SpaceX has reportedly told some of its investors that it expected overall revenues this financial year to be in the region of $8 billion (€7.1bn) – double the revenues of 2022. However, this sum is less than some have forecast (around $11.6 billion). A report from The Information says: “The expectation for rapid growth helps […]
Paris-based Eurospace, which represents Europe’s space hardware manufacturers, has released its annual industry study, and says that private launches into orbit now exceed government-backed launches which includes military and scientific missions. The one fact which jumps out of the report is that 2022 saw almost 1,000 metric tons of space hardware launched into orbit. And […]
Malaysia’s prime minister Anwar Ibrahim recently had a video conference with Elon Musk about his SpaceX broadband service. The end result is a likely order to equip some of the country’s colleges and schools with a Starlink service. But first the system must be formally licensed. Communications and digital minister Fahmi Fadzil said there are […]
July 13th saw a secondary sale of shares from existing investors with stock priced at $81 per share, and a modest rise over the most recent cash-raising which saw shares sold at $77. A total of $750 million in new cash was raised in the offering exercise according to a CNBC report, meaning that the […]
Australian telco Optus, in collaboration with SpaceX have agreed to deliver mobile connectivity using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation. Together, Optus and SpaceX plan to cover 100 per cent of Australia. “Optus has always thought differently about what it means to deliver connectivity to our customers, and today we proudly provide mobile coverage to 98.5 per […]
July 7th saw SpaceX launch 48 Starlink broadband satellites into their transfer orbits. The launch was from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. On July 9th at 11.58 pm (Florida time) another batch of 22 satellites was launched from Cape Canaveral. That launch saw the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster successfully land onto a […]
French electronics retail chain FNAC is selling SpaceX’s Starlink dish and modem equipment at a 56 per cent discount. The retail offer price is €199.99 and customers can pre-order with delivery from today [July 10th]. The monthly subscriber fee in France is €50. Starlink has more than 1.5 million subscribers around the globe, and the […]
Australian telco Telstra has signed an agreement to become what it says makes it the first provider in the world to offer voice-only and voice plus broadband powered by Starlink to rural and remote Telstra customers in Australia. Telstra CEO Vicki Brady said the Starlink agreement was part of Telstra’s T25 strategy commitment to launch […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket-to-broadband business has been valued at about a $150 billion (€137.6bn) business. The value comes as Musk is offering to sell shares to the unquoted company that would raise the current value to about $150 billion, says Bloomberg News, quoting people familiar with the matter. SpaceX is offering shares at more than […]
SpaceX is targeting today (June 12th) to launch an additional 53 Starlink satellites into orbit, subject to the usual weather considerations. The launch, at 3.10pm (Florida time) continues the near-nonstop cadence of SpaceX overall activity. On the West Coast SpaceX is also targeting June 12th for a Falcon’s launch of the Transporter-8 mission to low-Earth […]