Facebook's Internet connectivity initiative suffers setback due to SpaceX explosion
 

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.

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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...

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