Satellites owned by Elon Musk’s Starlink orbit the earth and beam an internet connection to almost anywhere. In 2019, the company sent its first 60 or so satellites into orbit — today, it has some 4,500 circling the planet, with around 1.5 million customers across about 50 countries and territories.
Adam Satariano, a technology correspondent for The Times, details the company’s rise and power, and discusses the implications of one man’s controlling it all.
Guest: Adam Satariano (https://www.nytimes.com/by/adam-satariano), a technology correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Elon Musk has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology. The ways he is wielding that influence are raising global alarms (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/28/business/starlink.html).
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New? We've had satellite internet since 2008
With SpaceX continuing to launch satellites, and Amazon and the Chinese government talking about creating their own versions, at what point does near-Earth orbit become too congested to permit space travel?
Musk's real fear is the rise of Trans-scarcity, massive amounts of raw material acquired from space in the not far, but certainly not soon, future. He wants to keep us poor in comparison to us. He wants to cut us off.
jealous much XD
Of course NY Times take on this is negative toward Elon. Starlink would not even exist but for Elon. Embarrassing tone.
I think your constant negative opinion of EM doesn't do him justice to hiw much he has changed our world. Despots and authoritarian goverments fear starlink because of the ability to get global information. Add X to the equation and you have the most powerful combination of global access (starlink) and marketplace (X) i think this is a great thing for global peace.
Paypal mafia. Really? Me thinks there is an agenda here.
A public good is something that government provides and not the private sector?
This woman clearly has a bias.
I don't think Iran matters, but China does as Tesla manufactures EVs there and China is a big consumer market for Tesla EV sales.
Mercurial perhaps, but trolley? Whatever that means. This woman is clearly a woke progressive loonie liberal, who quite ironically as a woman no doubt believes the nonsense that a trans-woman, meaning a biological man, is a woman.
Lady you are attempting to smear and trash one of the most important and significant figures in human history to date, whose commercial endeavours are going a long way to save the planet now and also to advance civilisation into Space, the Final Frontier. In face of that, tell me what you've done with your life to the benefit of humankind?
The host, Sabrina Tavernise, clearly has an anti Musk agenda. Perhaps because she is a Russian agent, or at the very least a Russian useful idiot. She has spent a suspiciously large amount of time in Russia and in and around the Russian military in various parts of the world. She even studied Russian at university. Having said that I've just seen photos of her and I find her strangely attractive and repugnant at the same time and in equal measure. I wonder what her sexual orientation is. I'd take a guess at same sex.
This thread is full of Elon fanboys. He's not new or innovative. Manboy Elon is profligate liar. He's PT Barnum
More like make human life multiplanetary, Mars Bars 🍺🍸🍹🥃🍷🥂 ya know💳🪪🔋🔋🚀🪃🎯📡🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛳️🔁 Starlink exist to fund BFR
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Wow, a factual programme about Starlink? Usually the NYT bends the truth about Musk-related topics to whatever agenda is on the table at the time.