SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday morning provided an update on Starlink, the company’s constellation of satellites for internet serving rural customers. Musk said there are now 1,469 Starlink satellites active, with 272 “moving to operational orbits” at the moment. He also added, “laser links activate soon.” The latest Starlink satellites have optical laser links, […]
SpaceX successfully launched the Transporter-3 Mission on Thursday, using the Falcon 9 booster to launch a total of 105 orbiting Spacecraft, as seen in a video shared on the SpaceX YouTube channel. The launch took place on Thursday morning at the Cape Canaveral, Florida Space Force Station during a 29-minute launch window. The company also […]
SpaceX has revealed it plans to launch its second-generation Starlink satellite constellation with its Starship rocket only, instead of its dependable Falcon 9. The news was revealed in a January 7 letter to the Federal Communications Commission, reports SpaceNews. According to SpaceX lawyer William Wiltshire, development has exceeded the company’s expectations and thusly, it could […]
SpaceX’s high-speed satellite broadband service, Starlink, received its license to start operating across Canada in October 2020 after an “unprecedented” 2,195 people wrote to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and lobbied for it. The service received rave reviews from Canadians a month into its launch. Now, well over a year since the service […]
At around 6 a.m. PST on Friday morning, SpaceX Starlink users across the globe started experiencing network outages. Hordes of the high-speed satellite broadband service’s subscribers took to Reddit, Twitter, and other platforms, only to find that they weren’t alone in facing connectivity problems on the network. While some users experienced a complete service blackout, […]
SpaceX is set to launch 49 Starlink satellites into orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, set for 4:49pm ET. This is the first launch in 2022 for SpaceX. This particular Falcon 9 first stage booster will be flying for the fourth time, after previously launching the GPS III-4, GPS […]
SpaceX has officially launched its Starlink satellite internet in Spain this week, according to customers sharing the news on Reddit. An email sent out by SpaceX informed customers Starlink would be available in limited capacity, with download speeds between 100 to 200 Mbps at launch. The email says Starlink internet is going to be improved […]
SpaceX will be refunding all of the pre-orders the company has received for its Starlink internet service in India since it is “currently unknown” when it will receive licenses to operate in the country — reports SpaceNews. “Unfortunately, the timeline for receiving licences to operate is currently unknown, and there are several issues that must […]
After the first launch of SpaceX’s Starship with a Super Heavy Booster was initially planned for December 31, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided it will take extra time to evaluate the environmental impacts of the launch. The FAA is delaying SpaceX’s first orbital Starship launch with the company’s Super Heavy Booster to a […]
As the modern space race begins to heat up, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has raised a new round of funding that’s well over 300 million USD. SpaceX raised more than $337.4 million USD new funding from equity financing, according to a regulatory filing with the SEC on Wednesday, Reuters reports. With major investors like Alphabet Inc […]
Last week, SpaceX successfully launched a cargo Dragon capsule chock-full of supplies and holiday gifts to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a brand new Falcon 9 rocket, B1069, as part of its CRS-24 mission for NASA. The subsequent recovery of the B1069 first-stage booster marked SpaceX’s 100th successful landing of an orbital-class rocket. However, both […]
In a complaint submitted to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs earlier this month, China claims that satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink Internet Services had two “close encounters” with the country’s under-development Tiangong Space Station — one on July 1 and another on October 21, forcing the space station to take evasive action to […]
3D artist rykllan (@_rykllan) has created and shared a graphic showing 100 successful SpaceX booster landings and 78 booster reflights, spanning from 2006-2021. All #SpaceX's launches in one picture. From 2006 to 2021. Launch with its mission name, date, rocket visualization & booster number.#Falcon9 #FalconHeavy #Space pic.twitter.com/rUhEQx0iYC — rykllan (@_rykllan) December 26, 2021 SpaceX hit […]
Australian Tesla Model X owner Harald Murphy (@harald_murphy) recently attached a SpaceX Starlink terminal to their car and drove it around to test the satellite broadband service’s signal strength and internet speeds on the go. Driving around a nearby freeway at over 60 mph (around 100 km/hr), Murphy found that he was getting download speeds […]
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying “science, supplies, and holidays treats” for the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) performed successful stage separation earlier today at around 2:20 a.m. PST, approximately 12 minutes after launch. Stage separation confirmed! The @SpaceX Dragon is now floating freely and […]
