It may seem a long shot, but when SpaceX successfully landed a spent first stage rocket on a barge overnight, it had implications for Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) project.
What SpaceX brought much closer to real life is a huge reduction in the launch costs of satellites, including the constellation of 4000 low-orbit, low-latency satellites that could carry a cheap, global, transborder internet service.
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