Billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is getting closer with every launch to providing internet to the world-- including remote communities-- by using a fleet of thousands of satellites.

BUT he’s not alone, Amazon, Samsung and other private companies plan to follow his lead.

And that means low-Earth orbit is about to get even more crowded.

In the latest episode of Space Curious, we’ll look at what massive constellations of satellites will mean for our view of the night sky, the research of astronomers who study it and what companies like SpaceX are doing to help mitigate these issues.

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