Elon Musk's plan to beam high-speed internet to Earth using thousands of satellites is expected to launch tomorrow, according to a twitter post from the CEO.
The SpaceX CEO shared a photo on the social media platform showing a rocket packed full with what he called the 'first 60' satellites.
It is the first mission of Starlink, the billionaire's project to bring high-speed internet coverage to the globe through orbiting satellites.
Musk had originally tweeted that if conditions were right the launch would take place today, but a later comments put the date of launch to Wednesday.
Elon Musk 's plan to beam high-speed internet to Earth using thousands of satellites is expected to launch tomorrow, according to a twitter post (pictured) from the CEO.
In his original post, Musk wrote: 'First 60 @SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing. Tight fit.'
Alongside, he posted two pictures, the first showing a satellite-packed rocket and the second of his own Tesla car inside a rocket - to demonstrate the internal size of the spacecraft.
'Much will likely go wrong on first mission,' Musk wrote on Twitter, adding that it would take six more similar launches to reach 'minor' broadband coverage and 12 for 'moderate' service.
In his latest comment on the post thread, he added: 'More details on day of launch, currently tracking to Wednesday.'
The Tesla CEO first posted the picture of his red sports car in 2017 on Instagram.
The planned launch is part of SpaceX's multibillion-dollar Starlink project, which has been approved by the US communications agency, to send almost 12,000 satellites into space.
A previous demonstration of prototypes called Tintin A and B was carried out in February 2018 with coverage good enough to play fast response video games, according to Musk.
The latest satellites have a production design unlike the earlier models, though Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president and chief operating officer, reportedly told attendees at the recent Satellite 2019 conference that these will still be scaled down without intersatellite links and will not start launching satellites for actual service until later this year.
The SpaceX CEO shared the above photo on Twitter showing a rocket packed full with what he referred to the 'first 60' satellites. It is the first mission of Starlink, the billionaire's project to bring high-speed internet coverage to the globe through orbiting satellites
Mr Musk posted two pictures in the Twitter post, the first showing a satellite-packed rocket and the second his own Tesla car in a rocket (above) - to demonstrate the size of the spacecraft. The Tesla CEO first posted the picture of his red sports car in 2017 on Instagram
According to an announcement from Ms Shotwell, the company will launch dozens of satellites into space as a beginning demonstration for the Starlink project.
The preliminary launches will deploy pared down versions of its satellites that will function more as a test, she said.
Notably, the trial versions will lack the ability to communicate with one another - a feature that will help full-fledged satellites avoid colliding into each other.
'This next batch of satellites will really be a demonstration set for us to see the deployment scheme and start putting our network together,' Ms Shotwell said at the conference in Washington, DC, as reported by SpaceNews.
She added the company could conduct as many as six launched this year depending on how the upcoming demonstration launches go.
The latest comments from the SpaceX CEO's Twitter account on the expected launch of the '60 satellites' this week as part of the Starlink project to bring internet coverage to Earth
Elon Musk (pictured) is behind SpaceX and its project, Starlink, which aims to launch thousands of satellites capable of providing high speed, low-latency
