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Didn't SpaceX blow up the rocket carrying Facebook's Internet.org satellites (which more or less were doing exactly this)? https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/a-

• teraflop 10y ago
  "Doing exactly this" is kind of a misrepresentation. SpaceX is launching a fleet of low-earth-orbit satellites. The rocket that blew up was carrying a single satellite, owned/built by an Israeli company and destined for geostationary orbit; Facebook had signed an agreement to lease part of that satellite's capacity for several years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos-6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos-6
  • ricardobeat 10y ago
    This is odd. I'm pretty sure I read this exact pair of comments in the other thread earlier today... is HN moving things around with a fresh time stamp? EDIT: whew, I'm not going crazy yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973474