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Elon Musk Shares First Images Of New SpaceX Satellites

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The first pieces of a radical plan to bathe Earth with high-speed internet access just launched into space. SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, piggybacked two experimental spacecraft onto a rocket that deployed a Spanish radar satellite into orbit. Officially known as Microsat-2a and Microsat-2b, the spacecraft will test technologies that would enable the creation of a pervasive broadband network with connection speeds roughly 180 times the global average. If the project is successful, people around the world would get internet that's about 40 times faster than current satellite internet providers, even in incredibly remote and rural areas. SpaceX and Musk released the first-ever public images and video of the satellites shortly after their launch on Thursday.

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