SpaceX will launch its first 60 satellites to deliver internet from space
CNNNew York CNN Business — SpaceX wants to beam cheap broadband internet all over the planet. Elon Musk’s rocket company will try to deliver a batch of 60 satellites into low-Earth orbit, the first for a megaconstellation of satellites that SpaceX is calling Starlink. And SpaceX said in a Thursday tweet that it would wait another week so the company can “update satellite software and triple-check everything again.” CNN Films' 'Apollo 11' Explore the exhilaration of humanity’s first moon landing through newly discovered and restored archival footage. The upcoming mission is a small part of what SpaceX ultimately wants to be a much grander project: a group of potentially thousands of satellites swirling over Earth that the company says could eventually make available low-cost internet for a significant portion of the world’s population that isn’t yet online. A successful launch this month would “surely put SpaceX in the lead,” said Shagun Sachdeva, an analyst at Northern Sky Research.