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Elon Musk鈥檚 global satellite ambition

The richest man on Earth has a satellite empire but what does he have planned for space?

Elon Musk is the world's richest person. He leads Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX and he owns half the satellites in Earth鈥檚 lower orbit; with over 5,000 already operating in space. They make up a global internet constellation called Starlink, which is set to grow rapidly in the coming years.

We explore how big his ambitions for space are with our science correspondent Jonathan Amos and our North America technology reporter James Clayton.

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Today鈥檚 episode of The Global Story was made by Alice Aylett Roberts, Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty and Richard Moran. The technical producers were Gareth Jones and Mark Regaard. The assistant editor is Sergi Forcada Freixas and the senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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