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Starlink on Mars? NASA Is Paying SpaceX to Look Into the Idea

ven the go-ahead for SpaceX to work out a plan to adapt its Starlink broadband internet satellites for use in a Martian communication network. The idea is one of a dozen proposals that have won NASA funding for concept studies that could end up supporting the space agency's strategy for bringing samples from Mars back to Earth for lab analysis.

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