
Brazil touts partnership with SpaceX to connect rural areas and monitor Amazon forest
CNN
Brazil is looking to partner with SpaceX to expand internet connection to rural schools and protect the Amazon, the country's Communications Minister Fabio Faria tweeted on Tuesday.
Faria's tweets include a video and photo of himself with SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, whom he met in Texas.
"We're looking forward to providing connectivity to the least served people in Brazil...especially to schools and hospitals in rural areas," Musk says in the video, shaking hands with Faria.

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