SPACEX: Starlink and Iphones. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:59.9 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Behind the black, Bob Zimmerman is here. We're going |
| 1:05.4 | into Lower Earth orbit with SpaceX. Bob, SpaceX makes us so routine. It's like reporting that a train left from |
| 1:12.9 | Grand Central Station. What have they done? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, you know, |
| 1:17.5 | I keep track of every launch that goes on yearly. And SpaceX right now is getting a pace that's |
| 1:25.0 | almost one launch every other day in 2025. |
| 1:29.2 | In fact, they've launched already twice as much as China, |
| 1:33.1 | and their launches exceed everybody else once again, total. |
| 1:37.6 | But they did a launch earlier this week that I think is a little significant |
| 1:41.6 | because they've been regularly launching Starlink satellites, |
| 1:46.1 | including a percentage that are designed to have direct-to-cell phone capabilities. |
| 1:54.7 | In other words, those satellites, it's a sub-constulation within the Starlink constellation |
| 1:59.8 | that is designed to act as cell towers in orbit for smartphones. |
| 2:06.6 | And what that does is that if there are no cell towers around, the satellites will step in and act as your cell phones will be no dead spots. |
| 2:16.6 | And they have signed a deal with T-Mobile. |
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