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Elon Musk is a visionary. With “Starlink”, he wants to offer cheap and fast Internet anywhere in the world.
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Dozens of them flew through Switzerland on Saturday evening, as reader reporters report.
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The spectacle is likely to repeat itself a few more times in the next few years.
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On Saturday evening, strange objects could be seen in the sky in Switzerland. Several readers reported a chain of lights that was seen in German-speaking Switzerland and in western Switzerland. “Chained like a string of pearls, at least 30 lights,” wrote one reader. “What are these objects and where are they flying to?” Asked another.
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VIEW white: They are satellites. And they belong to Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO has had 60 satellites racing over our heads since January. With the “Starlink” project, the multi-billionaire wants to provide the earth with fast and cheap Internet. Especially in areas that so far have no cable connections – which applies to large parts of Africa or ships on the high seas. To achieve this, the satellites fly in a significantly lower orbit than ordinary satellites, which reduces transmission times.
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12,000 satellites into space
The first 60 satellites were launched in May last year, the ones seen on Saturday in Switzerland are the third charge. The spectacle is likely to repeat itself a few more times. In total, Musk wants to distribute at least 12,000 satellites over the earth.
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Musk hopes that Starlink will be globally operational by 2030 at the latest. However, he has often appreciated far too positively when it came to his own projects.
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Starlink is by no means a humanitarian project. Receiving devices are needed to receive the signals from space. According to current estimates, these should cost around $ 200. In many places in Africa this corresponds to an annual wage.
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