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SpaceX Seattle 2015

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What it is

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 Hacker News recommends 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.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “He pretty much goes over the entire game plan in this video”

    Musk goes over the entire satellite internet game plan

    matznerd, 2015-04 · Recommendation · in “Elon Musk wants to bring the Internet in space”

  2. “Here is a video where elon explains the system very well in 2015.”

    Musk explains the satellite internet system in 2015

    andrewtbham, 2016-11 · Recommendation · in “SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: spacex, starlink, elon musk, latency, mars

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