Elon Musk’s Starlink helping to restore Tonga’s internet
SpaceX chief Elon Musk has sent a team of Starlink engineers to the South Pacific to help get Tonga back online after a recent volcanic eruption severed the only cable connecting the island nation to the internet. With repairs to the undersea cable still ongoing, and a population desperate to contact loved ones overseas, several politicians in the region have beenmaking public calls asking Muskif he would be able to use his Starlink internet satellites to restore Tonga’s internet connection following the January 15 disaster....