Apple’s top iPhone supplier goes to outer space with new satellites


Two prototype low-Earth orbit satellites made by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, better known as Foxconn, took off aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in southern California on Saturday. — AFP

The world’s biggest producer of iPhones is going to outer space.

Two prototype low-Earth orbit satellites made by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, better known as Foxconn, took off aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in southern California on Saturday.

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