马斯克又放大招！这次要建全球wifi_BEC初级作文

马斯克又放大招！这次要建全球wifi

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, launched a radar satellite atop one of its go-to rockets last Thursday morning.

上周四上午，埃隆·马斯克创建的火箭公司SpaceX（美国太空探索技术公司）通过其一艘运载火箭发射了一颗雷达卫星。

The satellite, called Paz, will keep an eye on ship traffic across the oceans of the world.

该卫星被称为帕斯，它将看管全球海上的船舶交通。

But another payload hitched a ride aboard the Falcon 9 rocket, one the company didn't publicize: two smaller satellites that are part of Musk's plan to bathe Earth in high-speed internet coverage.

不过，“猎鹰9号”火箭还顺便搭载了另外两颗小型卫星。该公司并没有公布这项发射任务，但这却是马斯克覆盖全球的高速互联网计划的一部分。

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The scale of the proposal, informally known as Starlink, is incredible. In the coming years, the company hopes to launch 4,425 interlinked broadband-internet satellites into orbit some 700 to 800 miles above Earth, plus another 7,500 spacecraft into lower orbits.

这一提案被通称为星链（Starlink），其规模十分惊人。在未来的几年里，该公司希望在地球上空700到800英里的轨道上发射4425颗互连的宽带网络卫星，并在较低的轨道上发射另外7500个航天器。

That's nearly 12,000 satellites, more than twice the number of all satellites launched in history, according to a tally by the Union of Concerned Scientists.