Elon Musk sends tweet via SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband
by Jon Brodkin from Ars Technica - All content on (#4T12B)
Enlarge / Starlink logo imposed on stylized image of the Earth. (credit: Starlink)
SpaceX's Starlink division is on track to offer satellite-broadband service in the United States in mid-2020, a company official said today. Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted two tweets that show he's testing the broadband service.
"Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite," Musk wrote. Two minutes later, Musk sent a followup tweet that said, "Whoa, it worked!!"
Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2019
Musk "has a Starlink terminal at his house," SpaceNews wrote today in an article that has a deployment update from SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell.
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