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Health Wagon President and CEO Teresa Tyson says Starlink internet service will improve the nonprofit’s patient outcomes. Photo by Tim Cox
Aug 30, 2023

Satellite internet improves mobile health care

The Health Wagon got its start in 1980 when Sister Bernadette Kenny, a nurse practitioner, began dispensing free, much-needed health care to people in rural Appalachia from her Volkswagen Beetle.   “She was thinking outside the box,” says Health Wagon President and CEO Teresa Tyson. Kenny served as inspiration, Tyson says, when the health care […]

SpaceX launched its 12th Starlink mission on Sept. 3 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo courtesy SpaceX
Dec 14, 2020

Wise County is first to receive Starlink internet in Va.

Wise County Public Schools announced Monday it is the first school district in Virginia to use SpaceX‘s Starlink satellite internet constellation for high-speed internet. Founded by Elon Musk, aerospace company SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches spacecraft and is working to deploy its Starlink system, a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit that will delivers […]

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