Elon Musk has revealed on Twitter that SpaceX has now manufactured more than 1 million Starlink user terminals. Starlink has enjoyed a steady rise in its subscriber numbers. In March this year Starlink claimed 250,000 users. By May that had expanded to 400,000. By June this year the business claimed it had 500,000 users. That […]
September 24th saw Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch an additional 52 Starlink satellites (mission 4.35) into orbit at 7.32pm Florida time. Musk’s business also responded to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s request to advance internet freedom and the free flow of information to Iran. Musk said last week that Starlink, which is already available to […]
SpaceX and US cellular provider T-Mobile will launch a direct-to-phone satellite connection using SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink craft. At an event August 25th (dubbed ‘Coverage: Above & Beyond’) T-Mobile’s CEO and President Mike Sievert and SpaceX’s Elon Musk announced what they described as a breakthrough new plan to bring cell phone connectivity everywhere on the planet. […]
Elon Musk had, by now, hoped to be using the SpaceX Starship rocket to launch its Starlink satellites in significantly larger batches that the current 50 or so per flight. But various regulations have kept the Starship demo flights firmly on the ground. The delay in testing and launching Starships is impacting Musk’s plan to […]
The FCC has turned down Elon Musk’s SpaceX request for an $886 million (€860m) grant as part of the US government’s massive $20.4 billion rural broadband subsidy scheme. The FCC had previously awarded the sum back in 2020, but that move has now been rejected. In a statement, the FCC said the FCC said that […]
Elon Musk-backed SpaceX has raised an additional $250 million (€245.5m) in an equity round during July. The extra cash means that SpaceX has raised some $2 billion this year. CNBC, in a May report, says that the cash then raised puts a value on SpaceX of more than $127 billion. It is also suggested that […]
Elon Musk is backing out of his proposed $44 billion (€43.5bn) acquistion of social media site Twitter, alleging multiple breaches of the agreement. Musk made his movie back in April, sayng he wanted “to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating […]
Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite system can now be used for caravans, RVs, boat and aircraft operators thanks to the FCC’s decision to approve access to mobile services. “Authorising a new class of terminals for SpaceX’s satellite system will expand the range of broadband capabilities to meet the growing user demands that now require connectivity while […]
OneWeb already has some two-thirds of its 648 broadband constellation in orbit while Amazon’s Kuiper has yet to start launching its initial fleet of 3,236 satellites. Elon Musk’s Starlink has launched 2,706 craft into their target low Earth orbits. Some of the Starlinks have failed but OneWeb and Kuiper have agreed a set of planned […]
Reports suggest that SpaceX has acquired land East of Austin, Texas, to build its ‘Project Echo’. The new project involves a new warehouse built on some 170 acres of land. The local application covers construction in Bastrop County, and which is located not far from a new Tesla factory and where Elon Musk’s Boring Company […]