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SpaceX is Elon Musk’s spaceflight company, known for its reusable Falcon rockets, the Starship program, and the Starlink satellite network. Coverage here includes launches, test flights, mission milestones, and the company’s ambitions for Mars. Follow this tag for the latest from the leader in commercial space.
SpaceX has agreed to buy Grain Management’s nationwide 800MHz spectrum portfolio, up to 14MHz paired, and says it will build the world’s most advanced mobile network and become a major US carrier. The low band fills the one gap mid band cannot cover, but analysts point out that reliable indoor coverage in cities still needs a terrestrial network SpaceX has not started building.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off on a Falcon Heavy on August 30. Its 2.4 meter mirror came free from the National Reconnaissance Office, and it captures a patch of sky at least 100 times wider than Hubble in a single shot.
SpaceX is putting a $100 billion Starship spaceport on 125,000 acres of Louisiana marsh, with ten launch pads and a first flight targeted for 2029. The laws that shield the project from public records requests passed three months before the announcement.
Forty feet beneath Launch Complex 39 sits a domed concrete bunker on springs, built to survive a fully fueled Saturn V exploding overhead. You reached it by jumping into a 200-foot slide. It was never used, and SpaceX is legally required to keep it.
Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package runs on 12 tranches of milestones stretching to 2035. A change-of-control clause buried on page five could collapse all of it into a single transaction, and analysts put the payday at roughly $824 billion. Here is how it would work, and why the odds are still against it.
Researchers at Kyoto University used the orbital drag of roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites to build the first tomographic map of Earth’s thermosphere, turning a commercial broadband network into a planet-scale atmospheric sensor.
Well, those Falcon 9 landings never get old. Imagine, just over a decade ago the idea of being able to…
The year 2025 ended with more than 14,000 active satellites from all nations zooming around the Earth. One-third of them…
Dish parent company EchoStar is selling wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for around $17 billion, the companies announced on Monday.…