SpaceX's Shotwell: Starlink internet will cost about $10 billion and 'change the world'
CLOSE SpaceX is expected to spend billions on its ambitious goal to construct a massive constellation of internet-beaming satellites that will "change the world," the company's president and chief operating officer said during a conference earlier this month.
From article, (SpaceX is expected to spend billions on its ambitious goal to construct a massive constellation of internet-beaming satellites that will "change the world," the company's president and chief operating officer said during a conference earlier this month.
The project, known as Starlink in federal filings, aims to launch thousands of satellites on SpaceX rockets to low Earth orbit that can eventually beam internet connectivity back down, bypassing the need for complicated ground-based infrastructure. Users, according to the federal documents, need only have a laptop-sized terminal to gain connectivity to the constellation of nearly 12,000 minifridge-sized satellites.
"We actually don't chat very much about this particular project," SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell said during a newly released Technology, Entertainment, Design discussion, also known as a TED Talk. "This is probably one of the most challenging – if not the most challenging – projects we've undertaken."
"It'll cost the company about $10 billion or more to deploy this system," she said.
The statements by Shotwell came nearly a month after SpaceX secured critical authorization from the Federal Communications Commission to begin constructing the constellation. SpaceX, the FCC said, must launch 50 percent of its proposed 4,425 satellites by 2024 and fully complete that first phase by 2027.)
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