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Africa to the grid. With a swarm of small satellite Internet companies like Google want open from space the continent. The simple reason: there waiting for hundreds of millions of potential new customers who want to be with smartphone apps, online shopping, financial services, and not least supplied with advertising. With the latter, the major Internet companies make money for their best-free for the customer services.
Elon Musk is a specialist when it comes to knowing what others are interested in. Just collect the founder of Internet payment service Paypal and Tesla electric car brand with its space companies SpaceX money for a satellite project that helps all continents with fast internet could be supplied.
Ten billion dollars (8.6 billion euros) will reportedly get together for this project SpaceX. Only one tenth of this is to provide Google. The reported next to the “Wall Street Journal” and the US blog The Information. Both rely on unnamed sources from negotiating circles. Google and SpaceX initially did not comment.
billion people have no access to the Internet
Not likely would not be such an investment; because some regions of the world are still blanks for Internet companies. In developed countries and regions, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and others reach their target audience, consumers, almost without any problems. The infrastructure in the US, Europe, parts of South America and Asia is good. People have access to the Internet – phone line at home more often on the move, smartphones are widely used.
No doubt these markets are important. However, Google is indeed in Europe, the number one search engine – nine out of ten web requests in the Old World to run on the server of the group from the California Mountain View. But in the domestic US market, the situation is less clear. Competitors like Yahoo or Microsoft Bing services play a much greater role there. Facebook is around 1.3 billion users while the world’s largest social network. But on earth currently live more than seven billion people. Sufficient potential to grow for many years can – if the conditions are met.
Flying objects play a major role
For many years already, the companies therefore seek people in deprived areas to access the Internet to enable or facilitate. Flying objects play a major role. In one of the more well-known projects with the name Loon Google is experimenting with balloons in the stratosphere to help offset the lack of terrestrial network about antennas. “In another project – called O3B Networks – Google is also entered with a billion dollars,” explains Ralf Digital expert Kaumanns.
Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg would like to join developing countries via satellite or antennas on drones to the worldwide network. The Internet.org program, the company worked together with telecom companies to increase access of the poor. “The efforts of Facebook, the Internet on simple mobile phones – the so-called feature phones – to bring, are naturally less spectacular,” says Kaumanns. But they were already very effective in contrast to all satellite projects.
Musk wants people through tubes and into space carrying
Elon Musk had already confirmed in November via his Twitter account that SpaceX is working on a satellite solution. An official announcement will follow in two to three months, he wrote. Unlike conventional satellites that orbit the earth at 35,000 km altitude, the micro-satellite from the house Musk to make their way in only about 1,200 kilometers. As with fiber-optic technology is about data transfer speed of light. However, in the vacuum of space light was still around 40 percent faster than in terrestrial fiber optic cables, Musk explains the advantages of his project.
The 43-year-old is one of the most colorful entrepreneurs in the United States. With its head in many areas it exceeds the limits of what appears entrepreneurial lucrative. SpaceX exists, for example, since 2002. Back then transported the NASA space shuttle astronauts and cargo into space. Meanwhile, SpaceX takes at least cargo flights to the International Space Station for the US space agency. In the foreseeable future Musk wants to convey but also individuals into orbit.
On Earth, his Tesla electric cars are already good. The mostly well-off buyers appreciate the vehicles partly due to its high range of several hundred kilometers. A newer visions of Musks is a kind of pneumatic tube for humans. With a speed of 1,200 miles per hour, he will send passengers in capsules through a pipe system.
Google has shopped in space
The fact that he has also suffered setbacks over again in its projects, the visionary can seem cold. So SpaceX recently failed in an attempt to land a rocket after the start again without prejudice to the earth. Although raised from the supply mission to the ISS, but the rocket Falcon 9 could not make it, as provided for set up on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. “A miss is gone,” said Musk.
For Google SpaceX would not be the first investment into space. Last year, the company bought Skybox. Their satellites will make for Californians video footage in high definition from the earth – from Africa
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