SpaceX changing the price of space exploration and telecommunication

 while the woke are attempting to destroy STEM, and the trust in the medical system has fallen due to it's it's willingness to push propaganda, and pushing inaccurate information while censoring those who wanted to discuss problems, it is nice to see some science is still working.

Falcon 9 launches the @ESA Euclid mission on a trajectory toward the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2 - nearly one million miles away from Earth! pic.twitter.com/Y3QRi7QbOo

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 1, 2023

So the European Space Agency has had SpaceX launch it's satellite to examine the puzzle of dark matter and dark energy..

.Euclid will observe billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years to create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe, with the third dimension representing time itself. This detailed chart of the shape, position and movement of galaxies will reveal how matter is distributed across immense distances and how the expansion of the Universe has evolved over cosmic history, enabling astronomers to infer the properties of dark energy and dark matter.

 

This is about theoretical science, but not all space projects are an esoteric exploration of God's universe: 

in mid June, SpaceX launched a telecommunications satellite for Indonesia. LINK

this satellite will be in a stable orbit and allow internet communication in rural areas of that country. This seems to be similar to the internet satellite (and TV satellite) systems we used years ago when we lived in isolated area on Indian reservations.  

The satellite will occupy the orbital slot above Indonesia's eastern Papua region. It has a throughput capacity of 150 gigabytes per second and will provide internet access to 50,000 public service points, the Indonesian government said.The project is a public-private partnership between the government and Indonesian satellite service provider PT Satelit Nusantara Tiga.

StrategyPage has a short essay about this satellite launch and about how SPACEX, with it's reusable rockets, has lowered the price of launching satellites......

The less expensive SpaceX SLV launches have made it possible to put a lot more of these communications satellites in orbit over areas with little or no affordable communications services, including broadcast video as well as Internet service.

One big difference since we moved here is the availability of telecommunications: everyone has smart phones (using cellphone towers) and  all the kids are able to use the internet.

We are still on wired intenet by PLDT, but Huawei is putting up 5G towers all over the place (Kuya turned them down when they wanted to put them on our rice land) but Joy has a Huawei internet connection for her business.  So far, China  don't have a monopoly but you can see the problem if half our internet coverage is being run by China who could hack it or shut it down in case of war or just to pressure us not to complain about their stealing our resources in the West Philippine Sea. 

Back in 2006, the internet cables that go by Taiwan got cut by an earthquake . So if China decides to cut internet cables to isolate Taiwan (something they have already started to do.) this could isolate the Philippines. It could be just one more way to pressure the Philippines not to let the US/Japan/Australia/Korea use the Philippines in their fight to stop Chinese  aggression in East Asia.

(and not just internet: some local solons worry they could hack and shut down our electric grid too.).

the newer internet Starlink is going to be available in the Philippines in the near future also. Which is nice in case the infrastructure starts blowing up (from war, sabotage, earthquakes, volcanos, or typhoons)