SpaceX’s Starlink
Broadband Satellite Internet to Your Home — Soon — Maybe!
1. Elon Musk’s vision…
Elon Musk is one of the most divisive, disruptive, creative, and successful entrepreneurs of the 21st century — and will gift the future with either a step change in technology, or with endless cautionary tales and missed opportunities.
One potential step change is if everyone on Earth had access to broadband internet, and the rising tides of education, business and public service such access would bring. Musk started Starlink in 2015 with that step change as a goal.
What is Starlink, and how did it come about?
Musk tells the story that when he was in college he thought about what technologies he was interested in that might most affect the future of humanity. His list included renewable energy, the internet, and space colonization (or making humans a multi-planetary species).
Musk’s first forays into the internet became what is now Paypal with a current market value (as of August, 2020) of $240B. Elon’s efforts in renewable energy has become Tesla with a market value of about $440B. And…
