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Can New Space Race Connect World to Internet?

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - It's a 21st century space race: Amazon, SpaceX and others
   are competing to get into orbit and provide internet to the Earth's
   most remote places.

   And like the last century's battle for space supremacy that was
   triggered by the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1, this one involves
   satellites. Thousands of them.

   More than a dozen companies have asked U.S. regulators for permission
   to operate constellations of satellites that provide internet service.
   Not all are aimed at connecting consumers, but some have grand and
   global ambitions.

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