Elon Musk Plans To Launch 4,000 Satellites To Give Free Wi-Fi Worldwide
It has been only a few days since he proposed that he could warm up Mars by nuking it. And now, it's another daring project proposed by the eccentric billionaire and founder of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk: a plan to launch 4,000 satellites into orbit so that he could bring fast Wi-Fi internet access to the farthest areas of the world.
Musk can revolutionise the world with his innovative projects, according to hngn.
His company, SpaceX, submitted the initial framework in January, even as the official request was submitted to the Federal Communications Commission a week ago. If there is no problem in initiating the plan, global free satellite internet system can be operational within five years, according to The Independent.
Even as the worldwide satellite internet model is mooted by many companies, including tech giants Google and Samsung, Musk's SpaceX gets an edge as it has the existing hardware to pull off the project.
Hence, SpaceX will use its own Falcon 9 two-stage rockets to launch the satellites. For the past three years, the Falcon 9 two-stage rockets have successfully delivered spacecraft into orbit, reports Computing UK.
The cost of the project, though, may be limiting, as the satellites will get launched into low orbit. Hence, about 4,000 satellites need to go into space so that the earth can be completely covered.
