Tesla founder will launch 700 satellites for the Internet distribution

The American billionaire, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk decided to engage in a project to provide land residents with a satellite Internet, for which it is planned to launch about 700 telecommunication satellites into the planet’s orbit. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper writes that one Mask satellite will weigh 113 kilograms, which is half as much than the lightest telecommunications satellite from the currently running into orbit. Due to the mass and the use of new technologies, it will also become the cheapest, with a total estimated cost of $ 1 million per unit. Mask plans to build a plant for the production of telecommunication satellites in the United States to implement its project.

It is planned that the satellites will be delivered to orbit to the Falcon 9 missiles of another company Mask - SpaceX.

The partner of the project, which is estimated at $ 1 billion, should be Greg Uyler, who has extensive experience in the satellite industry and which owns the right to a fairly wide range of frequencies, should be the ex-top manager of Google.

Mask is not the only one who was concerned about the project in this area. Plans for ensuring the most remote corners of the Earth are also nurtured by the Google and Facebook Internet giants,