Listen: SpaceX Satellite Plan Gets Backing
After the success of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, that launched on Feb. 6th, the program has been approved on a plan for a network of internet satellites. The Federal Communications Commission has endorsed the use of the SpaceX program to create a network of satellites that will bring internet access to areas of the country that are in need of service. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said, “Satellite technology can help reach Americans who live in rural or hard-to-serve places where fiber optic cables and cell towers do not reach. [This will] be the first approval given to an American-based company to provide broadband services using a new generation of low-Earth orbit satellite technologies.” With plans for launch already under way, the future of internet technology has already begun to take off.
