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Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet
• TechCrunchSpaceX CEO Elon Musk used an internet connection provided by his company's Starlink constellation of broadband satellites early on Tuesday AM. Musk used the network in place with the Starlink satellites already in orbit to send a simple tweet, declaring that he'd done just that.
Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite ????
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2019
Starlink is SpaceX's ambitious project to launch and operate its own network of broadband satellites, which will then provide broadband connectivity on a global level, including to areas which did not previously have reliable access to a high-speed internet connection.