Mena: Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg satellite who was bringing free internet to Central and Southern Africa was destroyed in an explosion. Knowledge and information are power, that FB satellite could have give millions of Africans access to a lot of information. Millions of Africans could have discovered Afrocentric website like Real HistoryWW, BeforeBC.de, Rasta Live Wire and Egypt Search Forum
Kaboom! The moment Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket EXPLODED on the launch pad and destroyed Facebook's $200m internet satellite Unmanned SpaceX rocket was due to launch on Saturday with Facebook's first communications satellite The rocket exploded during a static fire test early Thursday at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station There were no personal injuries in the blast, however, the rocket and payload were completely destroyed Buildings several miles away shook from the blast, and multiple explosions continued for several minutes NASA spokesman Al Feinberg said emergency personnel were monitoring the situation The air quality is being monitored by officials for any potential threats to employees Facebook's Amos-6 satellite would have widened Internet access across Africa including 14 countries Mark Zuckerberg wrote about the explosion, confirming that the company's satellite was destroyed and said he was 'deeply disappointed' SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said: 'Loss of Falcon vehicle today during propellant fill operation. Originated around upper stage oxygen tank. Cause still unknown. More soon' SpaceX has managed to land four rockets from space back on Earth
The video shows the blast appearing to originate near the second stage or inter stage area of the rocket before it sent the faring, or payload, toppling over onto the ground creating another explosion
Billionaires at war: Elon Musk sees his fortune drop $390m after his SpaceX rocket destroys 'disappointed' Zuckerberg's $200m satellite SpaceX rocket due to launch on Saturday with Facebook's first satellite Exploded during a static fire test early at Cape Canaveral before launch, destroying the cargo Facebook's Amos-6 satellite would have widened Internet access. and has cost $200m to develop Was due to beam connectivity across Africa including 14 countries Facebook CEO is currently in Africa at a conference and would have been there to mark Saturday's launch SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the cause of the accident was still 'unkown' The CEO lost $390m of his personal fortune on Thursday as his shares in his other venutres Tesla and SolarCity took a hit
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed his 'deep disappointment' at the destruction of his revolutionary $200million satellite on Thursday when the SpaceX Falcon 9 owned by Elon Musk's company suffered a catastrophic explosion
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Was it sabotage? Free internet = a free mind?
Seems like the only US and Korea and small parts of Northern Europe has the high speed 4G.
They don't want the level playing field?
Quote: Facebook first announced its plans to launch a satellite to provide internet access to remote parts of Africa in October 2015, with Zuckerberg saying 'I'm excited to announce our first project to deliver internet from space. Posts: 12143 | From: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable | Registered: Jun 2007
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quote:Originally posted by xyyman: Was it sabotage? Free internet = a free mind?
Seems like the only US and Korea and small parts of Northern Europe has the high speed 4G.
They don't want the level playing field?
Quote: Facebook first announced its plans to launch a satellite to provide internet access to remote parts of Africa in October 2015, with Zuckerberg saying 'I'm excited to announce our first project to deliver internet from space.
I would bet money that it was indeed sabotage.... If 30% of the people in Africa was able to access such information with speed and ease, that'd equate to massive problems for the western world. The dark continent is still in the dark and shall remain in the dark.
Did you see mark zukerburgs seminar in Nigeria? or the Ted talk videos about the sudden interest in Africa's economy... fcuk no was a satellite of this caliber gonna launch before the 2016 election. To Africa, another 3-7 years before the playing field is "leveled" ...hopefully for those in power, they can screw the common-folk over so bad that no progress outside of "Established" rulership will be significant....This world sucks.
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quote:Originally posted by argyle104: WAAAHHHH!!!!
WAAAHHHHHH!!!!
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We beez po old helpless blacks.
Go get jobs motherfuckers. Instead of sitting around all day caterwauling about how sorry Aficans and "blacks" are.
ewwww hewww hewww <sniffle> <sniffle> <cough>
WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
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You can find similar things among all people in all countries and not just only to these Ethiopians. Quit acting like you own misery, victimization, and inferiority. Which is what certain other people including this author wants you to think.
Sorry suckers.
PS. Have any of you numbskulls ever considered that you are part of the reason why no one wants to be considered African or "black". Stupid victim mama drama queens wailing and whining in inferiority, victim, and po saureee pitiful psychosis all day everyday.
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argyle104 said it better than me in 2008 (Thread - Languishing at the Bottom of Yemen’s Ladder).
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Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg satellite who was bringing free internet to Central and Southern Africa was destroyed in an explosion. Knowledge and information are power, that FB satellite could have give millions of Africans access to a lot of information. Millions of Africans could have discovered Afrocentric website like Real HistoryWW, BeforeBC.de, Rasta Live Wire and Egypt Search Forum
It is an open question how "free" the Internet would be. Zuckerberg, Musk and the rest don't do nuthin for "free." It could be they wanted to jump into the satellite game with the pile of cash they are sitting on. By claiming it as a charitable endeavor for Africa, they get tax write-offs. Sweet. They get to look cool and progressive while padding their already overflowing money-chests. Its like the big white corporations in places like Detroit which got millions in tax money, and tore down massive swathes of housing occupied by mostly poor blacks, to "gentrify" an area, to their profit. They get to keep the tax breaks, as well as the dollars spent by the upscale whites in the newly "redeveloped" or "gentrified" zones.
Finally, the "free" Internet still requires substantial infrastructure investment, such as even ore satellites and launches, and most of the cash spent will go to favored Western companies, with slices siphoned off by native elites. Even more important, what's the use of all the "free" internet when there are tens of millions of Africans don't even have access to clean running water? Clean water on tap would be much more beneficial to the man on the street, including numerous spillover benefits such as in disease prevention, than in investments lining Zuckerberg's pockets. The billions they will spend can be applied towards much more pressing needs, such as AIDS anti-retrovirals for the hundreds of thousands of sick in Africa. When will the cash actually flow down to these people?
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If they gave Internet access to Africa for "free", then you should habitually ask, Why?
One should note that the satellite was designed and built by an Israeli company with deep ties to the US DoD, CIA, and Israeli intelligence.
Knowing this, even a 16 yo should be able to deduce what the true cost of the service is no different than Facebook; Surveillance.
African's SHOULD be capable of launching their OWN internet satellite, but African leaders as a whole are a gaggle of ultra ignorant waste of Eumelanin skin. Totally worthless!
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Everyone knows those African leaders are puppets,the only true Africa leader was idi Amin but the whites tried to make him seem like a crazy man.
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Build your own satellite. Oh wait, niggas can't! so they extend their hands to whitey and mr. Chin. Pathetic losers.
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quote:Originally posted by Real tawk: Build your own satellite. Oh wait, niggas can't! so they extend their hands to whitey and mr. Chin. Pathetic losers.
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2016/06/07/nigeria-to-send-man-to-space-cnnmoney-giokos-pkg.cnn Yeah in time they will it's called transfer of technology, or reverse engineering , I think Nigerians are on track to put a man in space in about 15yrs, the spin-off from that will do wonders, put things into perspective Japan have yet to put a man in orbit not using NASA, I see you are back from your self imposed exile.
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SunSpace South Africa and http://www.spaceteq.co.za/home/ Gotta start somewhere. Talk is cheap. What have you losers ever built,? A ham sandwich, maybe.
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48 South Africa targets new satellites
Artist's impression of South Africa's second low-orbit satellite, SumbandilaSat, which was launched in 2009 but knocked out of commission by a blast of solar radiation in 2011 (Image: Department of Science and Technology)
7 October 2011 South Africa is planning to build its third satellite, to form part of a new African satellite constellation, as part of a government drive to grow the country's share of the global market for small- to medium-sized space systems. "Our intention is to expand our investment in 'micro' satellites, building on the existing SumbandilaSat platform," Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor told delegates at the 62nd International Astronautical Congress, the prestigious annual congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), in Cape Town this week. The country's second satellite, the two-year-old SumbandilaSat, has been out of commission since a blast of solar radiation damaged its on-board computer in July. Sandile Malinga, chief executive of the SA National Space Agency (Sansa), announced last month that South Africa hoped to start building a new, fully operational satellite – not just a prototype or "pathfinder" satellite such as SumbandilaSat – as early as 2012, for possible launch by 2014/15. The new satellite would cost in the region of R400-million - compared to the R26-million spent on SumbandilaSat - and would also be used for earth observation, in line with the country's space strategy, which seeks to apply satellite data to help to improve livelihoods, reduce poverty and manage natural disasters in the country and the region. African Resource Management Constellation Ideally, the new satellite will be one of at least four satellites together forming the African Resource Management (ARM) Constellation of satellites which was formally agreed on between South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria and Kenya in 2009. "The basic idea behind the ARM concept is that a number of African countries each contribute one satellite to the constellation, but can access data from all the other satellites as well," Pandor said in Cape Town this week, adding that ARM was "open to other interested African countries to join on the basis of their needs and capabilities." Nigeria and Algeria each have two satellites already up and running, Business Day noted this week, as does Egypt, while Angola has one – leaving South Africa somewhat lagging in Africa's "space race". "But unlike the others, we build our own satellites," Business Day quoted Malinga as saying this week. SumbandilaSat was built by Stellenbosch-based company Sun Space and Information Systems (SunSpace). Its predecessor, Sunsat, launched in 1999, was designed and built by Stellenbosch University staff and postgraduate students, leading to the formation of SunSpace, in which the state is seeking to acquire a majority shareholding. Space facilities 'that are unique in Africa' "SunSpace has secured orders from international clients for satellites and subsystems, and has also demonstrated that it can train engineers in other emerging space nations," Pandor told delegates at the IAF's congress this week. "In the field of satellite development, South Africa possesses some space facilities that are unique in Africa. These include a satellite assembly, test and integration facility, situated not far from here in Grabouw, and a launch facility situated at Arniston [also in the Western Cape]." Further development in this field, Pandor said, would be accompanied by the development of applications for the provision of geospatial, telecommunications, timing and positioning products and services in the country. "Here we are working to develop our capabilities in earth observation, communication and position, timing, and navigation," which would play a big role in understanding the causes and effects and climate change, among other applications. "We are particularly interested in South Africa in tele-medicine and tele-education, and we have only just begun to tap the possibilities," Pandor said. SumbandilaSat programme 'successful' While SumbandilaSat is now out of action, it had succeeded as a satellite technology demonstrator programme, Malinga maintains. The satellite was designed and built from scratch in one year, at low cost, by South African engineers, who also developed a world-class mission control system for the programme. SumbandilaSat delivered over 1 000 very usable, cloud-free images before being damaged by solar radiation, and became well-known by the amateur radio satellite society worldwide for the excellent results from its amateur radio payload. "The success of the programme as assessed by the international space science community has put South Africa on the map for its ability to develop and operate small- and medium-sized satellite programmes," Malinga said in a statement last month. "Many of the nine black satellite engineers trained as a result of the programme are still active in the satellite industry and are performing excellently." SA exploring own satellite launch capability Malinga said that Sansa was also exploring whether or not South Africa should try to establish its own satellite launch capability. At least one South African company has an interest in this. Marcom Aeronautics & Space recently announced that it was developing a rocket engine as part of its development of a two-stage, liquid-fueled launch vehicle capable of delivering a 1 000kg payload into low-Earth orbit. Sunday Times reported last year that the government was considering reopening apartheid-era space rocket launch sites in order to fast-track the country's national space programme. Last month, defenceWeb reported that South Africa "has existing infrastructure that could be utilised for local satellite launches, notably facilities at Air Force Base Overberg." Marcom head Mark Comninos told defenceWeb that, although Overberg's launch pad was destroyed as part of South Africa's nuclear stand-down and the payload processing facility was mothballed, the site had retained almost all of its space launch capability, including mission control centre, radar and telemetry tracking facilities and range safety systems. "According to the UK Space Strategy, the overall world market for the space industry is likely to grow from £160-billion in 2008, to at least £400-billion by 2030, with a yearly growth rate of 5%," defenceWeb wrote. "In September 2010, Space News reported that the global satellite market stands at between 20 and 30 satellite launches a year. "In April 2010, the trade publication Satellite Markets & Research said that Africa was one of the fastest growing markets for telecommunications and satellite services and is growing at nearly twice the global average of 6-7%. This growth is set to continue well into the next decade, spurred by demand for cellular and internet connectivity as well as government initiatives, Satellite Markets reported. "An estimated 20 new satellites with coverage on Africa will be launched in the next five years to address the current capacity shortage on the continent." SAinfo reporter Print this page Send to a friend
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