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Musk, SpaceX chief and the world's richest person, said in a
tweet that it will be "something special". (https://bit.ly/3T9alcV)
SpaceX's satellite communications division Starlink is launching
a mega-constellation of satellites to low Earth orbit with the
aim of providing internet connectivity to underserved regions of
the world.
SpaceX has steadily launched some 2,700 Starlink satellites to
low-Earth orbit since 2019 and has amassed hundreds of thousands
of subscribers.
Competition in the low-Earth orbiting satellite internet sector
is fierce between SpaceX, satellite operator OneWeb, and Jeff
Bezos's Kuiper project, a unit of e-commerce giant Amazon.com
Inc.
(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh
Kuber)
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