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    Starlink tested in the Kruger National Park

    Starlink tested in the Kruger National Park MyBroadband tested SpaceX's uncapped satellite broadband service Starlink in the Kruger National Park over the December holidays and found it delivered excellent speeds. The Kruger is South Africa's biggest national park and one of the most...
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    Secretive X-37B space plane launched into orbit by SpaceX

    Secretive X-37B space plane launched into orbit by SpaceX SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket lofted a secretive space plane for the US Space Force on Thursday evening from Florida, the first time the rocket was used to send the Boeing Co.-built experimental spacecraft to orbit. The launch...
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    South Korea sends first spy satellite into orbit using SpaceX rocket

    South Korea sends first spy satellite into orbit using SpaceX rocket One of Elon Musk’s rockets carried a South Korean spy satellite into orbit as the rivalry between the two Koreas expands beyond Earth. A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying Seoul’s first domestically made reconnaissance satellite...
  5. Jan

    SpaceX hiring Starlink growth manager for Sub-Saharan Africa

    SpaceX hiring manager to boost Starlink growth in Africa SpaceX is advertising a position for growth manager of its Starlink Internet service in Sub-Saharan Africa. The role — first reported by Space in Africa — is open for applications on the Greenhouse recruitment website.
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    SpaceX gets approval for second Starship launch

    SpaceX gets approval for second Starship launch SpaceX received approval for the second launch of its groundbreaking Starship rocket, ending an almost seven-month hiatus and inching Elon Musk closer to his goal of sending humans to the moon and beyond. The US Federal Aviation Administration...
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    Astronomer reveals how Starlink satellites are "leaking" radio signals

    Astronomer reveals how Starlink satellites are "leaking" radio signals When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them. Thousands of satellites have...
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    Starlink has reached cash breakeven — Elon Musk

    Starlink has reached cash breakeven — Elon Musk SpaceX’s Starlink service has reached breakeven cash flow, according to chief executive officer Elon Musk, a milestone for the space-based internet provider. Musk disclosed the achievement in a post Thursday on his social media platform, X...
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    Starship environmental review kicks off — next launch could be 4 months away

    Starship environmental review kicks off — next launch could be 4 months away The US Fish and Wildlife Service initiated a formal review of the upgrades SpaceX has made to its Starship launch system, one of the final regulatory steps before flights can resume following its explosive April debut...
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    NASA launches massive spacecraft to asteroid using SpaceX

    NASA launches massive spacecraft to asteroid using SpaceX NASA’s massive Psyche spacecraft launched Friday atop SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket on an unprecedented journey to probe a metal-rich asteroid for insight into Earth’s own rocky core. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, one of the world’s most...
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    Jumia partners with Starlink on African rollout

    Jumia partners with Starlink on African rollout Billionaire Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will partner with e-commerce firm Jumia Technologies AG to expand its satellite broadband services in Africa. Jumia, which counts Pernod Ricard SA and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as...
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    SpaceX settles with employee after stifling free speech

    SpaceX settles with employee after stifling free speech Elon Musk’s SpaceX agreed to settle a claim by the US labour board that the company illegally tried to stifle an employee’s speech with a warning not to discuss job conditions with co-workers. A regional director of the US National Labour...
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    FAA proposes rules for cleaning up space junk

    FAA proposes rules for cleaning up space junk A new proposed rule would require commercial space companies to clean up some of their junk. The US Federal Aviation Administration Wednesday released a proposal to limit the uncontrolled reentry of a launch vehicle’s upper stage — the part of a...
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    SpaceX expanding offices to Europe

    SpaceX expanding offices to Europe SpaceX is set to open an office in Dublin in what would mark the first physical presence of the Elon Musk-founded space company in Europe, the British Sunday Times reported. [Bloomberg]
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    What Starlink must do to launch in SA

    What Starlink must do to launch in SA SpaceX can officially launch Starlink in South Africa without giving up 30% of its company to historically disadvantaged groups (HDGs). That is according to the Internet Service Providers Association of South Africa (ISPA).
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    Feds sue Elon Musk’s SpaceX for allegedly shunning refugees, asylum seekers

    https://nypost.com/2023/08/24/elon-musks-spacex-sued-by-doj-over-asylees-refugees-hiring/
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    Watch out SpaceX — Rocket Lab successfully reuses engine for 1st time

    Watch out SpaceX — Rocket Lab successfully reuses engine for 1st time Rocket Lab USA Inc. successfully re-flew one of its Rutherford rocket engines during an orbital launch on Wednesday, a key step in the small satellite-launch company’s efforts to prove its reusable rocket technology. It was...
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    Musk talked with Putin about Starlink concerns — Report

    Musk talked with Putin about Starlink concerns — Report Elon Musk told Pentagon officials during a call about the satellite-based Internet that SpaceX supplies to Ukraine’s military that he’d spoken personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the New Yorker reported. Musk volunteered the...
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    SpaceX test-fires new Starship booster with water cooling system

    SpaceX test-fires new Starship booster with water cooling system SpaceX fired up the engines on its latest Starship booster Sunday afternoon in Texas, while simultaneously testing a new water deluge system on the vehicle’s launchpad. The ignition test lasted just 2.74 seconds, according to...
  20. Jan

    Malawi gets Starlink - Fifth African country before South Africa

    Fifth African country gets Starlink before South Africa — for R891 per month Malawi recently became the fifth African country to officially support SpaceX's Starlink — while South Africa's estimated rollout for the service has remained "unknown". The fast and uncapped satellite Internet...
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    Chinese startup first to launch methane fuel rocket into orbit

    Chinese startup first to launch methane fuel rocket into orbit A Chinese startup has beaten Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the race to launch a methane-fueled rocket, boosting the nation’s goal of eventually challenging the US as the dominant power in space. LandSpace Technology Corp. successfully...
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