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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The Internet company prefers by: The closing bell at the New York’s Wall Street is just faded just as confirmed space provider SpaceX the circulating speculation. Google is investing about one billion dollars.
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The search giant and online marketing company Google itself up as a major shareholder of the private spaceflight company SpaceX: The US group participated in a one billion dollar financing round, as SpaceX announced after US market close. The second new financial contributor to the financial investor Fidelity. SpaceX confirmed that appropriate rumors that had emerged earlier this week in the art.
The two financial heavyweights Fidelity and Google keep reportedly future together almost ten percent of the SpaceX shares. This SpaceX should actually come to a total enterprise value of about ten billion dollars. Participation in SpaceX can Google make readily. The company has accumulated enormous cash reserves in recent years. Analysts estimated the reserves last to a sum just below the 100-billion mark.
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The information currently available, according to Google, especially in building a global network connectivity from the its all interested. The plan was, it is said, with the knowledge of SpaceX, a system of hundreds build satellites. This would Google even remote regions with Internet connections provide and so offer his services in structurally weak regions of the world away from the industrialized nations.
More aboutGoogle is industry insiders According to bring currently in a race against Facebook about billions of new users in developing countries to the Internet. SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who is also behind the electric car pioneer Tesla had made public a few days ago the plans for the satellite system for supplying Internet services.
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The building could cost around ten billion dollars and take five years according to media reports. Technical details initially remained largely unclear. SpaceX developed previously rockets and space shuttle taking over supply flights to the International Space Station ISS among others, the US space agency NASA.
That is spaceflights not without risk, NASA had finally learn again until last November, when a unmanned Antares rocket fell back and exploded shortly after takeoff.
Source: n-tv.de
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