Tag: orbit
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are already messing with astronomical research but there are thousands more planned
SpaceX Elon Musk’s commercial space firm SpaceX has a job named Starlink whose aim is to launch up to 42,000 satellites to orbit to supply global high-speed net. There are only 120 Starlink satellites currently in orbit, but they have already started to develop into a issue for astronomical observatories, which makes streaks and even…
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SpaceX’s plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell
What’s up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk’s pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, she discusses SpaceX’s race to put people into orbit and the organization’s next big project, the BFR (ask her what it stands for). The new giant…