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 Mark Zuckerberg.
The rocket and the satellite were both lost due to "an anomaly," SpaceX confirmed, though the root cause of the explosion is not yet known.
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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