Beaming the internet from space

The project might bring in as much as $50bn in revenue a year as …

• it will remove latency.

• it is cheaper than fiber optic cables.

• it will reduce the information transmission time.

Light reaches its top speed ….

• when it bounces off glass.

• when it travels in a vacuum.

• when it travels through fiber optic cables.

The satellites which are positioned in very distant orbits …

• send data with higher latency time than the Starlink satellites do.

• operate at the altitude of 550 kilometers.

• have to move faster than the Starlink satellites to stay in orbit.

The potential problems with the Starlink satellites may include …

• interference with ground based optical and radio observations.

• not being efficient enough to provide global coverage.

• costing too much to be launched.

Starlink is a project typical of Elon Musk because …

• it gains a lot of attention.

• other companies want to do the same thing.

• it might bring in a lot of money and there are people who oppose this idea.

the amount or extent to which something is covered

• CONVERGENCE

• COVERAGE

• CONVECTION

the delay before a transfer of data begins following an instruction for its transfer

• LATENCY

• LATENESS

• OVERTIME

the use of long fibers of glass or plastic to carry information from one place to another as light signals are fiber ...

• OPTICS

• OPTICIANS

• MIRRORS

to send out electrical signals using a radio, television, or computer network

• PIPE

• SPREAD

• TRANSMIT

 a space that has had all the air and any other gases removed from it

• VAC

• VACANCY

• VACUUM