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Starlink Internet Warns High Demand is Pushing Orders Back to 2023
I have made very little secret of the fact that I’m a huge supporter of Starlink. For those of you unaware of what it is, this is a brand new internet service that is looking to provide total worldwide coverage thanks to the continuing efforts of SpaceX and the thousands…
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Starlink Global Coverage on Track For October
I have never made any secret of the fact that I am a huge supporter of the Starlink project. Utilising satellites to effectively bring affordable and fast internet to everyone around the world certainly sounds like a very worthy pursuit. Albeit, I freely concede that while the availability of the…
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SpaceX Wins Contract to Design NASA Moon Lander
Depending on how good your memory is, or your interest in space travel, I suppose, you may recall that in May 2020, NASA officially awarded contracts to both SpaceX and Amazon’s ‘Blue Origin’ to design the lunar lander that, as the name might have suggested, would take humans back to…
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Starlink Claims it Already has 10,000 Internet Users
While I doubt it’s escaped your attention that Elon Musk’s SpaceX program has been launching various rockets over the last couple of years, you may not be aware that one of their targets has been to put hundreds of new satellites into orbit. Specifically, for the creation of Project Starlink.…
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SpaceX SN8 Starship Explodes in Crash Landing – Video
It should never be forgotten that despite seeing some huge technological leaps in literally just the last few years, space travel is still a very dangerous business. As such, it’s important to remember that as we look to press ahead with the various systems and starships we may one day…
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SpaceX’s Rocket Fueling Practices Pose a Concern for NASA
Even though SpaceX has made great progress when it comes to the reliability of its rockets and the safety of astronauts, it would appear that there are still a few NASA members who doubt the company’s fueling practices. To clarify, we’re talking about Falcon 9 rockets and the fact that…
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SpaceX Gets Ready to Test the Engine That Will Take Us to Mars
Ever since the famed Moon Landing, we’ve been wondering what planet will we be able to visit next, and it definitely looks like Mars is the most likely candidate. Even though setting foot on Mars is definitely not going to be an easy task, it’s good to hear that privately…
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SpaceX Breaks Military Space Launch Monopoly
Up until recently, the monopoly for military space launches was held by Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing, but things changed after Elon Musk’s SpaceX has received an $83 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The contract basically allows SpaceX to launch a GPS satellite in May 2018 from Florida, and it…
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Elon Musk Thinks That We Should Find Another Planet to Call Home
We’ve all seen the latest news about Elon Musk and his big plans for Mars, but a recent blog post signed by Tim Urban named “How (and why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars” does a good job at explaining why Musk thinks that we should find another planet to call home as…
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