Space Exploration Technologies has signed a $492 million deal to carry Iridium Communications’ mobile telecommunications satellites into space starting in 2015. Iridium provides mobile voice and data services around the globe. The companies did not say how many satellites would be launched aboard SpaceX’s new Falcon 9 rocket. The total cost of launching the next-generation satellites is $2.9 billion, Iridium says. SpaceX is a private company founded in 2002 by PayPal co-founder and PayPal’s PayPal founder Elon Musk.”]
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