Elon Musk will be hoping for more luck with a launch of 46 of his Starlink broadband satellites today (February 21st) at 9.44am EST time. The last batch of Starlinks launched on February 3rd saw 40 totally destroyed by a geomagnetic storm. This latest launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space […]
Elon Musk is considering shifting the giant SpaceX Starship development and testing work from its current Texas base to Florida. Musk’s worry is an ongoing environmental review being undertaken by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA is expected to deliver its verdict on Starship testing by February 28th, and which – if favourable – […]
NASA, by and large, has a cordial relationship with Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket business. The space agency is a major client for SpaceX and an enthusiastic supporter where it has committed millions of dollars to SpaceX for its launch system and rocket connectivity to the International Space Station. But now, it is complaining about Starlink. […]
Elon Musk says that a geomagnetic storm wiped out 40 of the 49 Starlink satellites launched on February 3rd. The solar storm happened 24 hours later and will mean that the broadband satellites will not reach orbit and in time will burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere. SpaceX, in its statement, said the 40 craft […]
A study from Dr Sergei Pekhterev (co-owner of Astra-Internet) shows that the bandwidth of each of Elon Musk’s Starlink low Earth orbiting satellites is carrying 16 data beams and can serve some 2080 users as each craft passes overhead. Pekhterev has used Starlink data which states that each satellite covers about 380 square kms of […]
The US State of Alaska’s Department of Commerce has released its background data on SpaceX’s financial structure for 2022 (as at December 31st 2021). The documents show some surprises. Elon Musk’s percentage of shares owned, at 43.08 per cent is no great surprise although his stake has shrunk from 47.11 per cent during 2021. Google […]
A bright Florida afternoon sky helped SpaceX and its Falcon 9 to successfully launch 49 of Starlink satellites on February 3rd. The triple success was the third Falcon 9 launch in barely 10 days. Two were from Florida and the other from Vandenberg Air Base in California. The two Floridian launches successfully returned their booster […]
LeoLabs and OneWeb have entered into a multi-year agreement where LeoLabs will be providing collision avoidance to support operational safety of flight for OneWeb’s growing fleet of spacecraft. “With OneWeb as a valued LeoLabs customer, LeoLabs Collision Avoidance is now utilised by the three largest constellations in the world — SpaceX, OneWeb, and Planet (among […]
SpaceX plans to launch its much-delayed batch of Starlink satellites later today (February 3rd). A Falcon 9 rocket will loft 49 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit. The launch, subject to the usual weather considerations is scheduled for 1:13 pm EST, which is the opening of an instantaneous window at Pad 39A at Kennedy […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch team have had a troubled weekend. First, three scheduled launches of an Italian satellite were scrubbed because of bad weather at Cape Canaveral. The rescheduled launch was planned for January 30th (6.11pm Florida time) but a cruise liner sailed into the formal ’no go’ zone waters downrange from the Cape and […]