Monday, October 26, 2020

SpaceX To Provide Internet To Texas School District

Hawthorne, California-based rocket launch, spacecraft, and satellite developer SpaceX, in one of the first large scale deployments of its Starlink satellite constellation, will provide Internet access to Ector County, Texas. According to the Ector County Independent School District (ECISD), it will become the first school district to utilize the SpaceX satellite to expand Internet capacity in Ector County. The project will initially provdie free Internet service to 45 families in the school district, starting in early 2021. Ector County Independent School District said the service is being provided because there are few, if any, options for Internet service for those students. The district said that it found that--due to the COVID-19 pandemic--that 39 percento f its families have limited to no Internet access

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