You might be hearing about future plans to colonize Mars or establish a base on the moon, but these ideas are older than humankind's first forays out of the atmosphere. In fact there have been several serious and semi-serious space colonization plans that obviously haven't panned out because there are no space colonies.

Building out fiber optic network over thousands of miles to provide internet to millions of people is a difficult, time-consuming, and expensive task. What if you could cut out the physical connections entirely and only use wireless? That is exactly what Starlink aims to do.