The topic could not be more topical. Elon Musk (CEO of TESLA) has launched various small research projects in which small satellites are to be transported into orbit around the earth. In this way, people all over the world are to have access to the Internet. Many critics complain that these small satellites could interfere with recordings from the sky and signals. Another criticism is the promotion of space debris. A similar project was carried out almost 60 years ago. It is the West Ford project.
Four hundred million needles now orbit the globe in a polar orbit at an altitude of just under 4000 kilometers. These "needles" are part of Project West Ford, which began in 1958 and were conducted by a scientist named Walter Morrow. Morrow and his team planned to place a belt of copper wires above the Earth to provide a fail-safe, fail-safe and fail-safe communications system. The following video clarifies why these copper wires were launched into space.
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