SpaceX to deploy its super-fast internet satelites by 2019

Nicholas Fearn
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SpaceX has unveiled plans to send thousands of internet satellites to space.

Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX has unveuled plans to deploy 4,425 super-fast internet satellites in space by 2019, according to CNBC. Earlier this month, the firm filed a Federal Communications...

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