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Mission Starlink
01 December, 2020: By Ajoy Maitra

In the recent era of superior advancements to technology, internet access has become necessarily paramount, globally. Still there remains regions of no-internet access which moderates development of the economy. Several projects are been undertaken by the Governments to capitalize digitalization process with implementation of cheap internet availability in every regions.

STARLINK is a project by SpaceX ventured by the Founder, CEO, CTO and Chief Designer of SpaceX, Elon Musk, to confer high speed internet access all over the world by 2021. SpaceX has recently announced that it would continue the beta testing for the broadband service in 2021, as a delay for commercial use. As during a livestream, before launching the 16th Starlink project, a SpaceX engineer Kate Tice had stated,


At our current pace, we expect to expand our beta in a notable way very early next year, in the late January - February timeframe...

With another successful launch of Falcon 9, at the latest on November 24, SpaceX has launched 60 more satellites adding to a cluster of total 1000 satellites in the Earth's orbit. However, it further aims to launch 12000 satellites to a lower orbit which would offer ranging, to provide high speed broadband service for commercial use. Elon Musk further stated in a tweet,


Once these satellites reach their target position, we will be able to roll out a fairly wide public beta in the northern US and hopefully southern Canada. Other countries to follow as soon as we receive regulatory approval.

SpaceX's Starlink is a revolutionary mission in changing the whole base for technological advancements as such would open doors to unveil potential of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to a next level. In an FCC filing made by the company on November 6, it wrote,


SpaceX seeks experimental authority for operation of one user terminal aboard each of up to five private jets while they are (1) on the ground at an airport, and (2) in flight over the United States (including its territories and territorial waters),

Starlink's satellites has an advanced system of getting the useless satellites burned up in the Earth's atmosphere within 1 - 5 years, which as per the website is considered to be much less compared to hundreds and thousands of years required normally at such higher altitudes.

However, such do pose a threat in the space as the debris forming a Kessler syndrome, may revolve around creating a "massive impact on the launch side" As noted by an astrodynamicist at Analytical Graphics Inc., Dan Oltrogge,


We are seeing recently a decided uptick in the number of conjunctions. And it looks to be very well aligned with the new large-constellation spacecraft that have been launched.

Though there remains higher chances of creating such space debris which could collide with each other or other satellites, such an initiative by SpaceX is a finely nurtured ambition to take over a small percentage of the trillion dollar telecommunication industry. With this being successful, the company could have a net worth of around $30 to $50 Billion a year.