How to Build a $100 Million Satellite | Wendover Productions
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How to Build a $100 Million Satellite | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202617 min

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This video was made possible by Brilliant. Learn intuitively with Brilliant for 20% off by being one of the first 200 to sign up at brilliant.org slash Wendover. If you look up, there are 4,708 satellites that came from Earth currently orbiting our planet. Just in the portion of the sky you can see, hundreds of satellites are passing overhead at any given time. You often can't see them,

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but they're there making GPS work, taking images of Earth, providing communications, even spying for governments. These satellites are some of the most expensive single objects that can be made. If you took a tennis ball sized chunk of the Hubble Space Telescope, it would be worth over $1500. Modern full-scale, commercial-grade satellites cost in the hundreds

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of millions of dollars. They're just incredibly complex objects that require years to construct. Many of the satellites flying over you right now, though, started their life here, at SSL in Palo Alto, California. SSL is a commercial company owned by Maxar Technology specializing in satellite and spacecraft construction. They've built spacecraft that are currently in orbit for

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