Report: FAA to cancel Verizon contract in favor of Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Remember a few long months ago when and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos (who competes with Elon Musk in his AI and rocket businesses) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (who competes with Musk in his AI busine...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX stake is now worth more than his Tesla shares on paper
For years, Elon Musk’s staggering wealth was primarily anchored on the value of his stake in the world’s leading electric vehicle maker, with his wider forays into space, social media, AI, tunnels, so...
T-Mobile’s shares climb following its Super Bowl Starlink announcement
shares climbed early Monday, following the carrier’s announcement that it opened a beta trial of its Starlink-powered satellite texting feature. The company said that 500,000 square miles of coverage ...
Palantir reportedly invested in a space firm planning an IPO
Space company Voyager Technologies has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Colorado-based company, which is one of many firms developing a co...
Elon Musk’s Starbase is trying to become a real city
One of Elon Musk’s company towns is hoping to make things official. Starbase, a community near Brownsville, Texas, which has a SpaceX rocket launch site and where many employees and their families liv...
Before and after: Aerial photos show what being Elon Musk's neighbor can do to your land
Whoever had “Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX” on their 2024 bingo card, you win. This month the party game company filed a lawsuit seeking $15 million in damages from SpaceX for trespas...
How much Elon Musk’s SpaceX makes — and could lose — from the American government
The owner of the site formerly known as Twitter posted another bad tweet — and this time it could cost him. Following an apparent second assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, Elon Mu...
United Airlines seeks stellar connectivity, teams up with Starlink
Last week, United Airlines announced it would start testing a partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink to provide passengers with Wi-Fi, following similar deals between Starlink and other carriers, such as ...
China’s attempt at a Starlink killer launches first batch of satellites
China is trying to close the gap in the satellite space race. According to Chinese media reports, the state-owned Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) launched a rocket carrying over a dozen ...
Space stuff: We’re launching more stuff into orbit... way more
Hard launch We are launching more stuff into space than ever before. Indeed, us Earth-dwellers launched a record-breaking 2,664 objects into space last year… with the US — be that American companies ...
Take evasive action: Satellites are having to avoid collisions a lot more than they used to
Take evasive action!SpaceX's Starlink satellites have been forced to perform more than 25,000 course corrections in the last six months to avoid collisions with other spacecraft and orbital debris, a...
Liftoff: SpaceX's valuation just keeps soaring
Liftoff SpaceX is reportedly looking to sell insider shares at $80 apiece — a price point that would propel the valuation of the company to an astonishing $150bn, making it the second most valuable ...
Satellite struggles: Dish is having issues
Dish’s washed The share price of Dish Network Corporation, the second-biggest satellite TV provider in the US, hit its lowest level since 1999 this week, dropping some 9.4% as analysts continue to do...
Internet access: How many people on Earth are online?
More than one-third of the world's population has never used the internet, according to a new global report from the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU estimates that there are ...
SpaceX is creating NASA spaceport congestion problems
NASA is considering expanding its Wallops Island, Virginia, facilities to support three times as many rocket launches, TechCrunch reports . Why does it need space for that many rockets? Mostly Elon Mu...
Elon Musk isn’t being honest about Starlink profitability
Known fabulist Elon Musk might have been a bit too optimistic about his satellite internet company Starlink being in “profitable territory.” Bloomberg reported that Starlink “often strips out the heft...
How Elon Musk’s Starlinks are getting to US foes
When Elon Musk isn’t getting involved in messy social politics on Twitter, he’s getting involved in messy geopolitics of war. The Wall Street Journal did a deep dive into how devices from Musk’s satel...