SpaceX broadband service will be 'bumpy' at first, Gwynne Shotwell says

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The president of SpaceX said she expects the company to mature as an internet service provider by 2021.

When SpaceX’s broadband service starts mid-2020, the initial experience will be “bumpy,” company President Gwynne Shotwell said Friday.The company will take pre-sales for customer service, similar to what fellow Elon Musk-led company Tesla Inc. has done for new vehicles, Shotwell said during a media roundtable at the company’s Hawthorne headquarters. And early customers will be part of that learning curve.

Shotwell said subsequent launches will see satellites with experimental coatings to reduce their brightness in the sky, which has been awho fear the satellites could affect telescope images. The satellites are in low-Earth orbit and there could be a lot of them — SpaceX has asked an international regulatory group for permission to eventually operate as many as 30,000 satellites.

 

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