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09-01-2016, 10:00 PM
Facebook's Internet connectivity initiative suffers setback due to SpaceX explosion
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Facebook's effort to bring internet access to sub-Saharan Africa suffered a serious setback Thursday morning when a SpaceX rocket exploded during a test.*
The explosion simultaneously affected the plans of *two of the most famous names in tech — Elon Musk, who owns SpaceX, and Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
SEE ALSO: SpaceX rocket explodes on pad ahead of test (http://mashable.com/2016/09/01/spacex-pad-explosion-florida/)
The rocket and the satellite were both lost due to "an a**maly," SpaceX confirmed, though the root cause of the explosion is **t yet k**wn.*
Facebook had leased capacity on the Amos-6 communications satellite that was aboard the Falcon 9 rocket as it performed a static test fire on a Cape Canaveral launchpad.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/01/facebook-spacex-rocket-explosion/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Mark Zuckerberg (http://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Elon Musk (http://mashable.com/category/elon-musk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Africa (http://mashable.com/category/africa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook Internet (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-internet/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Spacex (http://mashable.com/category/spacex/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/KEq4A1Dzq3s
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Facebook's effort to bring internet access to sub-Saharan Africa suffered a serious setback Thursday morning when a SpaceX rocket exploded during a test.*
The explosion simultaneously affected the plans of *two of the most famous names in tech — Elon Musk, who owns SpaceX, and Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
SEE ALSO: SpaceX rocket explodes on pad ahead of test (http://mashable.com/2016/09/01/spacex-pad-explosion-florida/)
The rocket and the satellite were both lost due to "an a**maly," SpaceX confirmed, though the root cause of the explosion is **t yet k**wn.*
Facebook had leased capacity on the Amos-6 communications satellite that was aboard the Falcon 9 rocket as it performed a static test fire on a Cape Canaveral launchpad.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/01/facebook-spacex-rocket-explosion/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Mark Zuckerberg (http://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Elon Musk (http://mashable.com/category/elon-musk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Africa (http://mashable.com/category/africa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook Internet (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-internet/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Spacex (http://mashable.com/category/spacex/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/KEq4A1Dzq3s