People Still Don’t Have High-speed Internet and a S.F. Company Builds Satellites to Make that Possible

It turns out that a San Francisco warehouse can be used to store a brick of titanium, which is what you need to beam high-speed internet from remote Alaskan corners.

Astranis, a large complex that once produced Liberty Ships from World War II, is currently building satellites. It plans to launch them to orbit over 22,000 miles above the Earth’s Surface. The first one will be launched to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket out of Cape Canaveral next spring.

Although each of these robot sentinels costs in the tens of millions of dollars to create, John Gedmark (Astranis CEO and Aerospace Engineer) believes the cost is worth it to address one of the most fundamental human problems: high-speed internet connectivity.

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