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Starship’s Sixth Flight Test Skips the Tower Catch, Ends in Soft Splashdown
A live audience that included President-elect Trump, plus millions more on SpaceX’s stream, watched the world's most powerful rocket lift off but did not see it return to its origin.
US' El Capitan Is Now the World's Fastest Supercomputer
The supercomputer, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieves 1.742 exaFLOPs. China's machines could be even faster, but it's not sharing details publicly.
SpaceX Eyes 2 Gigabit Speeds for Starlink With Capacity Upgrades
SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell says the company's improvements to satellite communications are advancing at a rate similar to Moore's Law for computer chips.
AST SpaceMobile to Test Cellular Satellites With 2K AT&T, Verizon Devices
The company also wants to beta-test the first batch of BlueBird satellites by beaming cellular connectivity to emergency responders, according to new FCC filings.
Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Gambles on Blue Origin to Launch Large Satellites
In addition to SpaceX, AST SpaceMobile will use Blue Origin's unproven New Glenn rocket to launch its next-generation BlueBird 2 satellites.
This Radio Telescope Is Coexisting With Starlink, But for How Long?
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is 'confident' it can work out radio frequency issues with SpaceX and other providers, but next-gen cellular satellites will likely pose a bigger obstacle.
SpaceX Pitches NASA on 'Marslink,' a Version of Starlink for the Red Planet
SpaceX's concept is among two other ideas for developing 'next-generation relay services' capable of beaming 4Mbps or more in data across vast stretches of space.
SpaceX Asked Starlink Suppliers to Leave Taiwan Amid Tensions With China
Some SpaceX suppliers are leaving Taiwan over geopolitical concerns and setting up shop in Vietnam and Thailand instead.
SpaceX: Cellular Starlink Connected 27,000+ Phones in Areas Hit by Hurricanes
The company's 'direct-to-cell' Starlink satellites also transmitted more than 250,000 SMS texts.
EU's Starlink Rival, IRIS2, Won't Offer Full Service Until Early 2030s
The IRIS² satellite constellation will be small, but it will make the EU less reliant on SpaceX.
Apple to Bolster iPhone Satellite Services With $1 Billion Investment
The funding will go to company partner Globalstar, which plans on building a new satellite constellation to power Apple services.
AST SpaceMobile Unfolds Giant Satellites, Astronomers Fret About Light Pollution
The company's five BlueBird satellites—each of which feature a 700-square-foot panel—are now among 'the most luminous objects in the sky,' according to one expert.
Elon Musk Wants to Operate Thousands of Cellular Starlink Satellites
Musk has big ambitions for the cellular Starlink system, which currently has about 300 satellites.
LiDAR Reveals Huge Mayan Civilization Buried in Mexican Jungle
A PhD student discovers a public dataset on 'page 16 of a Google search' that helps uncover a major urban center once home to 50,000 people in 800 AD.
AMD Chips Are Powering Newest Starlink Satellites
AMD says aerospace players, including SpaceX's Starlink, are using its Versal custom chips.
NASA Backs Proposal to Orbit Starlink Satellites Closer to Earth
As part of a study, NASA supports letting SpaceX operate 400 satellites in 300-kilometer orbits, below the International Space Station, for 60 days.
Let There Be Broadband: SpaceX Lights Up Starlink in US National Radio Quiet Zone
The quiet zone exists to prevent disruptions to radio telescopes in Virginia and West Virginia, but SpaceX is now steering satellite beams away from the radio telescopes as they pass overhead.Â
No Direct Satellite View Needed: Cellular Starlink Phone Gets Signal in Your Pocket
'I thought the human body would attenuate more signal,' according to a SpaceX exec who also teased 'light data' for the cellular Starlink service next year.
AST SpaceMobile: SpaceX Is a Bully, Uses Anticompetitive Tactics
AST SpaceMobile urges the FCC to reject 'incendiary rhetoric' from SpaceX, which wants to increase radio emission limits for its cellular Starlink tech.
Putin Asked Elon Musk Not to Deploy Starlink in Taiwan
Musk and Russian leader Putin have reportedly been in frequent contact.
