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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>A team of specialists from Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has arrived in the Fiji Islands to install the company\u2019s Starlink Gateway station for providing Internet access to Oceania\u2019s Tonga that suffered a major volcanic eruption in mid-January, Fiji authorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Starlink is a next-generation satellite network for providing broadband Internet access across the world. The project was launched by SpaceX in February 2018.<\/p>\n

Since then, nearly 2,000 satellites have been put into orbit with a total of 12,000 devices projected to be deployed in the future. \u201cThe Hunga Tonga volcano\u2019s shockwave shattered Tonga\u2019s internet connection, adding days of gut-wrenching uncertainty to disaster assessments.<\/p>\n

A @SpaceX team is now in Fiji establishing a Starlink Gateway station to reconnect Tonga to the world,\u201d Fijian Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said on Twitter. Sayed-Khaiyum expressed gratitude to Musk for \u201cthe great initiative. \u201d<\/p>\n

The disruption of communication lines in Tonga was caused by the impairment of the islands\u2019 major undersea cable as a result of a powerful underwater volcanic eruption that occurred beneath the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai islands on January 15.<\/p>\n

The eruption, considered the world\u2019s strongest in the past 30 years, caused a severe tsunami and covered the islands with a thick layer of volcanic ash.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Lesotho. A team of specialists from Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has arrived in the Fiji Islands to install the company\u2019s Starlink Gateway station for providing Internet access to Oceania\u2019s Tonga that suffered a major volcanic eruption in mid-January, Fiji authorities said on Monday. 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