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A communications satellite for Facebook billed to be launched on Saturday has been destroyed on the launch pad.
The satellite was destroyed when the rocket which carried the
satellite as its payload, exploded on its launch pad the BBC reports.
Experts said the Amos-6 satellite was valued at more than $200m (£150m).
The rocket, operated by the aerospace company, SpaceX exploded on the
launch pad at Cape Canaveral where it was being test-fired ahead of a
launch.
BBC reports that the force shook a lot of building miles away,
however, according to a statement by the company, nobody had been
injured in the blast.
The company blamed the blast on “an anomaly”.
Facebook, in partnership with Eutelsat Communications, had been due
to use the Israeli-built Amos-6 satellite to deliver broadband internet
coverage for swathes of sub-Saharan Africa as part of its Internet.org
initiative.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, while still on official tour to
Africa, expressed “deep disappointment” on the destruction of the
satellite.
“We remain committed to our mission of connecting everyone, and we
will keep working until everyone has the opportunities this satellite
would have provided,” he wrote on his Facebook account.
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