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Skip Montreux, Dez Morgan & Samantha Vega | Business English Instructors
Crowded Skies: The Commercial Satellite Boom
19 minutes Posted May 23, 2025 at 1:42 pm.
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You’ve seen them streak across the sky — tiny points of light that are not stars. Satellites are now so numerous, they are changing the night sky and creating new challenges. 
In this episode of Down to Business English, Skip Montreux and Samantha Vega look at the booming business of commercial satellites. From SpaceX’s Starlink to Amazon’s Project Kuiper, they examine how private companies are transforming space into the next frontier of global internet infrastructure. 
D2B 374 looks at both the positives and negatives of putting more satellites into space — they help bring internet to more people, but they also cause problems for science, space safety, and the environment.
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