Another batch of SpaceX Starlink terminals have arrived in Ukraine, according to Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation on Tuesday. “A new batch of Starlink stations is already in Ukraine! Technology is our future. Today it helps Ukrainians! It helps the new good to defeat the old evil. Ukraine is […]
Jared Isaacman, commander of the Polaris Program, with the rest of his Polaris Dawn team coordinated the donation of nine SpaceX Starlink terminals to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, the institution said on Monday. We are humbled to share 9 @SpaceX Starlink units were donated to our clinic & foundation partners […]
Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX has officially reached two decades as a company, as depicted in a new post on Monday. @SpaceX shared a post celebrating 20 years as a company on Monday, featuring a post with a video depicting some of the company’s greatest accomplishments. In the post, SpaceX said, “Today we celebrate […]
Last month, SpaceX enabled Starlink satellite internet in Ukraine shortly being asked by the government, whose nation is under invasion by Russia. Just days after, the first truckload of Starlink terminals arrived in Ukraine, allowing the country’s officials and more to connect to the SpaceX satellite constellation in the skies. On Wednesday, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s […]
After another successful SpaceX launch, the company’s Starlink satellite constellation has expanded once again. SpaceX launched another 48 Starlink satellites on Wednesday morning at 8:45 a.m. EST, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It marked the 41st overall Starlink launch for SpaceX. The company says this was […]
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company worked for weeks to get approval for Starlink internet in Ukraine, prior to the country tweeting at CEO Elon Musk just days after Russia began invading, according to Space News. In a talk for the California Institute of Technology on March 7, Shotwell said “We had been working […]
Elon Musk said on Friday evening that SpaceX had been “reprioritized” to cyber defense and overcoming signal jamming. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO noted on Twitter that Starship and Starlink V2 would be delayed slightly as a result. SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense & overcoming signal jamming. Will cause slight delays in Starship & Starlink […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed some governments have asked the company to block Russian news sources on its Starlink satellite internet service. Musk detailed the request on Friday evening, saying, “Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint.” “Sorry to […]
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Crew-4 team recently took a trip to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, to train for their upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-4 team comprises NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. At SpaceX headquarters, […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has provided an update on SpaceX’s Starlink internet in Ukraine. After activating Starlink satellite internet in Ukraine in less than a day after it was requested, Musk and his teams shipped a truckload of satellites to the nation under attack by Russia. On Thursday, Musk said SpaceX was “updating software to […]
Between SpaceX launching cargo for various branches of the U.S. military and deploying its own satellites for Starlink internet, the space exploration company’s launch calendar stays busy year-round. 47 new Starlink satellites were deployed on Wednesday morning following a successful launch of the same morning, as was confirmed hours later by @SpaceX. The launch took […]
Ukraine has conducted successful tests of SpaceX’s Starlink service in the country, with download speeds in excess of 200 Mbps — reports The Kyiv Independent. 🌟Ukraine conducts successful test of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet system. Speeds reached over 200 megabits per second. SpaceX CEO @elonmusk provided Ukraine with the system to make sure that Russian […]
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday announced that it has officially awarded SpaceX three additional crew flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under its Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract. The announcement comes almost three months after the agency issued a notice of intent to procure more ISS flights from […]
After requesting to Elon Musk for Starlink satellite internet access for Ukraine, the SpaceX CEO responded a mere 10 hours later to say the service was active in the country, while also adding more terminals were coming. On Monday, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, shared a picture of a […]
One Starlink user shared a photo of the latest dishy terminal covered in ice, which revealed a beautiful and intricate antenna pattern design on the hardware (via Reddit). The user pointed out that, when they arrived home from work at about 3:00 a.m., the Starlink service was offline and the dish was searching for satellites. […]
