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SpaceX is deep into planning for its newest Starship launch. Super Heavy, the first stage of the rocket that hefts Starship into space, was moved to a Starbase pad for testing ahead of the planned sixth flight of the next generation space system, SpaceX officials stated on Tuesday (Oct. 22). (Starbase is the location in […]
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Dish Network’s parent company isn’t giving up trying to use the 12GHz radio spectrum for a 5G service, despite concerns from SpaceX that doing so risks crippling Starlink access in the US. “The FCC should act quickly to authorize fixed wireless services in the lower 12GHz band,” EchoStar EVP Jeff Blum said in a statement. […]
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By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Eutelsat, the world’s third-biggest satellite operator by revenue, launched 20 satellites for its communications network on Sunday, using Elon Musk’s SpaceX in its first move since the merger of two European companies last year. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off with Eutelsat satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force […]
SpaceX plans to send a set of internet satellites to orbit for another company early Sunday morning (Oct. 20). SpaceX plans to launch the last batch of Eutelsat OneWeb’s V1 satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday at 1:13 a.m. EDT (0513 GMT; 10:13 p.m. on Oct. 19 […]
Will SpaceX get what it wants? SpaceX has a history of making big promises, but several things could go wrong between where we are now and the path to gigabit internet. First, it could face opposition from competitors. AT&T and Verizon have already asked the FCC to deny the SpaceX request, and stationary satellite providers […]
Everyone already knows the outline of the story: Elon Musk loved tweeting, saw his net worth in two years quintuple to US$250-billion from the booming value of Tesla and SpaceX, casually bought 9% of languishing Twitter stock in April 2022, agreed to join the board, got annoyed by the board, irritably made an offer (with […]
“Since the start of the space age, we’ve had a throwaway culture – a bit like plastics in the ocean,” says Nick Shave, managing director of Astroscale UK, an in-orbit servicing company headquartered in Japan. Getting a satellite into orbit around the Earth used to be a big deal. From the launch of the first, […]
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