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The text is a transcript of a video about StarLink, a project by SpaceX to provide global broadband internet using a constellation of satellites. The video explains how the satellites will use lasers and radio waves to communicate with each other and the ground, and how they will have lower latency and higher speed than traditional internet providers. The video also discusses the potential benefits of StarLink for financial markets, education, and space exploration. The video ends with a promotion of Brilliant, an online learning platform, and some social media links.
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1. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 60 satellites into space on May 24th, 2019 as part of their Starlink project.
2. Starlink aims to provide high-quality broadband internet to the most isolated parts of the planet and low latency connectivity to already well-connected cities.
3. Starlink satellites use Krypton ion thrusters, control momentum gyroscopes, and the US government space debris collision prediction system to avoid debris and deorbit at the end of their life cycle.
4. Starlink satellites use five lasers to transmit information between satellites using light pulses, which travel faster in space than in glass fiber optic cables.
5. Starlink has the potential to lower the latency and increase the speed of data transmission over long distances, especially for financial markets and time-sensitive applications.
6. Starlink plans to launch 12,000 satellites over the next decade and generate 30 billion to 50 billion in revenue each year.
7. Starlink users will connect to the internet using a flat antenna that costs around $200 each and can fit on the roof of a car or other vehicles.
8. Starlink's revenue will help fund SpaceX's research and development of new rockets and technologies for lunar and Martian colonies.