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    SPACEX’S STARLINK CATCH ASTRONOMERS OFF GUARD

    Feb 27, 2020 2 minutes

    SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced the Starlink concept back in January 2015, explaining the company intended to launch about 4,000 broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit to provide low-cost internet to people around the world.

    The envisioned numbers have grown since then. SpaceX now has permission from the US Federal Communications Commission to loft about 12,000 Starlink craft, and the company has applied to an international radio-frequency

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