Browsing: SpaceX
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 picked Qualcomm’s Dragonwing hardware for tens of thousands of Starlink Mobile cell sites, with a rollout starting in 2027. We break down what the deal covers, what SpaceX still needs before it can sell you a phone plan, and what changes for carrier customers today.
T-Mobile CEO Srini Gopalan called satellite “an inferior version” of fixed wireless and ruled out letting SpaceX run a Starlink Mobile MVNO on his network. Here is what he said, why every big US carrier is saying the same thing, and what it means for your phone plan.
Montreal developer Niko Draca’s free browser game Roadflip lets you kickflip a virtual Tesla Roadster. We checked the real car’s thrusters, nine years of delays and the legal gray zone it lands in.
easyJet will fit Starlink Wi-Fi to its A320 family jets from 2027, its first onboard internet ever, but won’t say yet what it will cost. Here is where US airlines stand and how to check whether your next flight has it.
Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees of independent directors to study a merger worth roughly $3.5 trillion. Here is how a deal would work, the governance fights ahead and what it could do to the world’s biggest fortune.
Zelensky says Ukrainian test cars kept a Starlink link above 180 km/h in the EU while terminals at home cut out at 161 km/h, proof he calls a planned operation. Washington, Musk and Kyiv still tell different stories.
Elon Musk says he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in America next year. At about $146 a share, that is roughly $10.7 billion. Here is the math, the open questions, and what parents should do now.
Michael and Susan Dell’s $6.25 billion pledge is now landing as $250 deposits in roughly 25 million Trump Accounts. Whether your child gets one depends on your ZIP code, not your paycheck. Here is how the check works, why the threshold changed, and why the internet spent the week talking about Susan Dell instead.
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.