16 Mar 2021

Space the final frontier: James Parr on space news

From First Up, 5:27 am on 16 March 2021

Elon Musk's latest SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off yesterday carrying 60 more starlink satellites into orbit. Starlink is the network of small communication satellites that have been making that light trail across the sky at night. There are going to be thousands of them, but why? Nathan Rarere was joined from the other side of this planet by our space mate, Founder of the Open Space Agency James Parr.