SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk on the Kennedy House Heart
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Elon Musk on Tuesday mentioned SpaceX’s satellite tv for pc web community Starlink “not too long ago” handed close to 70,000 lively customers and expects fast-paced progress within the yr forward.
“We’re on our strategy to having a number of hundred 1000’s customers, probably over 500,000 customers inside 12 months,” Musk mentioned, talking nearly on the Cellular World Congress commerce present in Barcelona, Spain.
Starlink is the corporate’s capital-intensive undertaking to construct an interconnected web community with 1000’s of satellites, identified within the area business as a constellation, designed to ship high-speed web to customers wherever on the planet. SpaceX first rolled out the service with a beta program for choose customers for $99 a month, and previously yr has sought regulatory approval to check the community inflight and broaden the service to massive shifting autos, like ships and vehicles.
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