Heck yes! Finally living in the future Corina Marinescu: Elon Musks SpaceX Gets $1 Billion from Google and Fidelity The cash infusion could help SpaceX — which to date has made its name with rockets and a spaceship called Dragon — get its bold new satellite program off the ground. Musk announced that SpaceX plans to build and launch 4,000 satellites to low-Earth orbit, in a bid to provide cheap Internet access to people around the world. SpaceX builds Dragon and its Falcon 9 rockets in the Los Angeles area, but the satellite project will be based near Seattle. While low-cost Internet access is a significant end in itself, the ever-ambitious Musk also said he wants the satellite program to lead to something bigger. This is intended to generate a significant amount of revenue and to help fund a city on Mars, Musk said during a speech in Seattle announcing the satellite project. Looking at the long term, whats needed to create a city on Mars? Well, one things for sure: a lot of money. So we need things that will generate a lot of money. Source: space/28316-spacex-elon-musk-google-fidelity-investment.html #spaceX #dragon #satelliteinternet #mars #spaceexploration
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:30:10 +0000
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