The satellites will beam internet coverage to under-served parts of the world but Musk admits 'much will likely go wrong'.
His company is one of several, including Amazon, which are building so-called"constellations" of interconnected satellites to deliver high-speed internet from space.
A previous demonstration of prototypes called Tintin A and B was carried out in February 2018, with coverage good enough to play fast response video games, according to Mr Musk.Elon Musk hopes to beam internet coverage from space to under-served areas of the world "These are production design, unlike our earlier TinTin demo sats," Musk said, adding that it's a"tight fit" to get all 60 on top of a single SpaceX rocket.
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