SpaceX

by Jason Rainbow — November 10, 2022 A false-color image of the United Kingdom acquired by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-3A satellite. Credit: ESA TAMPA, Fla. — The United Kingdom gave SpaceX permission Nov. 10 to expand its Starlink satellite broadband network in the country, while also granting a license…

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Xi Jinping has issued a direct warning to Putin not to use nukes in Ukraine in China's bluntest rebuke yet to the Kremlin. Xi also urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was visiting Beijing, to push for peace talks - saying the international community should 'create conditions for the resumption…

As recently as October 24th, Ukraine’s military suffered a partial internet outage after 1,300 Starlink terminals went offline due to a funding shortage, reports CNN. The blackout occurred amid ongoing talks between SpaceX and the Department of Defense that continue despite Elon Musk having said his company would continue to…

Elon Musk’s satellite internet company is about to start slowing some users down. According to Starlink’s (the internet division of SpaceX) new fair use policy, folks who use Starlink for home internet may now experience throttling if they use too much internet during a monthly billing cycle. If you don’t…

After Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter became official this week, many users found themselves flocking to different social media platforms. Musk’s new position as CEO of the company resulted in mass layoffs on Friday in an effort to cut costs, with Bloomberg reporting that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was…

There’s a lot to keep up with right now regarding Elon Musk’s ongoing slash-and-burn Twitter tactics following his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform, but that’s hardly the only ongoing project on his plate. Take the Boring Company, for instance—the business in charge of making the Hyperloop a…

SpaceX had plans to create a futuristic transportation system called the Hyperloop. Those plans have hit an indefinite pause. Plans for the subway of the future involved levitating pods across tubes of tunnels under found Elon Musk’s futuristic transportation venture, the Boring Company. But as reported by Bloomberg, a prototype…

The city council confirmed to Bloomberg that the former tunnel will become parking spots. Image: Robyn Beck-Pool (Getty Images) Elon Musk’s hyperloop—the sci-fi-esque subway of the future that definitely will not flood—is apparently hitting a speed bump. The Hyperloop’s inaugural tunnel, a prototype built in Hawthorne, California, has been torn…

For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has been breaking new ground in astronomy, cosmology and planetary science, delivering results that few if any other facilities can match—let alone exceed. No other orbital observatory has managed such consistent high performance for so many years, thanks to a series…