the International Telecommunication Union to arrange spectrum for 30,000 additional Starlink satellites. SpaceX, which is already planning the world’s largest low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation by far, filed paperwork in recent weeks for up to 30,000 additional Starlink satellites...
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