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SpaceX buys a small internet satellite startup called Swarm to complement its Starlink team, in a rare acquisition for Musk's space firm
SpaceX will take control of Swarm's internet satellites and ground station licenses as part of the …
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX got FCC permission to fly Starlink satellites at a lower orbit. Rivals who previously objected, including Amazon, say they're happy with the decision.
SpaceX rivals are pleased with the conditions FCC imposed on SpaceX, such as that Starlink satellit…
Kate Duffy
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Elon Musk just shared the first images of new SpaceX satellites that could change the internet
An announcer said during SpaceX's live webcast that the company couldn't show the deployment of the…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk's SpaceX is close to winning FCC approval to fly more than 4,000 Starlink satellites in a lower orbit. But rivals say it could increase collision risks.
Elon Musk's company SpaceX is seeking regulatory permission to fly over 4,000 satellites at the sam…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX was approved to fly thousands more satellites at a lower orbit despite pushback from competitors
After a near-miss earlier this month, several other startups said Elon Musk's plan would increase t…
Natasha Dailey
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Video: SpaceX successfully launched 60 Starlink satellites into orbit as part of Elon Musk's high-speed internet plan
Although the original plans for Starlink listed just under 12,000 satellites, Space News reported l…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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SpaceX responds to NASA's concerns over Starlink collisions in outer space: 'The reliability of the satellite network is currently higher than 99%'
SpaceX plans to create a megaconstellation of over 42,000 Starlink satellites and released 46 more …
Grace Kay
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Elon Musk accuses Amazon of trying to 'hamstring' SpaceX's Starlink satellite project, but Amazon says SpaceX is trying to 'smother competition'
Musk is in another public spat with Amazon, this time over SpaceX's request to bring Starlink satel…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Elon Musk's SpaceX was the satellite villain of the skies. It's taking a 'money hit' to try and fix the problem.
SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites brighten the night sky enough to interfere with scientific re…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk has a 2027 deadline to surround Earth with high-speed Starlink internet satellites - but the service would work far sooner than that
SpaceX has until April 2024 to deploy half of its 4,400 low-Earth-orbit satellites, and the rest by…
Dave Mosher
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Here's why researchers are worried about Elon Musk wanting to launch another 30,000 satellites
Currently, there only 2,100 active satellites in orbit over the planet. Even if inactive satel…
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SpaceX seems pretty happy with its first 60 Starlink internet satellites, despite losing contact with 3 of the experimental spacecraft
"57 Starlink satellites are communicating with SpaceX's Earth stations using their broadband phased…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX has denied OneWeb's claim that their satellites almost collided - and accused it of deliberately misleading the press
Elon Musk's company SpaceX said it had worked with OneWeb to avoid a satellite collision and that i…
Grace Dean
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SpaceX blasted a GPS satellite into orbit for Space Force — the second it's launched for the US military this year
Nine minutes later after launch, the Falcon 9 rocket booster landed on SpaceX's drone ship "Of Cour…
Kate Duffy
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Elon Musk's SpaceX wins a $149 million Pentagon contract to build missile-tracking satellites
Elon Musk's SpaceX will build four satellites for the Pentagon, fitted with wide-angle infrared mis…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX may want to launch 42,000 internet satellites - about 5 times more spacecraft than humanity has ever flown
That's according to Caleb Henry at Space News, who on Tuesday wrote that SpaceX, founded by tech mo…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk's SpaceX says a geomagnetic storm wiped out 40 of the 49 Starlink satellites it launched into orbit last week
SpaceX said 80% of the satellites it launched Thursday are expected to burn up in the Earth's atmos…
Kate Duffy
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Amazon has filed an FCC protest against SpaceX's plans for more Starlink internet satellites
SpaceX broke the rules by proposing two Starlink satellite configurations instead of one, Amazon's …
Kate Duffy
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Amazon launches partnership with rival SpaceX to send competing satellites into orbit
Amazon and SpaceX have entered into a contract to conduct three Falcon 9 launches to support Amazon…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Space X's ambitious Starlink satellite launch was delayed for a 2nd time to 'triple-check everything' and update software
The launch was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but was delayed for 24 hours because of strong w…