SpaceX has said Starlink, a network of thousands of satellites, will become "the world's most advanced broadband internet system". A crowded sky Elon Musk's SpaceX is one of several companies that intend to launch constellations of small satellites. But what happens to our night sky? "Starlink will provide fast, reliable internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable," the company's website read. "Starlink is targeting service in the northern US and Canada in 2020, rapidly expanding to near global coverage of the populated world by 2021." A few days after the approval on January 24, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites, its fourth successful launch for the program, from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Matt Botwin, SpaceX's director of global satellite government affairs, wrote to ACMA during the submissions process in November last year, saying approval was an important step forward in SpaceX's plan to offer "high-speed" satellite-based broadband to all Australians. "Inclusion … [on] the FSOD will allow the company to begin the process of seeking regulatory approval to operate in Australia, including obtaining the required space apparatus licence," he wrote. SpaceX was one of three companies, along with Canadian company Kepler Communications and the US Swarm Technologies, to be approved to kickstart the process "to eventually obtain space apparatus licences to operate in Australia". They are the 18th, 19th and 20th inclusions on the list. Posted