For the second time, SpaceX assembled their two-stage Starship rocket in Texas. However, this time SpaceX used building-sized arms installed on the Starbase launch tower to lift the massive upper stage onto the Super Heavy […]
SpaceX launched another batch of 49 Starlink satellites onboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center last week. Unfortunately, almost the entire payload has been, or soon will be destroyed. According to a […]
SpaceX is sending a team of engineers to Fiji to operate a temporary ground station for their Starlink internet services for Tonga. The team is part of the broader effort by SpaceX to provide stable […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will be providing an update on the development of his company’s Starship program next week. In a tweet this afternoon, Musk said the presentation will take place Thursday, February 10 2022 […]
In a somewhat surprising move, SpaceX casually released Starlink Premium today. The service is not up and running yet, but will start deliveries at the start of Q2 2022. Users can expect download speeds of […]
SpaceX set a record in 2021 with 31 launches throughout the year, beating the previous record from 2020 in which it launched 26 times. If they are able to follow through on their plans in […]
Starlink is planning a new ruggedized satellite dish. The dish would operate in hotter and colder temperatures and avoid the “thermal shutdown” problem that residential dishes have in extreme temperatures. In a filing on Friday, […]
The small south Pacific island nation of Tonga was devastated by a large underwater volcanic eruption last weekend. The eruption and subsequent tsunami resulted in significant damage to many critical pieces of infrastructure. One of […]
The United States Air Force awarded SpaceX a $102 million five-year contract to demonstrate point-to-point space transportation. The contract is meant to fund the demonstration of technologies and capabilities to transport military cargo and humanitarian […]
During their first launch of 2022, SpaceX revealed the number of active Starlink users has grown to 145,000. SpaceX engineer Jessie Anderson made the announcement, saying the satellite internet service is now available in 25 […]
