his, group includes virgin galactic. he joins us from the nekker islands.he very commercial sector of the space industry. when are we going to see it launch? >> it's very exciting. we've set up a company called one web with some wonderful partners and we plan to put seven or 800 satellites up initially, i mean nearly half the total number of satellites that are currently in space. and that will connect some of the one and a half billion people in the world that literally don't have internet or wifi access. if you don't have wifi or internet access or mobile phone access you're going to be held back. so that's in a very, very exciting venture. and obviously our space program is back on track in february we're going to unveil our new spaceship. and you know we're looking forward to a wonderful, exciting new era of space travel ahead of us. >> you and i spoke after the crash of spaceship 2, coming up to the anniversary of that in november. tell me what's going on at space port america in new mexico, a lot of taxpayer money went into that, $200 million went int

. >> we ha competitors virgin galactic another company rocket -- competing a cliche competition is goodning what it is that you do what small satellites are. >> well we think of space in the context of exploration recoverers on mars land on the ground-moon that is to dramatically change next step in information revolution is going to take place from spays data that we are hungry for is going to be transmitted in space silicon valley creating small satellites very effective the barrier is getting to space where firefly companies like virgin galactic come in if you think of firefly, think of firefly as the uber for space. >> now that is big deal; right? >> what does it mean for people here on planet either are what does it mean sending this many rockets into space what does it mean here. >> profound social economic implications 70% of world don't have access to the internet. >> 70% of the world. >> yes. >> very lucky here. so what that means is we now have to democratization for people around the world can share ideas if you watched firefly movie one scene says you can't stop the signal t