SpaceX is plan to launch the first in a huge connection of Internet satellites in 2019 , as it propose to bring entanglement access to the whole world .

At the US Senate in Washington DC yesterday , SpaceX ’s vice president of satellite political science affairs , Patricia Cooper , told acommitteethat one paradigm satellite would establish this year , and another next year , before the first usable artificial satellite in 2019 . The whole internet , consisting of a whopping 4,425 satellites , will then hail online in 2024 .

“ SpaceX plans to bring high-pitched - velocity , dependable , and affordable broadband Robert William Service to consumer in the U.S. and around the world , including sphere underserved or currently unserved by existing networks , ” Cooper said in astatement .

The artificial satellite will orbit Earth in 83 different orbital planes , which will range in elevation from 1,110 to 1,325 kilometers ( 690 to 825 mi ) . For reference , the International Space Station ( ISS ) in low Earth orbit is at 400 kilometers ( 250 miles ) .

The net will then be “ shine ” to the ground , with consumer using a user terminal the size of a laptop – which SpaceX key out as a “ small flat panel ” – to connect to the Internet . In space , the planet will create a meshwork web to supply a continuous service on the earth .

The speed of this Internet will be somewhere between modern cable and fiber optic . SpaceX , however , say the software on the satellites could be upgraded from the ground to better the service over metre and ensure it ’s not redundant after a few old age .

There are quite a few thing we do n’t know yet , however , not least how gravid the satellite will be and what they ’ll count like . And concerns have also been raised about the amount of debris this will add to Earth orbit .

Currently , there are about1,459 satellitesin orbit of Earth . SpaceX is plan to launch triple this , leading some to conjure up thoughts of aKessler syndromeevent . This is a theory that debris in orbit can make a cascading effect if it set about collide , making regions of Earth ’s scope impossible to get at .

There are solutions to this , though . There are a form of novel plans to slay dust from field , including using net ortethers . And satellites must be de - orb after 25 twelvemonth at any rate , although one expertrecently suggestedthis should be reduced to five .

Nonetheless , SpaceX ’s programme are bold . They ’ll involve to be launching hundreds of these satellites every year to have a probability of dumbfound it up and running in 2024 .   That ’s pretty ambitious .