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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launching Satellites And Bill Nye Project Into Orbit

Internet Satellites To Deliver High-Speed Internet

US-based satellite company ViaSat is teaming up with Boeing to create and deliver three new satellites that will deliver high-speed internet to remote areas around the world. The partnership was announced yesterday, months before the company is scheduled to launch its previous generation satellite, ViaSat-2, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

SpaceX tourists in orbit as capsule separates from rocket

A SpaceX Dragon carrying four tourists separates from the second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket 12 minutes after liftoff, with the four tourists on board now in orbit The Inspiration4 mission, the first to send an all-civilian crew to orbit, will venture deeper into space than the International Space Station. IMAGES

Elon Musk Made Jab At Facebook,

Susan Walsh/AP; Erin Scott/Reuters There's no love lost between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The billionaire tech CEOs — who helm Tesla and SpaceX, and Facebook, respectively — have been feuding since at least 2016, when a SpaceX rocket explosion destroyed a Facebook satellite. Since then, they've butted heads over everything from artificial intelligence to Facebook's data-collection practices. Most recently, Musk tied Facebook to the violent insurrection in Washington, DC, describing it as a "domino effect." Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

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