SpaceX Applies To Test Internet Service Satellites

lpress writes: Elon Musk's SpaceX and Greg Wyler's OneWeb both hope to provide global Internet access using constellations of low-Earth orbit satellites. Neither company plans to be in operation for several years, but Musk's SpaceX is ready to test two satellites. They have applied for permission to launch two satellites that will orbit at 625 km. Time reports: "The application describes two satellites, the first of up to eight trial satellites that are each expected to last up to 12 months. The satellites will likely be built using the $1 billion that SpaceX raised mostly from Google earlier this year. For these first tests, the launch location will likely be Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast rather than Cape Canaveral in Florida, according to the orbital parameters in the application."

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The new Fascist American Empire

[Anonymous Coward]

My fellow country men. We are on the brink of a new Fascist empire. One that embraces hard work and order and not the backwards Thug cultures.

For us to move forward we will need to embark on a new order.

Thugs shall be put to work under internment in Detroit while the weak shall be liquidated into reusable energy to turn the wheels of Fascism. The city streets shall be immaculate with the blood of the weak.

I call for the destruction of the Thug underclass and anew America.

Wolf Bearclaw Hitler II