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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    The satellite spectrum battle that could shape the new space economy

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX is pushing to loosen power limits on transmissions in low Earth orbit, a move that some fear could give upstart US operators more power

    An infographic-like image with a rocket launch in the background, surrounded by multiple satellites in orbit. The satellites are arranged in a radial formation, with light beams representing communication signals from satellite dishes on the ground. A pair of red and blue satellites on the right stand out from the rest
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Elon Musk’s Starlink faces legal jeopardy in Brazil after X ban

    Billionaire’s satellite service is considered vital in remote areas but is coming under new scrutiny in Latin American country

    Montage of Elon Musk, Brazil flag, Starlink logo
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Space exploration
    Astronauts complete first private spacewalk

    Polaris Dawn mission boosts prospects for space exploration missions undertaken by commercial crews

    This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    X Corp
    Elon Musk’s Starlink agrees to block X in Brazil

    Partial climbdown by billionaire follows freezing of satellite internet group’s finances over fines levied on social media site

    A user of X browses through Brazilian posts on a mobile phone
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    ExplainerSpace exploration
    How will Nasa return two US astronauts stranded in space?

    Agency turns to Elon Musk’s SpaceX after Boeing’s Starliner meant to take them home suffered technical problems

    Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, center, pose with Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Mike Barratt, left, and Tracy Dyson, aboard the International Space Station’s Quest
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Nasa
    Nasa turns to Musk’s SpaceX to bring stuck astronauts back to Earth

    US space agency will not use Boeing spacecraft that ferried crew to International Space Station

    Nasa administrator Bill Nelson
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Nasa
    Nasa may ask SpaceX to retrieve astronauts stuck at space station

    US space agency is being ‘conservative’ about whether to use Boeing’s Starliner for return mission

    Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Elon Musk
    Musk says he will move SpaceX and X headquarters to Texas from California

    Billionaire entrepreneur labels state law on transgender children as ‘final straw’

    Elon Musk
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Space industry
    Billionaires Mittal and Ambani take on Musk in India’s internet space race

    Bharti Airtel’s joint venture with Eutelsat OneWeb could start operating in June

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral., Florida, in December 2023
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    SpaceX’s Starship completes fourth test flight despite last-minute hitch

    Successful mission boosts Elon Musk’s plans to build a spacecraft able to take humans to Moon and beyond

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Lex PopuliPersonal Finance
    How to invest in the second space race

    Share prices remain at ground level for now

    A Virgin Galactic space flight
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches space but is lost on return to Earth

    World’s most powerful rocket fails in final phase after meeting third test mission’s other objectives

    SpaceX’s Starship rocket is launched in its third test flight
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Space industry
    Are investors prepared for *checks notes* nuclear war in space?

    Space boom, meet actual boom

  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    Musk to make another break with Delaware by moving SpaceX to Texas

    Billionaire to shift a second business away from the state where his $56bn Tesla pay package was struck down

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket docked at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia using Elon Musk’s Starlink on Ukraine front line, says Kyiv

    Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow’s troops ‘systemic’

    A Starlink system to receive internet is positioned on the frontline in Donetsk, Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 9 January, 2024
    Space industry
    European space agency warns ‘no guarantee’ for Ariane in rocket launch market

    Airbus and Safran under pressure as ESA promotes competition to spur Europe’s new space economy

    Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    SpaceX accused of unlawfully sacking workers critical of Elon Musk

    US labour officials says billionaire’s space company violated employees’ right to advocate for better conditions

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
    The new star wars over satellites

    A contest between legacy and new operators is brewing over the use of spectrum

    The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off on a mission carrying satellites
  • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
    Space industry
    Elon Musk’s Starship rocket reaches space for the first time

    Ship and main booster lost minutes into flight after topping 100km atmospheric limit

  • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    Musk’s offer to provide Starlink to Gaza aid groups angers Israel

    Government ministers say Hamas will use satellite network access for ‘terrorist purposes’

    A boy in Gaza tries to use his mobile phone
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Musk gave biographer Ukrainian official’s private messages without permission

    Mykhailo Fedorov says disclosure of exchange about military access to Starlink internet service ‘not pretty’

    Elon Musk and Walter Isaacson on a stage
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
    The coming of age of the global space economy

    Consolidation of the sector looms amid greater competitive pressure

    An Inmarsat GX1-4 satellite in space
  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    Space industry
    Slaying space zombies

    The facts and fiction of final-frontier finance

  • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Musk’s SpaceX wins Pentagon contract for satellite in Ukraine

    The Starlink internet service is vital for Ukraine but the billionaire has expressed concerns about its military use

    Ukrainians use their mobile phones standing near a Starlink satellite-based broadband station in Kherson
  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
    Starship enterprise: the economics of Elon Musk’s bold bet

    Does the satellite industry actually need the enormous capacity that SpaceX has to offer?

    SpaceX’s Starship lifts off from a launchpad near Brownsville, Texas
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