THE VIDEO SHELF · satellite internet constellations
SpaceX Seattle 2015
Full recording of Elon Musk's January 2015 presentation and Q&A at the SpaceX Seattle office announcement. He lays out plans for a satellite constellation to provide low-latency global internet, tied to funding Mars ambitions. Pauses between questions have been edited out.
Why HN readers recommended it
It is the primary source for the original Starlink concept, so commenters cite it for Musk's stated goals on latency, hops, pricing and timelines.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Cliff O
- Topic
- satellite internet constellations
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Elon covered all of this and more during the launch of the SpaceX Seattle offices. He pretty much goes over the entire game plan in this video -> [VIDEO]
matznerd on Hacker News · 2015-04
In Elon Musk wants to bring the Internet in spaceno one saw it coming? they anounced this in 2015. Here is a video where elon explains the system very well in 2015. [VIDEO]
andrewtbham on Hacker News · 2016-11
In SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed
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