StarLink to launch 42,000 Internet Satellite

STARLINK

• A Satellite constellation development project by US company SpaceX.
• the goal is to develop low-cost, high-performance satellite bus and requisite customer ground transceivers to implement a new space-based Internet communication system.

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GOALS

• Till now SpaceX has developed 62 satellites as of May 2019 and plans to deploy 60 more per launch, at a rate of one launch every two weeks beginning November 2019.
• total 12,000 satellites will be launched initially, the later the number will be increased up to 42,000 satellites. 
• The total cost of Starlink will be around 60 billion dollars.

THREAT OF SPACE DEBRIS

• Several nations have already launched almost 9,000 satellites over the past six decades.
• of these, about 5000 are still orbiting.
• Starlink project will be almost doubling the number of satellites.

• There are no binding rules currently in place for how long a satellite can safely linger in orbit.
• The United Nations recommends that satellites be deorbited no more than 25 years after the end of their missions, but these guidelines lack strict penalties for noncompliance.