Tag: Spacex
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SpaceX & T-Mobile To Test Calls From Space in December
T-Mobile might soon make its first phone call from space. SpaceX has asked the Federal Communications Commission for 60 days of “Special Temporary Authority” to launch and test the company’s Gen2 satellites’ ability to connect a regular cellphone call. “Direct-to-cell STA to launch and test its non-geostationary orbit NGSO second generation Gen2 satellites with direct-to-cellular…
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Amazon’s Device Chief Will Reportedly Take Over Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin
Amazon’s head of products and services, Dave Limp, maybe leaving the company, but it won’t be too far from founder Jeff Bezos’s circle. The executive, fresh off of leading the company’s fall event last week, will take over as the CEO of Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket company, according to The Washington Post. He will replace…
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Starlink Added About One Million Customers in the Last Nine Months
On Saturday, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet provider said it now has over 2 million active customers. This milestone means that Starlink gained about a million customers in the last nine months. “Starlink is available on all 7 continents, in over 60 countries and many more markets, connecting 2M+ active customers and counting with high-speed internet,”…
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T-Mobile and SpaceX’s Satellite-Cellular Partnership May Be Grounded For Now
A little more than a year ago, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk came together to unveil a partnership to offer a hybrid service that utilized satellites to boost the coverage and range of cellphones, with a promises of expanding coverage and eliminating dead zones for customers. Fast forward to today, and…
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SpaceX Competitor Rocket Lab Suffers Mission Failure
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket experienced an issue during the launch of the company’s 41st mission, named “We Will Never Desert You.” Two and a half minutes after lift-off, the launch director reported an “anomaly” that resulted in the end of the mission. “We are deeply sorry to our partners Capella Space for the loss of…
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New Portable Mini Starlink Dish Approved By FCC
SpaceX could soon operate two new Starlink dishes after the Federal Communications Commission approved its application on Tuesday, according to a filing spotted earlier by PCMag. The first device is about the size of an Apple MacBook — smaller than SpaceX’s first-generation Starlink dish — and will likely be portable. The second dish builds on…
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Starlink Has 1.5 Million Customers, Far Short of its Goal of 20 Million by 2022
When SpaceX launched Starlink, the company anticipated reaching 20 million users by 2022. However, by the end of last year, the satellite internet provider fell short of that goal, nabbing only 1 million customers. Its current base now stands at 1.5 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Starlink’s revenue last year totaled $1.4 billion,…
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Starlink Reportedly Has 1.5 Million Customers, Far Short of its Goal of 20 Million by 2022
When SpaceX launched Starlink, the company anticipated reaching 20 million users by 2022. However, by the end of last year, the satellite internet provider fell short of that goal, nabbing only 1 million customers. Its current base now stands at 1.5 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Starlink’s revenue last year totaled $1.4 billion,…
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SpaceX’s Starlink is Now Closer to Profitability
For years now, SpaceX’s Starlink internet service has been selling its equipment at a loss. Now though, SpaceX has announced that it has now improved its production so that it can sell Starlink satellite kits without losing money. “We were subsidizing terminals but we’ve been iterating on our terminal production so much that we’re no…
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Telesat Teams Up With SpaceX To Build Satellite Internet Service With Gig Speeds
SpaceX struck a deal with Telesat satellite company on Monday to launch the Telesat Lightspeed constellation into Low Earth Orbit. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 will make 14 launches starting in 2026, delivering 18 Telesat Lightspeed satellites each time, according to the satellite company. Telesat aims to begin providing satellite internet service with gig speeds globally by…