While in Paris, Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, shows reporters a rather unusual vacation photo.
A small rectangular antenna less than 50cm high connected to a white case the size of a paperback, all set on a meadow in front of a circle of megaliths, in Drombeg in the south of Ireland.
"Even in the most remote places on the island, thanks to Starlink, I had access to the internet up to 350 megabits per second"
, assures the one whom Elon Musk has trusted completely to manage his space activities for twenty years now. year.
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Thanks to a constellation of nearly 2,300 satellites in orbit
550 km above our heads, SpaceX has achieved the technological feat of offering very high-speed internet, at speeds close to fiber, potentially at the whole earth.
"We do not have the capacity to connect all the inhabitants of the planet with our satellites, but we are very complementary...
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