SpaceX, California and Starlink
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SpaceX is again battling states over internet funding, as the company pushes a satellite-first agenda amid a growing need for direct internet connections.
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Boing Boing on MSNSpaceX thinks good internet connectivity is a waste of money
Rather than reliable and fast high-speed access to the internet, Starlink wants the States to buy their already constrained and unscalable service. Starlink operator SpaceX is continuing its fight against state plans to expand fiber broadband availability.
Some hardware can connect to both of the satellite internet services, and a recent Starlink outage took out access to Starshield.
Starlink operator SpaceX is continuing its fight against state plans to expand fiber broadband availability. After saying the Trump administration should deny a Virginia proposal, SpaceX is taking the same approach in a fight against Louisiana.
The good news for spaceflight fans in California? A slew of SpaceX missions to deploy internet-beaming Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit remain on the schedule for the remainder of August from Santa Barbara County. And it could begin with a weekend ...
In 3 test launches this year, 2 exploded prematurely, and a third failed to deploy its test satellites and spun out of control as it returned to Earth. Those failures have led to increasing
SpaceX was not one of Amazon’s original choices to fly up its Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites, but Elon Musk’s company just knocked out its second launch in less than a
Starlink satellites launch weekly from Florida, but what are they exactly? Here's a look at SpaceX's Starlink satellites.
SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 for the first time in 2010. Since then, the two-stage rocket has become the company’s workhorse vehicle, sending satellites to low-Earth orbit, crew and cargo to the International Space Station, and private crewed missions to orbit.
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Axios on MSNElon Musk's SpaceX is beefing with Virginia
Elon Musk's SpaceX is slamming Virginia's final plan for expanding broadband access, which gives the company a small fraction of the millions of dollars it sought to deliver high-speed internet. Why it matters: Virginia is set to receive more than $600 million in federal funding to connect the remaining 133,