Entrepreneur, Tesla director and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk denied the words of the head of the European Space Agency (ESA) Josef Ashbacher about the dominance of Starlink satellites in space. This became known on Wednesday, December 29.
“The cosmos is just incredibly huge, and the satellites are very small … A couple of thousand satellites are nothing. It’s like a couple of thousand cars on Earth – that’s nothing, ”Musk said in an interview with the Financial Times.
According to him, there is room for “tens of billions” of satellites in near-earth orbit.
In early December, Ashbakher urged European countries not to give preference to Starlink satellites in order to prevent Musk’s dominance in space.
On June 30, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched into orbit from the Cape Canaveral launch site in the US state of Florida with 88 satellites on board. 85 commercial and government small spacecraft and three Starlink satellites were launched into orbit to replenish the global Internet coverage system created by SpaceX.
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