Elon Musk unveils 60 internet satellites ready for launch to boost coverage on earth

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The satellites will beam internet coverage to under-served parts of the world but Musk admits 'much will likely go wrong'.

His company is one of several, including Amazon, which are building so-called"constellations" of interconnected satellites to deliver high-speed internet from space.

A previous demonstration of prototypes called Tintin A and B was carried out in February 2018, with coverage good enough to play fast response video games, according to Mr Musk.Elon Musk hopes to beam internet coverage from space to under-served areas of the world "These are production design, unlike our earlier TinTin demo sats," Musk said, adding that it's a"tight fit" to get all 60 on top of a single SpaceX rocket.

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Iromg Where do they find space to put them all.

to do what

So Facebook & Google can track our every move.

Iromg Elon Musk is single handedly saving humanity. He’s got enough brain power and money to take on any government. Don’t be surprised if they try and lock him up.

its just PR because undeserved regions are poor, can't afford it.

Better hope his defamation lawsuit goes well or he’ll be using these to block everyone’s signals 😂

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