SpaceX Starlink satellite network increasing to 42,000 satellites!?

[@MarcusHouse]

At 1:22 I mistakenly said 75,000kph. I misspoke. I meant to say "over 7,500 metres per second". Just had a daft moment there. #OnlyHuman.

[@davidcadman4468]

Not a problem, next year you will be able to correct that with a software app :D

[@omsi-fanmark]

One question: While I like space-related content, I'd like to know if you have abandoned making KSP videos!? I haven't seen a new one for six months.

[@EVRose60]

@@ZackWolfMusic Go away troll.

[@omsi-fanmark]

@@ZackWolfMusic And earth is flat or what? And climate change isn't real nor humanmade either? If you believe that, you're even more stupid than Trump. And that is quite hard.

[@EVRose60]

@@ZackWolfMusic You're being lied to by conspiracy nuts on KZbin. You should lay off that shit before you destroy what little brain power you have left. I'm being serious.

[@billyjo9127]

I used to live in the middle of nowhere. We had one choice for internet, which was dish satellite internet. It couldn't load a 480p video and had a 2gb limit. So yeah, I'd say there's a shit load of demand out there to actually give rural people a choice. And that's just in the United States. I think about 50 percent of the developing world has no internet, but if they did, they would have access to all the information I do, which is an awesome thought.

[@DarthVader20201]

billy jo I don't know what he plans for these satellites on Earth. Looks they are going through tests. I think it's not for to beat out a new type of Internet network.m

[@Im-mv6bf]

@@ossiedunstan4419 the NBN was a joke to begin with... as for your speeds, how far are you from the node (the node should be located somewhere on your street or neighboring streets..) what you are actually paying for is 50mb/s to be pushed out to your premise but you are certainly never going to get that speed if you are far away from the node. The distance from my house to the node is about 40m.. just across the street!!!.. i pay for 100mb/s and get roughly 80.. 40m away from the node and 20mb/s drop.. that should tell you how shit the nbn is.

[@terryfuldsgaming7995]

@@DarthVader20201 it's not a new internet network, it's a new internet service provider... it's like the difference between dial up, dsl, fiber optic, and geostationary satellite. But it will be orbiting satellites.

[@Owen741.]

I mean theyll probably starve to death but atleast theyll have internet

[@holyravioli5795]

I think food and water is more of a priority in the developing world.

[@EricDec]

I think the day Starlink becomes the world internet leader, Musk will become way richer than Bezos and he will have hundreds of billions to spend on his Mars colony.

[@johntheux9238]

What about tesla?

[@TonyGrant.]

@@johntheux9238 He died some time ago

[@johntheux9238]

@@TonyGrant. Not this one ^^

[@TonyGrant.]

@@johntheux9238 Twas a joke. BTW - I didn't get your point about Tesla

[@johntheux9238]

@@TonyGrant. Tesla will quickly grow.

[@joeguiomar2626]

I can't wait to dump my service provider up here in Toronto Canada, these crooks need to learn a lesson, I hope Elon and Space X does cellular service too! I would love to contribute my hard earned dollars to a company that will make a contribution to humanity as comprehensively as everything Elon Musk does! Love your videos!

[@wayne.edward.clarke]

Cellular telephone and SMS text service are both going obsolete fast. I can do everything they can do with messenger programs and video call as well, for far less money, if I have Internet to my phone.

[@joshuakuehn]

Same! I live in the Santa Cruz mountains and all we have is Comcast and I am TIRED of them. I'd rather fund Elon's Mars base then some dudes 5th Ferrari.

[@cambobby2011]

Same thing here, Quebec, Canada!!! Crooks!!!

[@Palau_Legend]

Let’s just pretend Elon is secretly testing out his plans for a Dyson sphere

[@ProfezorSnayp]

Not a well kept secret, that's for sure.

[@AbisekGaming]

Jacques Souvenir lol 😂

[@Petriefied0246]

You mean it isn't?

[@phragmitesaustralis5433]

So…42,0000 means 42? The answer to everything?

[@johntheux9238]

He cannot do it with superheavy/starship engines so he did with starlink ^^

[@Danafondo]

Well recognized.

[@happyguy8725]

Great movie

[@andrewremobs9854]

"Communities where existing services are too expensive or unreliable" Oh, you mean most of Australia?

[@MarcusHouse]

I'm lucky in Tassie. We have FTTP where I am.

[@darkmatter9607]

@@MarcusHouse yeah u might have that and yet thats still shitty compared to the rest of the worlds internet infrastructure

[@MrGeneralScar]

@@darkmatter9607 Aint that the truth, I think us AU lot were like 24th best internet connectivity when they proposed this NBN and started planning it. Now we are like 48th best or something, and NBNCo still bragging about being "half done" when the original plan stated the entire network should be done by the end fo 2018 in FTTP.

[@TheManEthan]

And most of the US

[@Garryck-1]

You mean, like on every ocean everywhere? Once you get more than 10km or so offshore from major landmasses, *THERE IS NO INTERNET* .. There are a few satellite phone companies, who charge ridiculously high prices for data speeds that make dial-up modems (remember those?) look blazingly fast by comparison. All they're good for is short text messages and emails. Attachments? Forget it! Too expensive! Remote island nations, and every sailor on the planet, are *praying* for the day Starlink comes online.

[@minervali631]

I remember when I was in high school in the eastern township, Quebec, Canada, in 2016, roughly a third of my classmates did not have internet connection at home due to the high cost of fiber internet in Canada. They use cellular networks to connect to the internet, either from their parents' phones or their own.

[@TroySavary]

Just because Quebec is stuck in the last century doesn't mean that the rest of Canada is. I don't know anyone who does not have internet at home.

[@lopezb]

@@TroySavary You mean all the people you chat with on internet have internet? Interesting....

[@TroySavary]

@@lopezb You can talk to people face to face. Unbelievable concept, I know.

[@excitedbox5705]

People arguing that they will crash into each other don´t realize how much just how much space there is out there. If you put them all in a circle they will be spaced over 1km apart. Also since they all move the same speed they will essentially be standing still in relation to each other. If they were moving towards each other something would have to go seriously wrong and even then their relational velocity would most likely be very low so we would have months to move them out of the way. All this ignores the fact that space has a 3rd dimension so by spacing them at different altitudes only a couple hundred would ever be moving in the same plane spread across an area of millions of square miles.

[@Maddinhpws]

The problem is that all these stupid graphics show that stuff as way too big. These graphics of space junk depict something as big as a football to be as large as fucking New York.

[@strategicthinker8899]

Exactly. 30.000 suitcases spread equally around the globe means you NEVER see one unless you know their exact location and are actively looking for one. I don't know why people are blowing this thing completely out of proportion? The chicken little syndrome? These animations are done by some really inept people. In reality you wouldn't even see the dots that's how small they are. They drew dots as big as a city or bigger! Just complete misinformation and incompetence and Marcus House shows that stupidity, without thinking. Stop scaring unintelligent people so they freak out for no reason, please.

[@danielharris3827]

The real big advantage is the low latency. Star Link will be able to connect markets faster than the current optic cables. Milliseconds in markets are $$$

[@JohnnyMotel99]

@SpinazFou Analysis shows massive gains in latency, depending on location, I cannot see banks and traders not taking advantage of this.

[@piotrd.4850]

Speed != Latency != Jitter

[@piotrd.4850]

@@JohnnyMotel99 That's entire premise of Real Engineerg video on subject.

[@Whataboutit]

Well done! Thanks, Marcus! ;)

[@MarcusHouse]

Cheers mate. Looking forward to your next video.

[@chocolarda]

Ooo some of my favourite spacetubers in one place

[@anthonypelchat]

Several other possible usages for Starlink involve anything or anyone that travels frequently. Planes, ships, trains, and RVs are already using sat internet. All current sat internet users. Tim Dodd and anyone like him who travel frequently for work. There are many, many possible usages for Starlink. I will try to get it asap to both replace Comcast & ATT and to be able to travel and still work easily.

[@davidcadman4468]

I've noticed that my 3rd party provider, Teksavvy has up it's base speed... that's not even fiber... They run on Bell copper the last mile... I'm guessing that soon the big boys will be upping their offereings, to try to compete... but why stay with them, when it goes from mb to gb speeds for the same money... that's what Elon is offering...

[@anthonypelchat]

@@davidcadman4468 I agree. I've been screwed over by Comcast long enough that I don't want to go with them. And ATT just finally offered decent speeds in my area. Still don't like them either. With Starlink, I'll be able to travel or live in random locations without having to worry about internet. That may sound weird for some, but I only need decent internet access to be able to work.

[@TotalGAMIX]

@@davidcadman4468 and that money is also going to help fund space travel and all of elons projects

[@1nvertedReality]

I work as a telescope technician. I operate an old 3 meter telescope. We chase satellites a couple times a year to measure surface deterioration. Well one of our visiting teams do. Fun stuff. Hard to track sometimes let alone find. They are always moving in different directions than the stars we normally study. Imagine looking trough a straw at a distant object a mile out and a bird flies across that path 200 feet away. You're not likely to even notice. While on long exposure astronomical targets I don't think I have ever even seen a satellite or heard one of the astronomers curse about it. And if I did it would just pass through the exposure so fast it wouldn't affect it. Just another streak of light to be subtracted. If it was able to saturate the image reflecting the suns light it might ruin one exposure. Each object has multiple exposures in red and blue. Two years operating and never seen any of the thousands of targets acquired blocked by anything other than the moon. That happens pretty regularly and there is zero doubt about what it is. We work around it! Don't see a problem for ground based astronomy. Maybe a real astronomer can give a reason, don't know. Might be a market for tracking and analyzing them for deterioration. That is a big fleet of future retirements.

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

even with 42,000 satellites in LEO, the odds of even one of them occulting a star you happen to be looking at in the dead of night are infinitesimally small.

[@strategicthinker8899]

Exactly. All these chicken little "experts" winding up the public for self aggrandizement.

[@streamdungeon5166]

I think the handful of Astronomers are far outweighed by the interests of billions that get fast internet. And there are always space telescopes.

[@eliparker4114]

Plus, airplanes are always going to be a bigger nuisance than satellites are to astronomers. Airplanes have lights on them, move relatively slowly, and cause disturbances in the atmosphere. Satellites fly in and out of the field of view very quickly and mostly just block or reflect light rather than producing lots of their own with big light bulbs.

[@davidupton8880]

@@eliparker4114 When engaging in long exposure imaging (which most scientific and amatuer astronomical applications entail) satellites leave long trails across the image and there are quite a few as is. While progress is inevitable it should still be appreciated what sacrifices are going to be necessary. Space based telescopes are fantastic instruments but they are way too few and too ungodly expensive to get the job done.

[@joeschneider3072]

@Spaceman Wow you really like the word "vapid". LMAO

[@TroySavary]

@Spaceman Like commenting on KZbin videos?

[@TroySavary]

@Spaceman Agreed. But still just as inane as any other use of the internet?

[@bttmndl]

1 satelite = $ 1/2 million dollar 42000 sat = $21 billion launch cost per sat = 100k total launch cost = $ 5 billion ground stuff -infrastructure = $ 2 billion in total = $ 28 billion project will bring $ 50 billion/year profit. To put that in prospective amazon's revenue for 2018 is $ 242 billion and they just made $ 11 billion in profit

[@Maddinhpws]

And they believe they can get the launch cost down by a large margin as well.

[@keirmedia9602]

Thanks for the effort you out into your videos! Love to see these updates it's very exciting.

[@FrostyDog9186]

Just because a constellation of satellites is approved for launch doesn't mean Space X has to launch any or all of them. Sing governmental approvals take a significant amount of time, the point of getting them now is to provide headroom for growth so that there are always enough extra approved "slots" that Space X can put new satellites on orbit as quickly as they need to to meet demand.

[@jayw6034]

With regards to the light pollution for ground based observation, it seems like the launch capabilities needed to put 42k satellites into to orbit economically would make launching orbital telescopes a lot easier and cheaper as well... assuming it turns out to be a problem.

[@matthewconnor5483]

Imagine the telescopes you could launch with a cargo version of Starship.

[@piotrd.4850]

@@matthewconnor5483 better yet, original version of ITS :D

[@somewherenorthofstarbase7056]

The basic public stance of SpaceX is that they are not planning on replacing the current predatory internet providers. But we all deep down would love competition with the current ISPs to bring down price and provide better service.

[@dejayrezme8617]

But why wouldn't they do that? Maybe it's just a tactic them saying they won't compete. You could save many more billions in infrastructure with a few measly satellites.

[@donnyburklow4508]

I can't wait to get Starlink internet along with many of us here in Central Oregon.

[@tma2001]

AT&T 1994: "think of our electronic meeting place as the cloud." SpaceX 2019: hold my beer! btw I doubt it's a coincidence that the owner of Amazon Web Services is launching his own constellation.

[@Kflash3782]

Your "hold my beer..." example and use is the best I've seen.

[@tma2001]

Why thank you @@Kflash3782 I'm surprised Elon didn't call it Skynet :) p.s. after a quick search, a global delivery company has already taken it :(

[@theambergryphon4266]

@@tma2001 I think Starlink is better than Skynet though. It goes with Starship too.

[@warhawkme6344]

Well done Marcus. There is that number again...42.

[@TonyGrant.]

Indeed. Sonoluminescence is another. Water glows at 42,000hz!

[@levieugene4810]

The graphic representation of the 12k and 42k satellites is not actually accurate. They wont be even visible due to their sizes, which means having 42k satellites wont put even a small dent in the available orbit capacity.

[@MarcusHouse]

Very true. Pretty much impossible to show anything to scale in a useful way like this. The volume of space in LEO is huge. Not sure if people fully comprehend just how big it is.

[@RaymondVolker]

I've watched videos saying that shipping Internet/TV costs $10k's/Month and costs $100k's in tracking dishes 3-4 per ship. All this to give sub Mbit/s speeds. So a Pizza size box and Gigabit speeds would be orders of Magnitude improvement and reduction in costs.

[@nomebear]

Having worked in bleeding edge technology most of my working career, none of Space X's projections seem unreasonable. What will be diminished is hard wire.

[@Myrddnn]

I'm gonna make sure I'm on it as soon as it's available.

[@mayank_upadhyay_19]

Suppose, 1 satellite cost = $1 1 satellite to LEO cost = $2 1 satellite total cost = $3 now, calculate for 42k satellites. 42k satellite cost = $42k 42k satellite to LEO cost = $84k 42k satellite total cost = $126k ***$126,000*** Now, you only have to replace the cost of each satellite with it's real cost and real cost of taking it to LEO. ***Earth, starts sweating***

[@THX..1138]

With a satellite lifespan of 5 years SpaceX would have to launch 700 satellites a month to maintain a network of 42,000. They'd be deorbiting about 1 sat per hour. Clearly Falcon 9 isn't capable of either initially installing or maintaining so large a network they would need Starship to get it done.

[@737smartin]

THX 1138 Fortunately, they’re working on Starship. It’s a brilliant plan: Make a space launch system amazingly affordable per-launch if you use it enough, then make a profit scheme that PROVIDES loads of business for that launch system.

[@joeschneider3072]

Don't you think with all the advances and improvements that SpaceX make on a regular, ridiculous time frame, that they will improve the longevity of the satellites? Bring down cost of replacements? I'm betting on 10+ years of service on each very rapidly. They simply have to in order to keep it viable.

[@737smartin]

Joe Schneider That’s very possible. It’s also likely that by 5 yrs, the tech in newer sats will make it worth replacing the old.

[@joeschneider3072]

@@737smartin Also a very good point. Thank you sir!

[@TroySavary]

Stop letting logic get in the way of people fellating Musk in comments.

[@kevinm3751]

One thing about it, someone wants to sign up there should be no annoying message when you put your address in telling you that service is not yet available in your area...;)

[@Spkr4TRUTH]

My current latency ping is 617 while gaming online.. on a good day, with satellite internet. Can’t wait for this network to come online

[@zhackzoey149]

I hate terrible service internet, I hope this one help people alot.

[@cacogenicist]

Man, if you could get a reliable 200 Mbps up and down, anywhere on Earth, remote workers would sure have some options. And the "digital nomad" people wouldn't have to cluster around places that are both reasonably cheap _and_ have not-completely-horrible Internet access speeds. 4k video streaming and very high quality video conferencing in a hut in the Amazon basin, or at your middle-of-nowhere placer mine cabin in Alaska, etc. Next we need super-fast drone delivery services to very remote locations. :-)

[@barry99705]

@Jerry L Kreps Not available everywhere though. My folks place, which is only 7 miles from me can only get sat internet, and it's crap. Here I am with 1gbps cable.

[@Maddinhpws]

@Jerry L Kreps The thing is though. That shit needs to have cables laid out. Do you want to lay down a glass fibre cable to somewhere in the Amazon basin where there is nobody in a 100 mile radius? Most likely you won't, not worth it. I mean I would be stuck at low speeds of 6mbit if it wasn't for my government finally making a good investment being sick of constantly being on the lowest places when it comes to internet. Now I will be upgraded to 1000mbit next year.

[@CalBart42]

if it works then every other isp would become redundant .. Australia has just spent $60-$70 billion on optic fiber which will all be a big waste of money ... i am presuming all one would need to connect is a satalite dish

[@TroySavary]

Fiber optic cable carries way more bandwidth than satellite internet.

[@TraditionalAnglican]

Troy Savary - But, you’re comparing fiber optic cable to a 120 satellite constellation using older tech satellites, not a 42,000 satellite constellation with new tech satellites which would have 700x the throughput.

[@CalBart42]

@@TroySavary.. i can not take my fibre optic cable anywhere that i go ... with this system there is no place that i can go where i will not be able to connect ... i will not need another service.. especially if i buy a tesla that will be connected to it 24/7

[@ruwatching3818]

So maybe in the near future a company will create a space vehicle to collect space junk

[@brandonryan9582]

It's almost impossible, lets forget about the design and getting it into space, these objects are traveling faster than bullets, so to slow them down you'd have to get upto their speed and on their orbit route and then somehow catch them without destroying the entire vehicle. And that's just 1 single piece. To put into prospective try catching a moving bullet by throwing a tin can into its path at the exact same speed as the bullet

[@calebharris4127]

Brandon Lee oi unfortunately you’re unaware of how space and orbit works :

[@brandonryan9582]

Space doesn't work, it just is. And I know I'm no expert but what I do know is catching things in space is really difficult that's why America still can't catch Russian or Chinese satellites even tho they've spent billions trying

[@davidgreen5994]

@@brandonryan9582 Actually is not all that difficult to collect space junk, there are several for that matter. Contrary to what you think, most of them do not travel at insane speeds. Anyway, plans have been made, there is the possibility to place large nets on the orbit, and trap the bigger pieces together in them, and increase their mass so they fall faster into the atmosphere, or even give them a push. You can place shields similar to the ones that protect the space station on the routes of the smaller ones, and then collect them in a place. But probably, the most efficient and used technology will the laser technology, the death ray, the same technology that is used by the army to destroy rockets and drones. For larger objects, they can use projectile with nets to disintegrate them and push them into the atmosphere. Cleaning the mess is not impossible, nor that difficult... is going to be a lot of work and ongoing activity, but is possible. The hardest part is getting the infrastructure up there... and is not even technical as it is financial. NASA has a limited budget, and it depends a lot on politics. With projects like JW telescope, returning to the moon, Mars missions, and drones on Europa and Titan is hard to secure the huge funds necessary for such a project. So it's up to the private companies to do, once they see a way to make lots of money out of it.

[@FreeStuffPlease]

@earthly firefly5 Ive never seen someone troll someone by just posting a random stupid quote. Amazing awesome job.

[@alhajmousa]

your channel will get multi million subscribers soon bro, you are doing great job, keep it up

[@mattfarrar5472]

It's funny that I will probably get Starlink before the NBN

[@congorecluse8111]

Ha ha ha ha ha. My sentiments exactly!

[@drew-azureperthwestaust4818]

Exactly before Australia's NBN national broadband internet (fiber optic cable infrastructure) currently being rolled out across the country its already obselete with 5G plans and Starlink. Then consider the data rate Starlink can petentially provide upto 610mbps ie their mililitary testing shows and NBN ? Uhm 50-100mbps ....opps thats embarressing

[@RamblingRodeo]

No one mentions that this is a test bed for Mars, Mars has no global communication system this would be ideal to solving that issue. I am surprised that SpaceX hasnt look at getting rid of space junk as it also presents a concern with launching.

[@barry99705]

The problem with dead satellites is they're still the property of the country that launched them. You can't just take them down.

[@shepherdsknoll8]

I’ll subscribe to Starlink in a heartbeat, as soon as it is available, no matter the cost.

[@iemandjwzz4614]

This might be a stupid question but why doenst spacex use a falcon heavy so they can get more sattelities into orbit per launch?

[@marvinmartinsYT]

Cost

[@mikaelgaiason688]

I live in a city and light pollution is already so bad that if I want to see stars I have to use a stargazer app on my phone anyway, so there might as well be more of them.

[@Maddinhpws]

Hell I live in a village and by the low amount of stars I see, the night sky will actually look more beautiful if there is a constant stream of the Starlink Swarm lighting it up.

[@constitutiondefender1385]

Why can't we see any satellites between earth and the moon? There supposedly are thousands surrounding earth out at 22,000 miles between earth and the moon but none are ever seen. Why?

[@SporeSpood]

I'm studying physics and a lot of my friends study astronomy. From what I understand, the starlink satalites won't be that big of a problem because often astronomers are averaging over large periods of time. It adds some unnecessary noise which always sucks, but it could be worse.

[@shagwellington]

Starlink is another great thing Musk is doing for mankind. He's an amazing person.

[@stevetobin7495]

Shag Wellington hes a fraud as is space x..

[@jamesdoermann233]

Shag Wellington Elon musk is a strange odd unit that has found his way to earth question you

[@TotalGAMIX]

@@stevetobin7495 stupid idiot

[@darrenjames5795]

This is for the U.N and for there agenda 21

[@bobh9492]

If Starlink sells services to traders that shave a few microseconds off trades theyll be able to make billions from just one potential market.

[@TotalGAMIX]

With that kind of money elon will shape the world

[@Maddinhpws]

Starlink is expected to increase the speed by like 14 milliseconds or around that time. A few years ago they paid 600 million to make a cable that increases speeds by 5 milliseconds.

[@ThomasKelly.]

Great info! Although, 75,000 km/hour? LEO Speeds are generally 28,000 km/hour (17,500 miles/hour). Of course there is no way to change orbital speed at a given altitude.

[@johntheux9238]

For head-on collision?

[@MarcusHouse]

Oops. I misspoke there. My mistake.

[@nicok.2751]

It would have be interresting to mention the collision avoidance maneuver that SpaceX did NOT do with ESA Satellite... Sometime grabing under the cover of SpaceX Website could be more interesting instead of just reading marketing communication. Thanks.

[@RM-hr7ug]

700 launches?! At 60 per launch. Presumably starship will be used to reduce that. Still many launches.

[@EricDec]

Can you get Internet directly from Starlink or do you have to go through a local provider? I wonder if Starlink could mean the end of internet censorship.

[@MarcusHouse]

I believe the idea is that you would purchase or hire a specific Starlink antenna (about the size of a pizza box from memory). You would pay them directly I would assume. I can't wait to see some real demos of it in action.

[@TonyGrant.]

I have always assumed it would be a bit like an existing satellite internet or TV subscription.

[@antonisautos8704]

Most likely something similar to a satellite phone, you buy the phone and it connects to the satellite.. but in this case with internet

[@richardthomson4693]

Not sure if spacex / star link want to deal with people ringing up and saying "my internets doesn't work" betting starlink will wholesale the system out. I would put money on starlink wholesaling it based on countries. Otherwise they have to start a company with 24/7 customer support for the world covering every language and every governments rules and regulation

[@flareonspotify]

Elon musk does everything on his own so all the money would go directly to his company’s

[@garrinlau5235]

Maybe these satellites not just for the network because there are too expensive. They may be used in 3 ways, I guess. 1. Some kind of weapon to protect the whole earth from the threat of outer space. 2. It will be a network to support the launch of Mars. 3. Some kind of basic structure to make a huge Dyson sphere. No matter what, I think it must have cooperated with Aliens.

[@alextell7019]

they arnt too expensive, with a world wide market space x could bring in more in a year than the cost to launch them

[@raymorley8241]

Do you really believe this system is for the internet? 42 thousand sats in orbit so some guy in the middle of the jungle can watch a re-run of Gilligans Island or buy something on Ebay?

[@LEDewey_MD]

Thanks for the great update!

[@kurtlowder3276]

how many satellites will starship be able to carry in a single trip?

[@patou19x]

kurt lowder last time it was 60 I think but it probably increase

[@radwizard]

Not worried about the astronomers access to view the stars. To be honest, the ground based telescopes are quickly becoming obsolete. Telescopes like the Webb and in the near future Moon based telescopes will lend more to science. Also a mention to what is happening in Hawaii and the resistance to additional telescopes. Be forward thinking and start planning on better off world telescopes.

[@chocolarda]

Another great video!

[@zacharyhutchison4006]

Is there any way to increase it to 42,069?

[@odysseusrex5908]

The question, with regards to Starship, is, "When's she going to fly!?" We can't go to space until we've done the 20 km hop. I am waiting in eager anticipation.

[@FreeStuffPlease]

I see your name everywhere. Can't wait to see Starships test flight either. Until its back into one piece, I wouldnt get too excited just yet.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@FreeStuffPlease It'll happen. maybe not as soon as we would like, but soon enough.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@FreeStuffPlease Actually, I just saw SpaceXcentric's latest video, and reported that the 20 km hop has been pushed back to December. So, like I said, soon enough.

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

I would love to buy one of the first starlink connections. My boat is for going to the most remote islands of the Bahamas. There is no cell service. What weather info I get is through a sirius satellite weather overlay on my chartplotter (which is good for short range warning of a cold front or squall) and SSB radio receiver is almost useless. Being unaware of developing hurricanes is dangerous. If I can get normal internet, or even the old dial-up bandwidth, I'd be able to see weather satellite views of the entire Atlantic and make use of a lot more weather info than I can at the moment. If its possible, it would be great if they could have a weather channel for different global regions, for example broadcast caribbean weather forecasts in the caribbean, and north atlantic forecasts over the north atlantic. This is a basic need with regard to information. Everyone should have a right to weather forecasts for their region and advance warning of dangerous events coming their way. I'd buy a receiver that does that for sure.

[@sixplus9392]

You think there will be so many collisions of them in space ? You think they would even try doing it if that was a concern? The animations are misleading because the satellites are no way that big. How small do you think the earth is? There is a reason we don't hear about planes colliding in the sky.

[@jjeshop]

They are able to self correct.

[@calebharris4127]

TS FLAME agreed

[@clapcast]

Planes actually collide in the sky a lot, definitely a lot more than the satellites will.

[@asperg8735]

42,000. Holy shit, that's a lot. There's already so many up there. I hope he can manage them all without any trouble because holy shit. That's 42,000 more satellites to worry about.

[@hilaryfernandez1160]

Im still confused in how the satellites are realized into the atmosphere, are they attached or inside of the rocket?

[@hilaryfernandez1160]

Released

[@kornbread5359]

I saw starlink in a dream, but it felt like more like a nightmare at the time.

[@adamlane6218]

How are the people in those areas going to afford such network connectivity?

[@barry99705]

Rural US? Sat internet isn't that expensive, it's just slow as shit, and data capped. 3rd world countries, I'm sure they're going to price it appropriately. The negative press backlash would be horrible for spacex to price it too high.

[@Wombatzone31]

As an amateur astrophotographer I already have issues with satellites. Over a 3hr exposure session (5min exposures x36) I can have at least 5 to 6 frames with satellite trails through them. Planes at night are easy to spot and usually stop flying in Australia by about 9pm to 10pm which gives us a pretty much clear skies. This new network of shiny satellites is very worrying to me as I've invested a lot of money in equipment, plus our bigger observatories will have the same problems as us backyard astronomers. They need to rethink their design at least to make them invisible from the ground....... and there will come a time when our children wont just see stars but also a lot of moving stars. And with space based telescopes.... per hour usage costs is out of reach for many of us backyard astronomers not to mention the 100,000's world wide who would like to use them too.

[@SimplySpace]

Great video as always Marcus. When it comes to Starlink, I trust SpaceX to do it right and minimise the impact on the orbital environment. After all, their business is dependant on having a healthy orbital environment, it wouldn't make sense for them to shoot themselves in the foot with a Kessler syndrome scenario.

[@johntheux9238]

They could still refill starship in very low earth orbit where the debrits deorbit in several days.

[@totalermist]

The recent incident with ESA gives me little hope to assume they'll d anything of the sorts. Over-reliance on automated systems almost killed Tesla - Musk had to drop the ambitious automation plans, because they didn't work - and the incompetence shown in the communication with other agencies points to disaster waiting to happen. For context, the collision probability between the SpaceX and ESA satellite was 1:10,000 - that translates to a distance of about 10m! In aviation at speeds that are a magnitude lower, that's worse than a near-miss scenario.

[@SimplySpace]

@@totalermist The recent incident with ESA was non-existent. The ESA were irresponsibly trying to kick up a stink on social media.

[@totalermist]

@@SimplySpace I beg to differ. The incident showed what happens if one party fails to communicate and SpaceX openly admitted they'd messed up. Why would they do that if ESA were just "trying to kick up a stink"? Also: what exactly is irresponsible about making public the issues with mega constellations and collision avoidance procedures and raising awareness about the lack of regulation and agreed upon procedures? Fanboy much?

[@SimplySpace]

@@totalermist It showed that you can track satellites and perform collision avoidance manoeuvres when required, a routine part of satellite operation. As Matt Desch pointed out, Iridium performs collision avoidance manoeuvres regularly but don't have a compulsion to publicise it like that.

[@holamilambo8228]

How will they maintain these satellites

[@BULLAKI]

2:40 great point, the International Astronomical Union issued a statement on this back in June. Didier Queloz (2019 Nobel Prize winner) in our recent interview said: "Is the society ready to lose the sky? Is the sky something that should be free or is it a new market?".

[@34Media]

AMAZON has also applied for 50,000 satellites as well so may as well say 100000 floating around up there

[@andrashajdu]

I love this guy... Nobel prize for him!

[@Guywithcrazyideas]

Could Starlink help cut the Comcast cable?

[@Alorand]

Starlink, because calling it Skynet would have been too obvious...

[@MrGrilledcheeseits]

This changes everything.

[@AlexWh1]

Give skynet more power !!

[@wesbowles8902]

I think the issue with the quantity of satellites everyone is missing is that SpaceX is just one company. What happens when Blue Origin, Boeing, or any other new companies/countries want to launch their 42,000 satellites to provide a competing service? Where do we draw the line. Something on this scale should be shared by the planet rather than kept private.

[@dennisrichards2540]

7:06 Well im not happy one bit, Starlink clearly doesn't provide coverage to my house in the Antarctic.

[@MarcusHouse]

They will not be arranged as shown. This was just an idea of numbers. There will be separate shells providing full coverage.

[@dennisrichards2540]

@@MarcusHouse just between you and me, I don't really live in Antarctica.

[@alfredohernandez7486]

@@dennisrichards2540 Yeah we could tell you were being sarcastic.

[@big30o6]

You are assuming that all 42,000 are for earth. Perhaps they will be jettisoned on the way to Mars, creating a Earth, Mars link... after all, it’s called Starlink, Not Earthlink. This would provide NASA direct communication with rovers already on Mars... as well for future endeavours. Great video, thanks for your hard work! Cheers!

[@TroySavary]

You know that Earth and Mars are in different speed orbits, right? There will never be a trail of satellites linking them as their relative positions are always changing.

[@big30o6]

@@TroySavary Yes I understand that. The satellites that surround Earth aren't stationary either and Starlink satellites are always changing their position. I'd assume that any satellites, around the Earth, Moon, or Mars as well as any in between would be constantly changing position as well. Please understand that previous comment is based on conjecture and speculation, I have no inside info. I can't fathom what goes on inside Elon's brain, but I enjoy learning and hearing other perspectives. I'm still on the Bonobo spectrum of evolution. I do however know that Earth is NOT flat.... so I'm getting there! Thanks for your comment.

[@TroySavary]

@@big30o6 The satellites around Earth are captive by Earth's gravity. They stay in their relative or hits. Any adjustments they need to make are relatively tiny. The distance between Earth and Mars changes by billions of miles. There is no adjusting satellites to keep a consistent trail between the two planets. Sometimes they are on opposite sides of the Sun.

[@spacenoodles5570]

This seems pretty ambitious, but if it happened it would be amazing

[@panpiper]

"IF?" It IS happening. Elon is using recovered boosters, meaning their construction costs have already been covered by whoever bought the first launch. The launches don't cost anywhere close to what SpaceX charges external customers. Also, the cost estimate for the price of the individual satellites made in this video are probably accurate for the first launch or two, because these are prototypes, which are always more expensive. However Elon has elsewhere stated that part of the financial plan is that these satellites will be for all intents, "mass produced" by SpaceX to bring their costs more in line with what is typical of existing 'blades' in the computer industry. They won't cost millions or even significant fractions of a million. Their cost will be in the tens of thousands each. So, dirt cheap launches combined with unbelievably low per satellite costs, factored into the likely gargantuan revenue stream of the service; not only will this happen, this really will be the cash cow that Elon will be able to milk to fund space colonization. That's the most amazing thing about all of this. Elon has fairly obviously to me anyway, given up on using national government financing and programs to do stuff in space. He is going to fund a Mars colony, and likely a whole lot more than that, all himself personally, with not a dime of government money required. Elon Musk is quite literally, the hero protagonist out of a Heinlein novel. I wish Heinlein were alive to see it.

[@a610412]

What kind of internet speeds are we looking at?

[@Chris-ji4iu]

Not sure if I asked this here before ...I wonder if they can include some aerogel and try to capture a piece or two of other orbital debris before de-orbiting?

[@jatticus6164]

Wall-E predictions are coming true hahaha

[@starlord1346]

Right , after this step too much debris and satellites in space , First we pollute earth and then space

[@TotalGAMIX]

Nahhhh

[@nf5991]

Too predictable.

[@Foxtrottangoabc]

Who makes the satellites anyone know which country ?

[@TraditionalAnglican]

TheRst2001 - SpaceX, & they’re made in the USA.

[@Foxtrottangoabc]

@@TraditionalAnglican thanks 👍

[@whereswa11y]

Love Me some starling.

[@lewismassie]

Imagine this: Your walking back to your house, and the sun went down 10 minutes ago. As the sky darkens, you look up and you see a star move across the sky. As you follow it with your eyes, you notice another one keeping pace just to the west. As it crosses the sky, a third appears a little further behind. These are all starlink satellites passing over you. I think that could be a really cool aesthetic for a futuristic scifi film or something

[@Markle2k]

In their operational orbits, they only get to about Mag 6-ish, so your vision isn't going to come to pass. You could alter it to "looking through your stargazing binoculars you turn your attention to Saturn. Suddenly you notice a dim light crossing your field of view..."

[@ashi-7085]

Or the 42,000 satellites could work like a massive grid of HD projectors!! We may wake up one morning to find the sky is red and we are all living on MARS

[@TruthisinChrist2746]

Lol foolish minds

[@CorpseCallosum]

The orbital sphere is even larger than the surface of the earth. Not a chance these will obscure your view of anything.

[@BRZZ-xw4hd]

great channel and content ...peace out

[@larryteslaspacexboringlawr739]

is there link to drone footage from john?

[@MarcusHouse]

Go to his KZbin channel and Twitter. He does awesome footage.

[@larryteslaspacexboringlawr739]

@@MarcusHouse kzbin.infovideos

[@myfavoritemartian1]

Another way to look at it is, Maybe after actually getting a few satellites into orbit, they found that their predicted coverage was not as good as predicted, so a denser array is called for. OR: The US Army inquiring about satellite service will require an expanded scope of service. (My guess).

[@bostonquad2068]

If you ask me it sounds like 2019 skynet

[@petercrowhurst]

maybe in someone else's hands .

[@petercrowhurst]

@@gabrieldoudna6570 sounds like you dont think there is any other good people in the world that may be inspired by Elon , sad indeed

[@edwardmichaels3388]

listen to musk on the joe rogan show and his take on AI. its very unnerving his relationship with AI. i with you, they’re building skynet and minority report is right behind it.

[@bostonquad2068]

@@edwardmichaels3388 it was a joke if it wasn't for elan we wouldn't have electric cars new rockets the problem I was thinking about is all those solar panels heating up the sun more than it already is just like when you take a mirror to the sun but what happens if you put a mirror facing at the sun

[@bostonquad2068]

@@edwardmichaels3388 and yes I watch The Joe Rogan podcast he don't like AI anyting Elon does I usually watch starship Mark 1 Mark1 Mark 3 that's what's going to take us to Mars 😁😁😁

[@paintwongamez3973]

I'm from Thailand i hope have this service in my country soon

[@nathanielhosea8844]

Yes, in my estimation, I am certain, given that SpaceX has the right concepts and is using good principles to conduct it's industry. I believe as SpaceX attracts talented people into its organization, it will surely grow large enough to realize its purpose and uniqueness to eventually get to the moon, Mars and beyond.

[@briangriffiths114]

Very interesting and informative video, again.

[@demonorb8634]

Seeing the 60 star link satellites coming over was weird but cool. I later got a view from my telescope.

[@flareonspotify]

Demon orb you can see some all ready?

[@demonorb8634]

@@flareonspotify the first 60 launched in may, now in a higher orbit and spaced out.

[@psychosis7325]

Maybe he found it way too easy to get into space and thought "If I done it this easy it means others can, now what can I do to ensure I don't loose my investment to the next start up".........................."42,000 satellites to dodge on first flight, that should do it."

[@alextell7019]

they are miles appart, i imagine planning to avoid them would be much less complicated that planning for weather or space junk

[@hectorkeezy1499]

I would be the first in Line, to sign up with starlink. 🇺🇸👩🏻‍🚀🇩🇰✌🏻😊

[@theundead1600]

So this wont fix the starlink in my Subaru? Joking of course. Great video.

[@Asterra2]

I kind of smirk at how little is being said (for now) about the fact that once this project is well under way, the night sky will be changed utterly. Dots moving across the sky will be effectively non-ignorable, helped by the fact that the giant solar panels on each of the satellites makes them not only almost uniquely prominent for a satellite, but also potentially a source of Iridium-style flashes... obviously on a grand scale. People are gonna throw fits, I expect.

[@strategicthinker8899]

You sound like a real expert, a legend in your own mind. You won't even notice any satellites, just like now, hard to spot and very rare.

[@AlexDubois]

There should be an international program to develop a common mitigation behaviour in case of risk of collision (or cascaded risk) for non military objects. So that everybody watch everybody back in this area. At least on the software and associated underlying hardware.

[@daniel_960_]

The potential is really huge with that. Every single person on earth could access this high speed low latency network anywhere. Ultimately it could entirely replace the fibre optics backbone of the internet and move it from ground to space. And compared to other projects it won’t cost that much. Only infrastructure are satellites, which as far as I know cost 600k or maybe 1m plus launch. Providing internet by digging cables should be more expensive than that. I heard a single 4g cell tower in Germany costs about or up to 200k€. And there are about 50000 now (poor coverage though). The satellites would provide internet to the whole world, not only one country.

[@michaelhowe2]

Number Crunch, 32.33 repeating of course! That's with a goal of over 9,000!

[@ukwerna]

Hi Marcus, thanks for your videos. How does satellite based Internet work? Those modems will not actually be able to send data up to space, or will they? Thanks!

[@gabrielclark1425]

Guy lost in the woods: " Which way is East?" Looks up to the heavens "Thanks Starlink!"