SpaceX will make a massive network of 1000s of low earth orbit satellites to provide high-bandwidth, low-cost internet connection to every m2 of Earth. Gwynne Shotwell: We actually don’t chat very much about this particular project, not because we’re hiding anything, but this is probably one of the most challenging if not the most challenging project we’ve undertaken. No one has been successful deploying a huge constellation for internet broadband, or basically for satellite internet, and I don’t think physics is the difficulty here. I think we can come up with the right technology solution, but we need to make a business out of it, and it’ll cost the company about $10B or more to deploy this system. And so we’re marching steadily along but we’re certainly not claiming victory yet.

A roadmap:

Starlink 1.0 4K satellites 2021
Starlink 2.0 7K satellites 2023
Starlink 3.0 30K satellites 2027

and a look at the competition:

SpaceX Starlink satellites, Amazon new Kuiper and OneWeb are competing for the low latency low-earth satellite market. This market will be worth 10s of billions of $ per year.

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