Musk Shared His Plans on Starlink Satellites “Tintin A & B” and Explained Where Did Name Come From (PHOTOS)
Yesterday, we became one step closer to a high-speed Internet connection as SpaceX successfully launched two test satellites “Tintin A & B”.
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Starlink Launch
Yesterday, SpaceX sent two satellites, Tintin A & B, to space to the spread the Internet around the planet. The companies Google and Fidelity have already interested in the project and attracted the investment of $2 billion.
Elon Musk plans to send 12,000 satellites into orbit to cover our entire planet with the stable high-quality Internet.
See the recorded live broadcast of the launch on YouTube:
Two Starlink test satellites
Elon Musk posted a video of the two test satellites deploying into orbit. He called the satellites Tintin A & B, probably after the main character of “The Adventures of Tintin” written by Georges Remi:
First two Starlink demo satellites, called Tintin A & B, deployed and communicating to Earth stations pic.twitter.com/TfI53wHEtz
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2018
If anyone is curious, the name was inspired by The Fault in Our Stars
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 21, 2018
In the coming years, SpaceX is to launch 4,425 Starlink satellites into orbit and 7,500 spacecrafts near it.
Musk made a classic Muskian joke about the Wi-Fi password:
Don’t tell anyone, but the wifi password is “martians”
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2018
Rocket’s nose fell into the ocean
After launching Falcon, SpaceX tried to catch a rocket’s nose cone as it fell down in the Pacific Ocean.
The attempt wasn’t successful, one of the pieces of the nose landed on the water surface, but left undamaged:
The company will try to save more of the fallen details with the help of the ship “Mr. Steven.”
Here is the list of Starlink test stations:
- SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
- Tesla Motors headquarters in Fremont, California.
- SpaceX test center in McGregor, Texas.
- SpaceX in Brownsville, Texas.
- SpaceX in Redmond, Washington.
- SpaceX in Brewster, Washington.
- Three mobile “test vans.”
- So, we are waiting for more test to be conducted in the near future.
Photos
Source: Patrick Fallon/Reuters
Source: SpaceX
Source: SpaceX
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