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Elon Musk spills details on SpaceX's $10 billion space internet venture
Elon Musk doesn't only plan to bring the whole world online using a fleet of low-cost communication satellites, he also wants to use the same infrastructure to provide internet on Mars. Months after confirming the new SpaceX project, Musk has finally told Bloomberg, that he plans to send hundreds of satellites to orbit the planet 750 miles above the ground. That's much farther than the ISS, which maintains an altitude of around 268 miles, but closer than the farthest medium-earth orbit communication satellites at 22,300 miles. Their closer proximity to users means speedier internet as signals have lesser distance to travel, so the system could (potentially, anyway) rival optic fiber.
