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:

Falcon fairing half as seen from our catcher’s mitt in boat form, Mr. Steven. No apparent damage from reentry and splashdown.

Допис, поширений Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 22 Лют 2018 р. о 7:36 PST

The company will try to save more of the fallen details with the help of the ship “Mr. Steven.”

Going to try to catch the giant fairing (nosecone) of Falcon 9 as it falls back from space at about eight times the speed of sound. It has onboard thrusters and a guidance system to bring it through the atmosphere intact, then releases a parafoil and our ship, named Mr. Steven, with basically a giant catcher’s mitt welded on, tries to catch it.

Допис, поширений Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 22 Лют 2018 р. о 6:07 PST

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

See also:

• 4 MOST-Important Cool-Tech Things: Bezos’s $42M Clock, Tesla Lawsuit, SpaceX Starlink Test (LIVE STREAM) and Hyperloop
• SpaceX’s Biggest Rocket: See Falcon Heavy Mysterious Passenger and Other Launch Facts (+ Live Stream)
• Goodbye NASA and SpaceX: Top 3 Low Budget Rocket Missions That Are Our Future!

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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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