The CEO of SpaceX in Elon Musk recently proceeded on to announce that SpaceX’s Starlink project will launch a private beta in as few as three months. This announcement came courtesy of a tweet.
This project is designed to bring internet to rural communities via thousands and thousands of tiny satellites which will actually begin in high latitudes with a “private beta” set to kick in about three months, the CEO said.
While SpaceX has launched only 360 satellites as of last month, the company does aim to have as many as 12,000 in the low orbit by the end of this decade. The company along with others such as Amazon and also possibly Apple, hopes to fill the void that exists in the world’s communications infrastructure which has gone on to leave a major rift between the well-connected urban cities and rural areas without there being any sort of decent networking infrastructure.
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It is also quite possible that SpaceX might actually spin out Starlink as a separate company from SpaceX. Indeed, Gwen Shotwell, who happens to be the chief operating officer down at SpaceX was quoted to have said : “Right now, we are a private company, but Starlink is the right kind of business that we can to ahead and take public. That particular piece is an element of the business that we are likely to spin out and go public.”
Contrary to the statements that followed the COO though, the CEO Elon Musk had other ideas as he proceeded on to reject the idea that a spinoff was even being considered.
Coming back to the sheer idea of internet-satellites, the idea has in fact been met with its fair share of criticism. Indeed Astronomers have shown great concern ever since the idea has been pointed towards practicality, as they are worried with regards to the huge influx of satellites being placed in space – claiming that these could have negative ramifications for ground-based observers.
