SpaceX plans to launch first internet-providing satellites in 2019

SpaceX has its sights set on Mars, but that doesn’t mean it has forgotten about Earth. Elon Musk’s company yesterday outlined its plan to put a network of internet-providing satellites around our planet, stating in a Senate hearing on broadband infrastructure that it wanted to start sending the craft into space in 2019, before the full network came online in 2024.
SpaceX’s vice president of satellite government affairs, Patricia Cooper, said that the company was aiming to get a