Watch First Two SpaceX Starlink Satellites Deployed
First two Starlink demo satellites, called Tintin A & B, deployed and communicating to Earth stations pic.twitter.com/TfI53wHEtz
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2018
These test satellites were secondary payloads on the Falcon 9 launch of the Paz satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California this morning. Elon Musk’s company plans to provide global broadband services through two satellite constellations composed of 12,000 satellites.
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I think TinTin was that large space creature that Star Trek did a Cesarean on. Or was it the one where someone left to live on?
Surely there’s a more obvious namesake here?
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You are thinking of Tin Man, a biological AI based starship that lost its crew and was getting ready to commit sucide from being alone before Star Fleet found it. But I don’t see how it applies.
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