I'm John Dutcher with Eric Berger, a second space age.

That's the idea.

But Mars is the vision that Elon Musk has.

In order to get there, however, the book is reentry, SpaceX-Evon Musk, and the reusable rockets.

Reusable is fine, but you've got to make money.

And there are visions of constellations of

satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide cell tower for everyone or the ability to connect

with the internet, no matter where you are on the planet Earth. Eric and I are conducting this conversation

on Starlink. I've had it on my roof for about a year. It works perfectly. It works better than

the landlines I have into this building as well. I got it as a backup, but now I use it as primary.

There are thousands of satellites swimming above me. You can get an app on your

iPhone and watch those satellites swim overhead. This is all Elon Musk's vision, because up to this

point, as I understand it, Eric, you're the reporter. There had only been big communication satellites

at geosynchronous orbit. To go to low Earth orbit, you've got to put up

thousands because they disappear so fast overhead. Did anybody believe him when he proposed this?

Yeah, he was not the first person to propose the idea of a constellation in low Earth orbit,

where a satellite basically spends five minutes from horizon to horizon and then has to pass

its signal off to the next satellite.

But it was always viewed as pretty impractical because no one had ever built satellites

at a high rate.

Like if you're a company, you built one or two satellites a year, you didn't

build hundreds or even thousands.

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