World's Leading Private Space Tech Company (Space X has launched)
Starlink Network
Aim: Low cost, reliable internet services
Presently - Fibre Optic Cables and wirless network through mobile towers used to provide internet services.
Will Provide Internet Services through cluster of spacecrafts(In Lower Earth Orbit)
Starlink Satellites - Hall Thrusters - electricity + Krypton Gas - Generate Impulse
Helps in - Manuevre in Orbit + Maintain Altitude - guide space craft back into atmosphere at end of mission.
One of several efforts for beaming data signals from space. Another Effort - Project Kuiper - By Amazon (Jeff Bezos)
Existing space based internet systems - Geo - stationary satellites - 35,000 Km
Starlink - Low Earth Orbit - 2000 Km - reduces latency + More viable than traditional methods - overcomes problems of remote areas + Difficult terrain.
