Starlink, a rib of SpaceX, is the project to create a satellite telecommunications constellation developed by Elon Musk and his team to provide satellite access to the Internet anywhere in the world.
Thousands of small satellites launched into low Earth orbit will work in conjunction with our devices on earth. Elon Musk talks about his creation as a Big Idea that could change the way of telecommunications, and the approach we use to think and access the world around us.
Because Starlink is a strong acceleration
Telecommunications could change radically with this mode of action. The pandemic has shown us how much we rely on the Internet and how necessary it is to manage our lives, access knowledge and communicate with others far from us.
This is why Starlink can quickly become the absolute leader in connectivity, disrupting and revitalizing another future dying industry.
A big hand for telecommunications
For the Starlink company to become big down here, it needs a lot of infrastructure up there. The backbone of yet another of Musk's projects are his satellites, which will act as a source for the wireless communication system designed by the tycoon.
A flood of small satellites that Starlink is launching in droves, testing them gradually. Not without problems: both encountered and provoked (like light pollution which confuses satellites with real stars of the firmament, annoying astronomers).
Yet the concept of the project is ambitious and aims to eliminate space debris: at the end of their "career", in fact, Musk's satellites will be able to "move" on their own to remove them from orbit. They will drift away from orbit, or disintegrate in the atmosphere.
What Starlink will produce
Starlink aims to start its services in the United States and Canada this year (with a delay of a few months due to Covid-19). It then plans to rapidly expand to near-global telecommunications coverage in the populated world by 2021.
The main advantage for which we will use Starlink is quick and easy access to the Internet from anywhere in the world. Just to name one: imagine having Starlink in Italy, being on a solitary mountain in the Maiella and having a 233 MBPS Internet connection, much higher than today's mixed fibre-copper connection.
The revolutionary scope of this project is directly proportional to the degree of telecommunications development of the beneficiary countries. If they are developing, with obvious connection problems, a stable and super-fast planetary Internet will open a thousand new doors for them.
