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Science alert by MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN, BUSINESS INSIDER 9/5/2020

SpaceX says early tests of its rapidly growing fleet of internet-providing satellites are yielding promising results.

Internal tests of a beta version of internet service from the company's Starlink project show "super low latency and download speeds greater than 100" megabits per second, Kate Tice, a SpaceX senior certification engineer, said during a live broadcast of a Starlink launch on Thursday.

"That means our latency is low enough to play the fastest online video games, and our download speeds are fast enough to stream multiple HD movies at once and still have bandwidth to spare," Tice added.

The Starlink initiative hopes to eventually send tens of thousands of broadband satellites into orbit, blanketing Earth in affordable high-speed internet. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said that he hopes Starlink will get rural and remote regions online. Already, the company has launched more than 700 satellites.

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