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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 […]

SpaceX kicked off its first launch of 2023, with its Transporter-6 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. On Tuesday, January 3 at 9:56 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Transporter-6, the company’s sixth dedicated smallest rideshare mission. This was the 15th launch and landing of this Falcon 9 stage […]

On Thursday, December 29 at 11:38 p.m. PT, SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket to kick off the ISI EROS C-3 mission to a low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This particular Falcon 9 booster saw its 11th launch and landing, previously supporting Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, […]

SpaceX this week completed three launches in under 36 hours, with the third mission also being the first-ever 15th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket. The company kicked off the back-to-back launches with NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to low-Earth orbit, which lifted off at 3:46 a.m. PT/6:46 a.m. ET on Friday, […]

SpaceX on Tuesday filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to outfit 2,016 second-generation Starlink satellites with payloads for the “direct-to-cellular system” it is partnering with T-Mobile on, as spotted by Tesla North reader Nathan Owens (@VirtuallyNathan). Back in August, SpaceX and T-Mobile announced satellite phone and data service for the latter’s […]

SpaceX has launched a referral program for Starlink, available in Germany and received by @awlnx (via @VirtuallyNathan). SpaceX sent out an email to existing Starlink customers in Germany that included a unique referral code link to share. The unique referral URL looks like this: starlink.com/?referral=RC-1173-49138-8 SpaceX says for a limited time, new customers in Germany […]

SpaceX today launched its Cargo Dragon capsule’s 26th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-26) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 2:20 p.m. ET/11:20 a.m. PT from the Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/FcVOep82eo — SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 26, 2022 CRS-26 was originally slated […]

On the weekend we told you SpaceX had expanded Starlink to all of Canada, Norway and Sweden. On Monday, SpaceX confirmed what we reported, announcing Starlink had again expanded its coverage. SpaceX just announced under an hour ago that Starlink “is now available across all of Alaska and Canada,” directing users to the updated coverage […]

SpaceX is hiring engineers to work on next-generation Starlink technology at its Redmond, Washington, facility, as spotted by Tesla North reader Nathan Owens (@VirtuallyNathan). According to one job listing on SpaceX’s website, the company is looking to hire specialists for its Starlink Solar 2.0 team that will work on solar stringer machines. https://twitter.com/VirtuallyNathan/status/1594359493332455425 “Working for the Starlink […]

SpaceX on Saturday launched Intelsat’s Galaxy-31 and Galaxy-32 satellites to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) aboard a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket lifted off at 11:06 a.m. ET/8:06 a.m. PT in what was SpaceX’s 52nd mission of 2022. This […]

SpaceX continues its goal towards the first orbital flight of its Starship rocket, and now we’re hearing about a move that may help the mission. According to The Information on Thursday, it says SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell will take over Starbase in Texas, the site where Starship is being built. Starship […]