{"id":19261,"date":"2016-09-02T01:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-deeply-disappointed-to-lose-his-satellite-in-spacexs-rocket-explosion\/"},"modified":"2016-09-02T01:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T17:04:48","slug":"facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-deeply-disappointed-to-lose-his-satellite-in-spacexs-rocket-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-deeply-disappointed-to-lose-his-satellite-in-spacexs-rocket-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg \u2018deeply disappointed\u2019 to lose his satellite in SpaceX\u2019s rocket explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89458\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-89458\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/zuckerberg11.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg\" width=\"630\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/zuckerberg11.jpg 737w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/zuckerberg11-200x116.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-89458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg saw the Amos-6 satellite as the first step in Facebook\u2019s plan to provide satellite internet access to underserved regions of the world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today\u2019s loss of a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload was a bummer for Facebook billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg as well as for SpaceX billionaire founder Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019m here in Africa, I\u2019m deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX\u2019s launch failure destroyed our satellite that would have provided connectivity to so many entrepreneurs and everyone else across the continent,\u201d Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post (of course).<\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s scheduled launch of the Amos-6 telecommunications satellite on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket would have marked the first step in Zuckerberg\u2019s vision of providing low-cost internet access via satellite&nbsp;for millions if not billions of people in underserved regions of the world.<\/p>\n<p>That effort is no doubt on the agenda for Zuckerberg\u2019s current visit to Kenya.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fzuck%2Fposts%2F10103074463098101&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook-led Internet.org venture has been working with Eutelsat&nbsp;to provide broadband data services to large parts of sub-Saharan Africa.&nbsp;Eutelsat and Facebook&nbsp;struck a deal last year&nbsp;with Spacecom, the Israeli company in charge of the Amos-6 mission, to&nbsp;make use of the satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Amos-6 and its mission went up in flames today, due to an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The blast occured while SpaceX was preparing for a static fire test.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite\u2019s price tag was reported as $200 million&nbsp;back in 2012, when Spacecom announced it was being built. Such satellites are typically insured against loss.<\/p>\n<p>The loss comes as a significant blow to Internet.org\u2019s aspirations, but not a mortal blow. Facebook has already teamed up with wireless carriers to provide free online&nbsp;services in nearly 50 countries through&nbsp;its \u201cFree Basics\u201d program. And Zuckerberg pointed out that Facebook is also looking at other pathways for low-cost broadband access, such as the high-flying, solar-powered Aquila drones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain committed to our mission of connecting everyone,\u201d he wrote, \u201cand we will keep working until everyone has the opportunities this satellite would have provided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk will keep working as well: Last year, SpaceX set up an office in Redmond, Wash., to develop a global satellite network for internet access&nbsp;\u2013 and by all accounts, the work is proceeding apace. Yet another venture called OneWeb is working on its own broadband satellite network, with backing from Airbus, Virgin Galactic and several other partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg saw the Amos-6 satellite as the first step in Facebook\u2019s plan to provide satellite internet access to underserved regions of the world. Today\u2019s loss of a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload was a bummer for Facebook billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg as well as for SpaceX billionaire founder Elon Musk. \u201cAs I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3611,4762,5515,21,316,368],"class_list":["post-19261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-facebook","tag-internet","tag-internet-org","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-telecommunications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}