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This weekend, the next launch...

SpaceX is launching its broadband satellites into orbit this weekend

Following the success of its Falcon Heavy launch, SpaceX is gearing up for its next mission: sending satellites into orbit so they can beam down internet access to earth.

The company isn’t making a lot of noise about it just now, but from this letter it sent to the Federal Communications Commission last week, and a license that the agency granted the Elon Musk-fronted firm last November, it’s clear that the Falcon 9 rocket that will take off on Saturday will carry two Starlink satellites alongside Mexico’s Paz mission payload.


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Now, get this!


"The company’s vice president of satellite government affairs, Patricia Cooper, said that SpaceX plans to launch 4,425 satellites in 83 orbital planes to provide connectivity" Read full:
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4,425 additional satellites is a lot!


Pretty amazing. And smart. satellite connectivity will, or should be, awesome. Anywhere, connected. What is brilliant, is this will all be in place by 2019! And this will all help fund their missions to Mars. Which I think will be sooner then we all realise.

Pretty amazing. Even if that Tesla in space is odd-ball.