Elon Musk: “Starlink, there's several thousand satellites in low earth…”

“Yeah, so he was telling me about how in densely populated areas, Starlink works differently than it might be in a place with not as many people. Can you explain how it works? Yeah. So Starlink, there's several thousand satellites in low earth orbit and they're moving around 25 times the speed of sound. in these. They're zipping around the earth basically. And they're at an altitude of about 550 km, which is called generally low earth orbit. Because they're at low earth orbit.” (23:55–24:03)

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