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Starlink was originally a google idea, originally a sister project to Loon, the founder quit and brought his team to SpaceX and then got fired by Elon. Everyone
by andromeduck 3y ago
Starlink was originally a google idea, originally a sister project to Loon, the founder quit and brought his team to SpaceX and then got fired by Elon. Everyone who repeats this story to me says it was because "Elon doesn't suffer fools" but YMMV.
- wilg 3y agoWho was that? Can't find anything about it.
- akreal 3y agoMaybe this: "top designer Mark Krebs, who worked in Google's satellite and aircraft division" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-insight-idINKCN1N50FC/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-insight-i...
- andromeduck 3y agoI think that might be it - it was called "Project Air" circa 2011-2015.
- jpm_sd 3y agoGlobal Bit didn't originate at Google X, it was an acqui-hire of O3B which later spun back out to become OneWeb. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat_OneWeb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat_OneWeb There was definitely some weird cross pollination with SpaceX happening.
- ex3ndr 3y agoIIRC first version was very overengineered and team was replaced that built a simpler one.
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