What Elon Musk’s 42,000 Satellites Could Do To Earth

2,476,187 views Oct 8, 2020 #Space#SpaceTechnology#TechInsider

Over the next few decades, Elon Musk is hoping to send 42,000 Starlink satellites to space. With these satellites, SpaceX hopes to bring high-speed satellite internet to every corner of the world. But experts worry it may come at a hefty cost, blocking astronomers’ views and potentially space exploration for decades.

If You Could See Every Satellite, What Would The Sky Look Like? 360/VR

1,253,169 views Nov 14, 2019There are over ten thousand satellites in orbit, but only the largest ones in low earth orbit are visible in the hours just after sunset. What would the sky look like if you could see everything in space? I took satellite data and rendered a view of the night sky for an ‘average’ viewer in North America. All the code and files needed to make this are shared with my supporters at Patreon

Mysterious Satellite Captured on Camera: The UnXplained 

1,733,776 views Nov 6, 2022 #TheUnXplained

While constructing the international space station, astronauts capture a strange object on camera, which raises suspicions around the world. See more in this clip from Season 3, “The Search For Extraterrestrial Life.”

How Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Bringing In Billions For SpaceX

4,873,559 views Nov 11, 2023 #CNBC

Starlink is SpaceX’s answer to providing global, high-speed internet coverage using a network of thousands of satellites buzzing around the planet in a region known as low Earth orbit (LEO), about 342 miles above the Earth’s surface. SpaceX launched its first batch of Starlink satellites back in 2019, and since then, adoption of the service has ballooned.

Starlink now has over 2 million active customers and is available on all 7 continents and in over 60 countries. Starlink has been praised for its ability to connect remote parts of the world that would otherwise not have access to reliable internet. The service has also become indispensable in areas hit by natural disasters, and, more recently, during times of war, particularly the Russia-Ukraine war. But Starlink’s growing influence is garnering condemnation from some who say that SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk is meddling in geopolitics, while the scientific community is raising alarms of the effect of thousands of satellites on radio and optical astronomy.