• SpaceX’s Transporter-3 mission has lifted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Falcon 9 reusable rocket

  • The Spanish company Fossa Systems has provided 6 picosatellites that will facilitate access to the Internet

  • The space company reached $100 billion in valuation after a share sale in October

Elon Musk ‘s company SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket to put 105 small satellites into orbit that will revolve around the Earth to facilitate connection to the Internet .

The reusable rocket carried small commercial and government satellites into space, as part of the SmallSat Rideshare Program that provides Internet access from space. Among them, six devices manufactured by the Spanish company Fossa Systems , which wants to have them operational by mid-2023.

Its objective is to offer global IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity in areas without mobile coverage for low-power devices . It is the first Spanish company and one of the first ten in the world to begin the deployment of a constellation of this type of small-sized satellites, called to revolutionize IoT connectivity for the industry due to its high efficiency and low cost in areas of little or no mobile coverage around the planet.

Designed and integrated in Madrid, they will be located between 450 and 550 kilometers high . They have all the necessary systems to feed, communicate at high speeds or maneuver in orbit with plasma thrusters and reaction wheels.

The Transporter-3 mission lifted off at 10:25 a.m. at Cape Canaveral from Space Launch Complex 40.

SpaceX , which counts Alphabet Inc and Fidelity Investments among its investors, hit $100 billion in valuation after a stock sale in October , CNBC reported.

The company competes with former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ‘ space venture Blue Origin and billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic , both of which have jumped into the space tourism race .

In parallel, SpaceX has already launched numerous payloads and astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.

 

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