Everyday Astronaut recently went on a tour of SpaceX’s ‘Starbase’ launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, guided by company CEO Elon Musk. Musk gave Everyday Astronaut‘s Tim Dodd a tour of the High Bay, where SpaceX assembles Starships, and a glimpse of the under-construction MegaBay at the site. The 45-minute video is chock full of intricate details […]
After successfully launching 53 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday, May 13, SpaceX is now aiming for back-to-back Starlink missions on consecutive days. Elon Musk’s space exploration and satellite internet company plans to deploy another 53 Starlink satellites into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from […]
The Canadian government is investing more than $1 million to offer SpaceX’s Starlink internet to 1,162 separate households in Manitoba, as detailed on Friday in a press release. With $1,045,800 CAD going towards the project, the Rural Municipality of St. Laurent is set to reimburse households in the area for connecting to the satellite internet. […]
In late March, SpaceX debuted a Starlink internet availability map, showing which regions of the world had access to the satellite internet immediately and those that had to be on a waitlist. Fast forward to today, SpaceX has updated the Starlink map to now improved availability by region, showing areas where the internet is “available”, […]
The province of Quebec in Canada will leverage SpaceX’s Starlink internet for over 10,000 homes in rural areas of the province, reports CTV News. According to Gilles Belanger, the parliamentary assistant to the premier at a press conference on Monday, Starlink was the most viable solution for difficult-to-reach areas instead of fibre optics. “The only […]
Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin seems to have threatened SpaceX head Elon Musk, in a long tweet directed toward the U.S. billionaire and entrepreneur. Rogozin threatened Musk on Twitter over the weekend, saying in a note that SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet was given to Ukrainian marines and “militants of the Nazi Azov battalion.” In the […]
During a recent interview with CNBC, SpaceX President and COO, Gwynne Shotwell, was asked when she thinks her company will be able to transport people to Mars. This is the goal of SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, and one that the rocketry giant has been working towards ever since it was created. “We should put […]
As SpaceX expands its Starlink satellite constellation, the company is already gearing up to move to its reusable Starship spacecraft to prepare for future missions. SpaceX launched 53 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Friday, as detailed on the company’s website, with the launch taking place at 5:42 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at […]
SpaceX’s Texas site, dubbed Starbase, is home to many towering pieces of spacecraft, and now it’s home to one high school prom couple’s memories, too. A couple shared prom photos taken at SpaceX’s Starbase in Brownville, Texas on the SpaceX Facebook page last week (via @Tesla Owners Silicon Valley). The photos show the couple standing […]
SpaceX has launched a new Starlink feature called Portability, allowing existing users to use their satellite internet service away from their home location, such as camping or visiting a friend’s house (via @SawyerMerritt). For $25 USD extra per month, the Starlink Portability feature “enables users to temporarily move their Starlink to new locations in order […]
As SpaceX’s operations at its Texas launch center grow, so too do the company’s power needs, as depicted in new plans to increase the site’s solar farm. SpaceX is expanding the on-site solar farm powering operations in Boca Chica, Texas by about 1.7 acres, according to documents seen by CNBC from the U.S. Fish and […]
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine goes on, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX’s Starlink internet is keeping many connected throughout the country. SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service has around 150,000 active users per day in Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official on Monday (via Twitter). Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, @Mykhailo Fedorov, […]
SpaceX will once again have to kick its hopes of launching Starship’s first orbital flight further down the line. According to a new project update on the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) website, the Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for SpaceX’s proposed Starship/Super Heavy Launch Vehicle Program at the Boca Chica Launch Site in Cameron […]
SpaceX and its Falcon 9 rocket launched 53 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Friday at 2:27 PM PDT. This particular Falcon 9 rocket, B1062, successfully launched and landed for the sixth time; previous missions included GPS III Space Vehicle 04, GPS III Space Vehicle 05, Inspiration4, one Starlink mission and the Ax-1 mission from […]
Axiom Space signed an agreement with the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) of the United Arab Emirates (UAB) to host a UAE crew member aboard the Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station in 2023, according to a press release. Axiom Space President and CEO Michael Suffredini emphasized the accomplishment, being the country’s first […]
