Category: SpaceX

Japan Is First Asian Country With Starlink Satellite Internet Services

Starlink, the SpaceX satellite internet provider owned by Elon Musk, has officially debuted in Japan, the company announced on Twitter on Monday, making the country the first in Asia to have access to Starlink. Starlink が日本でのサービスを開始しました - アジアでは初めてのサービス国です → t.co/slZbTmHdml — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 10, 2022 Japan’s telecommunication firm KDDI Corporation said in September 2021 that…


SpaceX Delivers Russian, Native American Women to Station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A Russian cosmonaut who caught a U.S. lift to the International Space Station arrived at her new home Thursday for a five-month stay, accompanied by a Japanese astronaut and two from NASA, including the first Native American woman in space. The SpaceX capsule pulled up to the station a day after launching into…


SpaceX Delivers Russian, Native American Woman to Station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A Russian cosmonaut who caught a U.S. lift to the International Space Station arrived at her new home Thursday for a five-month stay, accompanied by a Japanese astronaut and two from NASA, including the first Native American woman in space. The SpaceX capsule pulled up to the station a day after launching into…


SpaceX Capsule Heads to Space Station Ferrying NASA Crew and Russian

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida on Wednesday carrying the next long-term International Space Station crew, with a Russian cosmonaut, two Americans, and a Japanese astronaut flying together in a demonstration of U.S.-Russian teamwork in space despite Ukraine war tensions. A high-ranking official of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said shortly…


Elon Musk Says Starlink Satellites Now Connecting Schools in World’s Biggest Rainforest

Tesla Inc and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Thursday that his space company’s Starlink service is connecting schools in the Amazon region. What Happened Musk’s comments were made on Twitter in response to a tweet from Fábio Faria, Brazil’s Minister of Communications. The Brazilian official, belonging to President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration, had showcased a school…


Operation Space Clean Up: Researchers Develop Novel Garbage Collection Methods

Australian researchers have set their sights on cleaning up the outer space junkyard orbiting Earth to avoid a chain reaction of self-sustaining debris collisions, using lasers and artificial intelligence technology. Space debris expert Don Kessler, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was reported by The Age,  as the first to notice that space is…


Elon Musk Hints at Potential Apple–Spacex Partnership for iPhone 14 Satellite Feature

Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he’s had some “promising conversations” with Apple Inc. over Starlink connectivity. The billionaire entrepreneur said on Twitter Thursday that the iPhone team is obviously “super smart.” “For sure, closing link from space to phone will work best if phone software & hardware adapt to space-based signals vs…


SpaceX Appeals US FCC Rejection of Rural Broadband Subsidies

WASHINGTON—SpaceX on Friday challenged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to deny the space company’s satellite internet unit $885.5 million in rural broadband subsidies, calling the move “flawed” and “grossly unfair,” in a regulatory filing. The FCC last month turned down applications from billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX and LTD Broadband for funds that had…


NASA Orders 5 More Astronaut Missions From Musk’s SpaceX in $1.4 Billion Deal

WASHINGTON—SpaceX will launch five more astronaut missions to the International Space Station for NASA at the end of the decade under a $1.4 billion contract order, the space agency said Wednesday, taking the company’s total contracted missions for its Crew Dragon astronaut capsule to 14. The latest boost to SpaceX’s NASA contract is part of…


US Court Upholds SpaceX Satellite Deployment Plan

WASHINGTON —A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the decision of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve a SpaceX plan to deploy some Starlink satellites at a lower Earth orbit than planned as part of its push to offer space-based broadband internet. Elon Musk’s SpaceX won FCC approval in 2021 to fly 2,824 satellites…