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The MoU aims to leverage Starlink’s low Earth orbit satellite technology to restore critical communications when crises and natural disasters damage infrastructure. The agreement was signed the same week SpaceX went public on Nasdaq, marking a formal government commitment to a now publicly traded commercial satellite operator rather than an informal arrangement. Under the agreement,…

Space Exploration Technologies, better known simply as SpaceX, became a publicly traded company on Friday nearly a quarter of a century after it was founded. The company began trading on the NASDAQ exchange in New York City at $135 a share, valuing SpaceX at nearly $1.8 trillion. By the end of the trading day the…

There is a quiet assumption underneath every orbital-datacenter pitch: that once you solve launch, solar, and cooling, the chips will simply be there to buy. We believe this is a bottleneck. The AI boom is already rationed by silicon. Foundry slots, advanced packaging, high-bandwidth memory – all of it is spoken for, years out, by…

The CZ-12B flight was one of three polar missions for the Shanghai SpaceSail company within nearly four days at the start of June. A Chang Zheng 6A launched 18 Qianfan satellites from Taiyuan on June 4, and a Chang Zheng 8 launched 18 more from the Wenchang Space Launch site. Meanwhile, Chinese commercial launch providers…

The arm, which passed 25 years of service in April, demonstrated an elevated motor current in a wrist joint, and arm motion did not occur as expected, NASA officials wrote in a blog post on June 10. Consultation with the Canadian Space Agency, which funds the arm and supports its operations with MDA Space, confirmed…

Viasat confirmed that it won a contract from the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) to build, launch and deliver the first of a proliferated fleet of small, maneuverable GEO satellites under the Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global (PTS-G) program. Viasat announced that its Space and Mission Systems (SMS) team will produce and deliver a…

SpaceX began its first public trading on Nasdaq midday Friday, opening at $150 per share, an 11% increase over the initial IPO price of $135 and enough to push SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s net worth over the $1 trillion mark on paper. Earlier in the day, SpaceX was indicated to open as high as $175…

NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with the routine demands of 40 robotic science missions and the extraordinary surge required by NASA’s Orion space capsule as it flew around the Moon. The…