Category: SpaceX

US paid millions to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine

USAID delivered 5,000 Starlink Terminals through a public-private partnership with the SpaceX Photo: Starlink satellites delivered to Ukraine.(Mykhailo Fedorov/Twitter) 09 April 2022 | Daijiworld | With additional information provided San Francisco, Apr 9 (IANS): The US government paid millions of dollars to send Elon Musk-run satellite internet service Starlink terminals to Ukraine, a report has claimed….

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Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch Thousands of Satellites in Internet Space Race

The request to FCC would bring their total sats to 7,774. SpaceX has already launched 1,700 Starlink sats. The move would see a total of 65,000 stats. 06 November 2021 | Staff | MyBroadband Amazon.com Inc.’s Kuiper Systems LLC asked U.S. regulators for permission to launch another 4,538 satellites that would bolster its constellation as…

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Is the billionaire-driven commercialization of space the Internet of the 90s?

Photo:  Jeff Bezos, center, with his brother, Mark Bezos, left, and Wally Funk, an aviator who became the oldest person to travel to space, after their Blue Origin flight on Tuesday in Van Horn, Texas.Credit…Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press With the suborbital flights made by Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson this month, the privatization of the space…

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Blue Origin

The Needy Billionaire Race to Space

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson could fly to space just a bit earlier than Blue Origin and SpaceX’s founders. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images Move over, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk — Richard Branson may be the first of the space firm founders to actually make it to space himself. Blue Origin announced Monday that Bezos, its founder, would fly…

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