{"id":90849,"date":"2019-05-17T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/elon-musk-says-spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-are-key-to-funding-his-mars-vision"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:04:48","slug":"elon-musk-says-spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-are-key-to-funding-his-mars-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/elon-musk-says-spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-are-key-to-funding-his-mars-vision","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says SpaceX Starlink internet satellites are key to funding his Mars vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-are-key-to-funding-his-mars-vision.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starship is designed to be a fully reusable launch system, and is intended to transport as many as 100 people at a time to and from the moon or Mars.<\/p>\n<p>On the call Wednesday, Musk clarified that SpaceX\u2019s recent fundraising rounds \u201chave been oversubscribed.\u201d He said SpaceX has the funding needed to build and launch enough Starlink satellites to begin using the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point it looks like we have sufficient capital to get to an operational level,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/05\/15\/musk-on-starlink-internet-satellites-spacex-has-sufficient-capital.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starship is designed to be a fully reusable launch system, and is intended to transport as many as 100 people at a time to and from the moon or Mars. On the call Wednesday, Musk clarified that SpaceX\u2019s recent fundraising rounds \u201chave been oversubscribed.\u201d He said SpaceX has the funding needed to build and launch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}