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by Jason Rainbow — December 8, 2022 SpaceX launched 40 satellites Dec. 8 in the first of three missions for OneWeb's rival broadband constellation. Credit: SpaceX webcast TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched 40 satellites for OneWeb’s rival broadband constellation Dec. 8 on a Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket lifted…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX launched a big batch of OneWeb internet satellites into orbit Thursday evening (Dec. 8) on a mission that supports a megaconstellation competitor after OneWeb's own launch plans were derailed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 40 OneWeb satellites launhed from NASA's Kennedy…

by Jason Rainbow — December 8, 2022 T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert (left) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced plans for direct-to-cellphone satellite services at SpaceX’s Starbase test site in Texas. Credit: SpaceX webcast TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX could provide “full and continuous” direct-to-smartphone services across much of the globe with…

Home News Spaceflight A Japanese billionaire picked his crewmates for the first-ever artist-centered mission. Yusaku Maezawa, who made his fortune as an online fashion retailer, announced the eight people who would be flying with him on the dearMoon mission, which aims to use a SpaceX Starship to fly around the moon…

Starlink announced earlier this week the debut of Starshield. This new venture will ostensibly serve as the company’s defense industry counterpoint with the US military as its first customer. First launched in 2019 through Elon Musk’s SpaceX venture, Starlink aims to provide high-speed, reliable satellite internet service virtually anywhere on…

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky takes part in a flag raising in the de-occupied city of Izyum, Kharkiv region in September 2022.— AFPNEW YORK: Time magazine named President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as "the spirit of Ukraine" as its 2022 person of the year on Wednesday, for the resistance the country…

Forty OneWeb satellites mounted on a dispenser before encapsulation inside a SpaceX payload fairing. Credit: OneWeb OneWeb’s broadband network will get a boost from SpaceX, which operates its own internet constellation, with the launch of 40 satellites on top of a Falcon 9 rocket set for Thursday from Kennedy Space…

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images) Whether you like it or not, Tesla/SpaceX/The Boring Company/Twitter/Neuralink CEO Elon Musk is inherently influential as the planet’s wealthiest person, and his influence covers a lot of ground—including that which is currently going on in the video game world. Not exclusively, since Musk’s year was…

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of now-bankrupt FTX has always dodged the question of why FTX used investor money to support Alameda. However, SBF chose to ignore the question and instead said that he made the decision to stay out of Alameda’s trading and risk management and hence was unaware…

Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches a batch of the company's Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Sept. 18, 2022. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX is expanding its satellite-internet business. SpaceX already beams broadband service to customers around the world via its huge and ever-growing Starlink constellation. Over…