Apple’s Top iPhone Supplier Goes to Outer Space With New Satellites

  • Taiwan’s Foxconn wants to replicate outsourcing model in orbit
  • Company launches first two LEO satellites on a SpaceX rocket
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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.