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Elon Musk Confirms Satellite Plan for Global Internet Access

By CircleID Reporter
  • January 19, 2015, 5:29 pm PST
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Elon Musk has announced plans for a space project to provide faster, cheaper Internet access around the globe. The $15 billion plan would use hundreds of satellites placed 750 miles above the Earth, far lower than existing communications satellites. Doing so would speed up the transfer of data and give better coverage to three billion people who do not have it. The speed would be similar to that of fibre optic cables on land even given the distance the data has to travel between the satellites and Earth.

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