Elon Musk To Help Launch Satellites For Apple’s Emergency SOS Feature: Report – News18

Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch satellites to offer communications for Apple’s Emergency SOS by way of Satellite characteristic, which debuted with the iPhone 14 sequence. This improvement comes after Globalstar—Apple’s associate—signed a take care of SpaceX, based on the corporate’s federal submitting.

As reported by Nola, Globalstar can pay a complete of $64 million for “launch-related payments on a periodic basis” from now till all satellites are launched in 2025 as a part of the signed deal.

For these unfamiliar, Apple launched its Emergency SOS by way of Satellite characteristic with the iPhone 14 sequence and is anticipated to introduce the identical characteristic with its iPhone 15 fashions launching this month. The characteristic permits stranded customers in choose areas  who may need encountered an emergency, and who don’t have any mobile service, to contact emergency companies utilizing their iPhones.

SpaceX, then again, is a spacecraft manufacturing and launching firm based by the billionaire Elon Musk.

Furthermore, based on Nola’s report, Globalstar bought these satellites again in February 2022 from a Canadian firm referred to as ‘Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates Corp.’ for $327 million. The iPhone maker loaned Globalstar $252 million to fund this buy. This shouldn’t be the primary occasion of Musk-owned SpaceX helping Globalstar; previously, it has helped the Apple associate launch satellites for Florida’s Cape Canaveral.

It stays to be seen whether or not the rising variety of satellites will prolong the attain of the Emergency SOS by way of Satellite characteristic past areas restricted to the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, and France—or if that is merely a routine train to take care of the service’s clean operation.

In associated news, Apple has unveiled that the launch date for its iPhone 15 sequence will probably be September 12. At the occasion, the tech big is anticipated to introduce the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max/Ultra. Also on the occasion, there would be the new Apple Watch Series 9 and the second-generation Apple Watch Ultra.