Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband
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- The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shuttled into low Earth orbit for an ambitious…
- The effort was backed by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, leveraging a Biden-era law meant to address America's digital divide.
- But before the satellites even reached the launch site , Jeff Bezos' rocket exploded into a massive fireball, its wreckage left smoldering on the ground.
- It was an unintentionally pe … Read the full story at The Verge.
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At 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shuttled into low Earth orbit for an ambitious satellite internet venture. The effort was backed by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, leveraging a Biden-era law meant to address America's digital divide.
But before the satellites even reached the launch site, Jeff Bezos' rocket exploded into a massive fireball, its wreckage left smoldering on the ground. It was an unintentionally pe …
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