For many years the number of satellites orbiting Earth rose at a light rate, but development has soared not long ago. By July 2019 additional than two,200 satellites had been aloft. In the 1980s and 1990s the motion was in geosynchronous orbit (blues), claims Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Middle for Astrophysics|Harvard & Smithsonian. But now the motion is in the lowest Earth orbits (yellows), he claims, and ever more dominated by young companies alternatively than govt, army or educational proprietors. Currently the force is from Starlink—constellations of satellites weighing 260 kilograms, currently being released by SpaceX to supply significant-pace Internet.