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T-Mobile has announced an agreement to use SpaceX’s Starlink constellation of low-Earth-orbit communications satellites for text message coverage across the continental U.S., Hawaii, parts of Alaska, Puerto Rico and U.S. territorial waters—remote regions outside the signal of T-Mobile’s terrestrial network.
The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, recently tested using autonomous vehicles to speed up material handling at a parts warehouse, an experiment to find ways to free up personnel for aircraft maintenance work.
