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"You Russians will only use people to go to Mars, not build rockets yourself", this sentence can be said to have given Musk a resounding slap in the face, but Musk not only did not get angry because of this sentence, but wanted to work harder, and he could build rockets himself.
It wasn't until lunchtime one day that a flash of inspiration struck him and he decided to start his own rocket company.
This road made Hawking even more obsessed with Musk's "wind tunnel", and also shocked the entire space industry, and also aroused the spirit of exploration of the Chinese people.
And now Musk has once again brought you a shocking news, the Starlink project.
As soon as this news came out, it swept the world like a dynamite, so what is this Starlink?
Musk's Starlink program.
As an out-and-out technology controller, Musk's "paradise" in his world is space, but a tragedy makes his "Iron Man" dream difficult to realize.
In order to break this shackle, he decided to do a new job and devote himself to space exploration, and the first step was to break the monopoly of NASA.
Because Musk's talent and skills are very powerful, he just graduated from high school, he was able to make some gadgets when he was idle and bored at home, but these gadgets are the keys to the universe in human dreams.
After buying NASA's legacy business for the first time, and selling it for $650 million for the second time, he finally started his own path of space exploration.
This company is SpaceX, and then Musk invested more than 10 million dollars, and SpaceX has developed rapidly since then, and after his first generation rocket Falcon 1 was made, it became the first spacecraft in the United States to send spacecraft and satellite probes into space.
Later, Falcon 2 and Falcon 3 also appeared one after another, and SpaceX's valuation also rose rapidly, because of the success of SpaceX, which also put the huge "plate" of the space industry on the bright side, so that we could see more hope.
However, Musk did not let go of this dream, and it is this spirit of "exploring the unknown" and "continuous efforts" that has led to today's achievements, he wants to build a global satellite network for mankind.
Then the satellite network is a kind of data transmission in a broad sense, through the satellite communication system, communication and data services, so as to achieve direct communication between people, between people and things, to solve the problem of long communication transmission distance on the earth, reconstruction and repair of damaged communication system and other problems.
Anyone can use the terminal device in Starlink to surf the Internet, make video calls, entertain, work, etc.
Why does Musk have such an idea?
In fact, it all goes back to a "humiliating congress" in the former Soviet Union.
Musk founded SpaceX, a space exploration technology company, in 2001, and what happened in that year also became an important decision for Musk to start the company.
That is, at that time, Musk had not yet taken his first steps on the road to space, and he was about to work on rockets when he met several Russians in the restaurant.
When they learned about Musk's thoughts, they said disdainfully: "You Americans don't know how to build rockets at all, you will only use our Russian methods, you can only go to Mars, but you can't build rockets yourself."
"It's ridiculous, we had a company that wanted to talk to the United States about cooperation before, but none of them dared to cooperate with us in Russia, you Americans want to build their own rockets, you are too funny."
These words not only did not hit Musk, but inspired his fighting spirit, and it was these words that made him determined to establish his own space company, go his own way, and lead the United States out of a new path of space exploration.
Discussion of the STARL project.
As the first project to realize the "inclusiveness" of space, the Starlink project itself not only aims to realize the global Internet, but also plays a role in exploring space resources and ensuring the development of mankind itself.
At the same time, Musk has always maintained his original dream, and perhaps Musk's Starlink project can also help him realize this space dream.
Musk first mentioned the Starlink project in public in early 2018, when he had been experimenting with the Falcon 9, a large component of the vehicle.
After the space shuttle was lifted off on January 7, 2018, Musk talked about another major event in his recent life.
It is a project he will do, he calls this project Starlink, the original intention of the Starlink project is to build a high-speed bandwidth satellite communication network, this network is not to break the monopoly of the earth communication market, but to cover the corner of the earth without signal, so that people all over the world can access the Internet.
If Starlink is finally realized, then humans will be able to receive Internet signals from any corner of the world, whether it is in the ocean, in a remote valley, on the South Pole, or even in the event of a war, people can know the situation anytime and anywhere, so as to ensure their own safety.
Each satellite of Starlink is very small, but only human beings will have about 40,000 satellites, and they will form a chain of thousands of satellites, spread over the Earth's orbit, connecting with each other, providing the world with Internet signals without dead ends.
In addition, the latest technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are also based on high communication rates, and if this new technology can be commercialized, it will undoubtedly be a period of technological innovation.
Then in terms of warfare, Starlink will undoubtedly play a major role, whether it is to provide communications on the battlefield, or in terms of command, or in terms of control.
Starlink can bring about a very big change, and it may also replace the existing terrestrial communication equipment, after all, the communication that relies on ground equipment is extremely fragile in wartime, but both the United States and other countries will deny the usefulness of Starlink's militarization.
In addition, there are some people who are concerned about the interference of Starlink on ground-based observation devices, and this concern is undoubtedly well-founded.
People use some terrestrial stations to send radio waves into the sky, which are sent into space and must be picked up by Starlink's satellites.
Once Starlink satellites interfere with the radio waves on the ground, they may interfere with people's communications, which will greatly damage people's production and life.
Many experts and scholars also believe that if Starlink does not care about the interference of Earth observation, it may change the current status quo, and perhaps further endanger our human communication.
Because the pulses used in scientific research observations and intelligent communication tools are all launched into the air, and Starlink satellites happen to be flying in the air, there will be signal interference between them, so that the information received by scientific researchers and ordinary people on the ground is inaccurate.
So, for that matter, this kind of Starlink project is also a tortuous path to commercialization.
However, if Starlink can be successfully commercialized, then it will become a representative work of the new era.
As a completely privately invested project, Starlink is different from the star exploration projects invested by major countries, which was established in 2015 and is planned to be fully deployed in 2020, which shows the speed of its progress.
China's response.
Although Musk's Starlink project is a private enterprise for space development, his ambitions are imminent.
Therefore, China has to respond to this, and the relevant person in charge of the China National Space Administration also said that the mainland plans to have a satellite-ground integrated satellite Internet project and a space Internet plan.
At present, it has certain implementation conditions and foundations, and will continue to optimize and upgrade on the basis of meeting the needs of domestic information applications in an all-round way, so as to provide better services for users at home and abroad.
The relevant person in charge of the China National Space Administration said that the mainland's satellite-ground integrated satellite Internet project is huge, and it is planned to gradually promote the construction of the project from 2020, and it is expected that the satellite Internet network will be fully completed by 2030.
And gradually realize the integration of satellite and ground, world-class satellite Internet services, to provide Internet services to the world without dead ends.
Moreover, China is not just doing this space Internet, the mainland also plans to build a manned cargo spacecraft through a large manned spacecraft, and build a manned space station for China.
In terms of lunar exploration projects, projects such as lunar polar region exploration missions and sample return exploration will also be realized.
In a practical sense, the continent's path of space exploration is also a vast world.
epilogue
The militarization of the Starlink project is a very worrying thing, both the United States and other countries have a certain degree of militarization capabilities, and the only means to restrain this military behavior is to maintain international peace and promote international cooperation.
Especially in terms of new science and technology, it promotes the global sharing of development results, so the military issue of Starlink is not only a matter for the United States itself, but a common concern for the international community.
Once a large number of satellites of Starlink collide or fall in space, it will cause a devastating blow to the earth, so it is urgent to establish an international consensus in the field of space and formulate corresponding norms and regulations.