Elon Musk, the boss of SpaceX.
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SpaceX wants to set up in Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron, a small village of 350 inhabitants located in the south of the Channel.
The American astronautics company wants to install a relay antenna made up of several motorized domes there for its very high-speed satellite Internet project, Starlink.
The land chosen is located less than two kilometers from the village, reports
La Gazette de la Manche
.
The municipality opposes
According to the departmental weekly, the Electronic Communications Regulatory Authority (Arcep) validated the use of radio frequencies on December 1 and for a period of ten years.
But on the side of the small Norman town, the project is not unanimous, on the contrary.
The city council voted against.
“We still lack a lot of information.
We are opposed to this project because we do not know the risks to health, ”explained the mayor of Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron, Benoît Hamard.
In addition, the area chosen by SpaceX is classified Natura 2000, specifies France 3 Normandie.
Providing Internet access to the whole world
With Starlink, SpaceX wants to provide high-speed Internet access anywhere in the world, even in the most difficult to access areas.
To do this, the company of American billionaire Elon Musk intends to send thousands of satellites.
Several hundred are already in orbit.
In France, two other municipalities were chosen for installations similar to that of Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron, underlines
La Gazette de la Manche
.
These are Gravelines (North) and Villenave-d'Ornon (Gironde).
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