SpaceX Aims Launch Satellite for Internet from Space

Safyan Nov 19th, 2016 Comments Off

SpaceX is the private rocket firm and it has applied for the permission from the government to launch the satellites to provide global broadband internet access. The company has filed the application to the US Federal Communications Commission and it has provided the details for the planning of 4425 strong satellite network. This company aims to deploy the satellite based internet services over next few years.

The company said in the statement that when they fully deployed the SpaceX system, they will pass over the virtually all parts of the surface of the Earth and they have the ability to provide wonderful global service. It is further added that the satellites orbit the planet at the altitude from 714 to 823 miles and it is over International Space Station but it is below than the geostationary satellites.

The company has given the technical glimpse of the proposal and there are about 4425 satellites are operating in 83 orbital planes at the height ranging from 689 miles above the earth. SapceX has some prototype satellites, which they will launch next year and the actual constellation will not see the light till the turn of the decade. It is the only group, which is looking to make place in this market.

The connectivity pushes the global economy and with the internet things, it created the feelings that the mega networks will be proved profitable for the people, who move quick enough to get launched their constellations.

Elon Musk is the founder of the company, SpaceX and he made the announcement that the service would be larger than anything, on which the discussion has been carried out and it would take $10 bn but it did not include the costs. It is proposed that 800 satellites would be used to provide the internet access across US, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands. Each satellite has the size of a car and it has the weight of 850 pounds. The company faced an incident of destruction of communication satellite and the company has held the launching of the satellite since September and the company hopes that it will resume the flights next month.