According to the richest man in the world Tens of billions of spacecraft can orbit the Earth without interfering with each other.
The space is too big and the satellites are too small
Musk told the newspaper.
musk Joseph AschbacherHe responded to the words of the President of the European Space Agency, who said that he is currently present The owner of SpaceX creates space rules.
The SpaceX Starlink project has so far launched 2,000 satellites into space and plans to launch tens of thousands more around the Earth.
Aschbacher warned about it
Launching thousands of communications satellites would leave radio frequencies and less space around the Earth for anyone else.
Musk has argued that there are room for tens of billions of satellites, that there are roughly two billion cars and trucks in the world, and that any concentric orbit around the Earth is larger than the Earth’s surface, so there are many satellites in total. ..
However, experts say Musk is not right, because Spacecraft traveling at 27,000 kilometers per hour need much longer distances than cars to have time to adjust their orbits. According to the astrophysicist, there will be space for about a thousand satellites in a concentric circle to avoid collisions with safety.
China recently complained about Musk’s Starlink project: They said the Chinese space station had to take collision precautions several times before to avoid collisions with the Musk satellites.
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