Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to live on the International Space Station, has beaten Elon Musk in the next leg of the space race as he joined Vodafone to make the world's first space video call.
Using an unmodified smartphone, the signal is sent to a satellite in orbit before being transmitted back to the network] British astronaut Tim Peake (right) joined Vodafone CEO Margherita Della Valle (left) to make the world's first video call directly via satellite.
British astronaut works with Vodafone to make the world's first space video call - pipping Starlink to the post The US may have won the space race back in 1969 by being the first nation to put a man on the moon.
British astronaut Tim Peake has teamed up with Vodafone to make the first ever direct-to-cell satellite video call - pipping Elon Musk's Starlink to the post.
But Musk has been beaten to the punch and missed out on becoming the first to conduct a video call via satellite] 'When I was on the ISS, once a week I would have a call back to my family, and having the video call made a big difference.'.
