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The Jeff Bezos-backed rocket company Blue Origin has announced it’s building a new broadband internet satellite constellation that will offer something even Starlink can’t match: the fastest internet in the world. With projected speeds of up to 6Tbps for both upload and download, it would offer internet connectivity orders of …

SpaceX has announced it found a defect in some of its early Starlink satellites. With other communication satellites, attempts might be made to rectify the issue or simply ride it out until the issue causes a failure. Not SpaceX, though. The highly distributed nature of Starlink means SpaceX can just …

Purchasing increasingly ostentatious yachts has become a pastime for the ultra-rich, but even the fanciest boat in the world is currently stuck with poor internet connectivity. That’s about the change, though. Starlink has announced a version of the service specifically for boats, ships, yachts, and oil rigs. The service is …

SpaceX might have lost a few satellites recently, but there are plenty more where those came from. Musk’s aerospace firm currently operates more than 2,000 satellites in its Starlink constellation, and it has approval for thousands more. SpaceX hopes to get approval for 30,000 more satellites, but NASA, which has …

  SpaceX made history recently when it launched a record 143 satellites on a single rocket. Among the plethora of spacecraft were ten new Starlink internet satellites. According to CEO Elon Musk, these are the first nodes in SpaceX’s network that have fully operational laser communication systems, allowing the satellites …

  SpaceX has been launching batches of Starlink internet satellites on a regular basis since May 2019, and there are now hundreds of nodes in its megaconstellation. That provides sufficient coverage that SpaceX has started rolling out a beta test of its new satellite internet service. According to data from …

Earth Imaging Satellites Will Hitch a Ride on Upcoming SpaceX Starlink Launches Satellite imaging startup Planet closed a deal to buy Google’s SkySat network in 2017, but it’s not stopping with the existing constellation. Planet aims to become the fastest satellite imaging firm thanks to a new deal with SpaceX. …

60 More Starlink Satellites SpaceX is fresh of its historic crewed launch that sent astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS), but it’s not taking any time off to celebrate. The company has just launched yet another batch of Starlink internet satellites, and it did …