SpaceX launches demo satellites for its high-speed internet project

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Elon Musk's goal of delivering high-speed internet to the world just got a little closer to reality.

SpaceX on Thursday launched a rocket carrying two experimental satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellites will test out the technology the company plans to use for its internet service, according to public filings.
The company kept the test satellites largely under wraps and chose to focus on the primary payload for Thursday's launch -- a defense and security satellite for the Spanish government called PAZ.
But Musk confirmed in a tweet the small internet satellites, which hitched a ride along with PAZ, made it into orbit. He said the satellites, nicknamed "Tintin A" and "Tintin B," will attempt to beam the words "hello world" when they pass over Los Angeles Friday morning.
SpaceX's internet ambitions have the support of Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai. On February 14, Pai urged the FCC to approve SpaceX's broader proposal to deliver "broadband services directly to [people] anywhere in the United States or around the world" at speeds similar to the quickest ground-based internet connections.
SpaceX eventually wants to put more than 10,000 tiny satellites into Low-Earth Orbit. The satellites will whisk around the planet about 335 km (208 miles) to 1,325 km (823 miles) above the Earth's surface.
Billions of people around the globe still lack internet access, so companies have been racing to find a better way to beam internet down from the sky.

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