[andrewtbham]

no one saw it coming? they anounced this in 2015.

Here is a video where elon explains the system very well in 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeZHyOnsm4

[dshields1]

People also speculated that this was the reason Alphabet invested in SpaceX. (Which was around the same time as that announcement)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/technology/google-makes-1-...

[AdamTReineke]

2014 - http://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-next-mission-internet...