Satellites To Provide Cheap Uncensored Internet To The World Ready For Launch
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company is currently developing a micro-satellite network that hopes to bring cheap and uncensored internet access to the world, and that they will begin testing the satellites in the next 6 months. Back in January, the company received a $1 billion donation from Google and Fidelity.
The initial program’s main objective “is to validate the design of a broadband antenna communications platform … that will lead to the final LEO [low-Earth orbit] constellation design,” SpaceX said in its FCC filings.
We reported last year, that Musk said that the company is in the early stages of development on the project. Responding to a comment about the cost of the service, Musk said that the internet service would be “unfettered certainly and at very low cost.”