The Information has exclusively reported that Badeel, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), and Alpha Dhabi, an investment firm based in Abu Dhabi, are gearing up to participate in a multibillion-dollar funding round for Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Sources familiar with the investor discussions have revealed this development. SpaceX and Morgan Stanley, the […]
SpaceX on Friday successfully completed two rocket launches within four hours, an incredible cadence that no other company has done before. On Friday, March 17 at 12:26 p.m. PT, the company’s Falcon 9 rocket launched 52 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This […]
SpaceX looks to launch its Starlink satellite internet service in South Korea, reports Yonhap News Agency. Sources claim SpaceX has established a subsidiary in Seoul, called Starlink Korea LLC. It was created on March 8 and lists Lauren Ashley Dreyer, SpaceX’s senior director of Starlink business operations, as the representative, say sources. Earlier this year, SpaceX […]
SpaceX recently made a change to its Starlink Kit, specifically reducing the length of the included cable that attaches to the company’s dish. The Starlink Kit includes the Starlink V3 rectangular dish itself, base for the dish, router, Starlink cable and 6-foot AC cable. The Starlink Cable length has been shortened from 75 feet (22.9m) […]
SpaceX has officially launched hardware rentals for its high-speed satellite internet service, Starlink, in the U.K. (via Reddit). “Starlink is now offering hardware rentals throughout the United Kingdom,” SpaceX says on the Starlink website. Buying your own Starlink hardware in the U.K. costs £529. Renting it, however, only costs £15 per month. In addition to […]
SpaceX today launched its first batch of Starlink ‘V2 Mini’ satellites into low-Earth orbit, the next generation of its internet satellites, that offer 400% more capacity than previous iterations of its Starlinks. At 6:13 p.m. ET (23:13 UTC), Falcon 9 launched 21 second-generation Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at […]
SpaceX on Sunday showed a glimpse at its new ‘V2 Mini’ Starlink satellites, which the company calls a “step forward” in capability for the low-Earth orbit satellite internet. “We call them “V2 Mini”. They represent a step forward in Starlink capability,” said SpaceX, showing two photos today. “V2 minis include key technologies—such as more powerful […]
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday notified SpaceX of a proposed $175,000 civil penalty against the space transportation and rocketry giant for not submitting some safety data before launching an August 2022 Starlink mission (via Reuters). According to the FAA, SpaceX failed to submit launch collision analysis trajectory data to the civil aviation regulator […]
Indiana-based American Queen Voyages (AQV) announced last week it is upgrading its Wi-Fi across its entire fleet of cruise lines to SpaceX’s Starlink internet. Part of the Hornblower Group, AQV will upgrade its entire fleet of seven, which includes its cruise lines Rivers, Lakes & Oceans, and Expedition vessels. The company says it is the […]
SpaceX has confirmed it will attempt to perform a 33-engine Super Heavy static fire on Thursday, February 9, 2023. That’s according to SpaceX president Gwynn Shotwell, speaking at the FAA Commercial Space Transportation conference on Wednesday, as reported by Jeff Foust of SpaceNews. Super Heavy is part of the Starship transportation system designed to head […]
SpaceX has launched Starlink internet in the French overseas territory of Reunion, the remote island located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius. According to SpaceX’s Starlink availability map, it has been updated for La Réunion to show as “available”, noted Tesla North reader Nathan Owens on Wednesday. SpaceX continues to […]
SpaceX announced on Friday it has launched its Starlink satellite internet service in Peru. “Starlink ahora está disponible en Perú!”, said SpaceX, which translates to “Starlink is now available in Peru.” Starlink ahora está disponible en Perú! → https://t.co/slZbTmZmAt — SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 27, 2023 SpaceX updated its availability map today, showing Peru now as […]
SpaceX has completed a wet dress rehearsal (WDR) for its Starship 24 and Super Heavy Booster 7, signs it is moving one step closer to the rocket’s first orbital launch. A wet dress rehearsal (WDR) is a type of rocket launch test in which all systems are activated and checked, including fueling the rocket, but […]
Indiana-based THOR Industries announced on Tuesday it has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to integrate Starlink flat high-performance dishes into select motorized recreational vehicles (RVs) in the U.S. and across the THOR family of companies in 2023. THOR says its family of companies are the first RV OEMs to work with SpaceX to integrate […]
SpaceX is raising $750 million USD as part of a new round of investment that puts the private company’s valuation at a whopping $137 billion — reports CNBC. The news comes just a couple of months after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk denied reports of the company planning to raise funds at a valuation of over […]
