{"id":65219,"date":"2018-11-17T11:32:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T16:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65219"},"modified":"2018-11-17T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T17:15:17","slug":"is-spacexs-proposed-starlink-broadband-network-a-good-thing-for-the-world-is-it-even-the-fccs-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/11\/17\/is-spacexs-proposed-starlink-broadband-network-a-good-thing-for-the-world-is-it-even-the-fccs-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Is SpaceX’s proposed Starlink broadband network a good thing for the world? Is it even the FCC’s call?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk receives FCC approval to launch over 7,500 satellites into space<\/strong> <\/a>— from digitaltrends.com by Kelly Hodgkins<\/p>\n

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The FCC this week<\/span>\u00a0unanimously approved<\/a>\u00a0SpaceX\u2019s ambitious plan to launch 7,518 satellites into low-Earth orbit. These satellites, along with 4,425\u00a0<\/span>previously approved satellites<\/a>, will serve as the backbone for the company\u2019s proposed<\/span>\u00a0Starlink broadband network<\/a>.<\/strong> As it does with most of its projects, SpaceX is thinking big with its global broadband network. The company is expected to spend more than $10 billion to build and launch a constellation of satellites that will provide high-speed internet coverage to just about every corner of the planet.<\/p>\n

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To put this deployment in perspective, there are currently only\u00a01,886 active satellites\u00a0presently in orbit. These new SpaceX satellites will increase the number of active satellites six-fold in less than a decade.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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New simulation shows how Elon Musk\u2019s internet satellite network might work<\/strong><\/a> — from digitaltrends.com by Luke Dormehl<\/p>\n

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From Tesla to Hyperloop to plans to colonize Mars, it\u2019s fair to say that Elon Musk thinks big. Among his many visionary ideas is the dream of building a space internet.\u00a0Called Starlink<\/a>, Musk\u2019s ambition is to create a network for conveying a significant portion of internet traffic via thousands of satellites Musk hopes to have in orbit by the mid-2020s. But just how feasible is such a plan? And how do you avoid them crashing into one another?<\/p>\n

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\nIs this even the FCC\u2019s call to make? <\/span><\/p>\n

One one hand, such a network could be globally helpful, positive, and full of pros. But on the other hand, I wonder…what are the potential drawbacks with this proposal? Will nations across the globe launch their own networks — each of which consists of thousands of satellites? <\/span><\/p>\n

While I love Elon\u2019s big thinking, the nations need to weigh in on this one.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elon Musk receives FCC approval to launch over 7,500 satellites into space — from digitaltrends.com by Kelly Hodgkins Excerpt (emphasis DSC): The FCC this week\u00a0unanimously approved\u00a0SpaceX\u2019s ambitious plan to launch 7,518 satellites into low-Earth orbit. These satellites, along with 4,425\u00a0previously approved satellites, will serve as the backbone for the company\u2019s proposed\u00a0Starlink broadband network. As it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,314,318,387,473,45,112,72,210,95,419,458,180,55,309,480,40,460,48,454,195,38,321,367,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-asia","category-australia","category-business","category-canada","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-daniel-s-christian","category-emerging-technologies","category-global-globalization","category-ideas-teaching","category-india","category-innovation","category-internet","category-platforms","category-society","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-technology-general","category-telecommunications","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-uk","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65228,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65219\/revisions\/65228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}