SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 carrying 60 new Starlink satellites and marking its 84th flight

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched the fifth batch of its ‘Starlink’ space internet satellites – taking the total to 300. They form a constellation of thousands of satellites, designed to provide low-cost broadband internet service from low Earth orbit. The constellation, informally known as Starlink, and under development at SpaceX’s facilities in Redmond, Washington. Its goal … Read more

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites cause stir as they streak through skies of western Europe

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched the fifth batch of its ‘Starlink’ space internet satellites – taking the total to 300. They form a constellation of thousands of satellites, designed to provide low-cost broadband internet service from low Earth orbit. The constellation, informally known as Starlink, and under development at SpaceX’s facilities in Redmond, Washington. Its goal … Read more

SpaceX approved to build 1 MILLION ‘user terminals’ that connect people to its Starlink internet

SpaceX is approved to build 1 MILLION ‘user terminals’ that will connect people to high-speed internet provided by its satellite constellation The company has FCC approval to build terminals for its Starlink project Terminals will connect users on Earth to its constellation of satellites  Elon Musks says the terminals will look like ‘poles with little … Read more

British SpaceX Starlink competitor OneWeb launches another 34 mini satellites

British SpaceX Starlink competitor OneWeb launches another 34 mini satellites into orbit around the Earth bringing its mega-constellation up to 74 This is the third OneWeb launch in the construction of its mega-constellation OneWeb plans to have 650 satellites orbiting over 745 miles above the Earth  The company plan to launch its rural broadband service … Read more

Under Lucky Stars petitions against SpaceX’s plans to send Starlink satellites into orbit

Elon Musk is set launch at least 12,000 Starlink satellites into low-orbit to blanket the world with high speed internet, but the plan is causing quite the stir among astronomers and stargazers – the devices are blocking their views of the night sky. Now, a group of designers have taken matters into their own hands … Read more

SpaceX Starlink could hamper astronomers’ ability to spot dangerous asteroids

Constellations of thousands of satellites from companies like SpaceX and OneWeb could hamper the ability of astronomers to spot ‘dangerous asteroids’, study warns. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) study examined the impact satellites from the likes of Amazon, SpaceX and OneWeb would have on astronomy.  Companies plan to launch thousands of communications satellites into orbit … Read more