President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that Elon Musk’s SpaceX shares for children will be given through Trump Accounts. Musk said earlier today that he would give one of his SpaceX shares to “every kid in America” sometime next year. Musk had thanked Trump Account booster Brad Gerstner for “helping enable this,” and Trump appeared […]
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum in Europe. The four companies announced it on Monday in a joint release. The spectrum is for mobile satellite services (MSS),…
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they’re considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite competition for SpaceX’s Starlink. The four telecom companies say they would handle the ground infrastructure while a separate, unannounced satellite partner provides the satellite constellation: The joint initiative by Deutsche […]
Elon Musk says he plans to give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the US starting next year. With around 72 million children in the US as of July 2025, Musk would be giving away about $10.5 billion worth of shares, according to a report from CNBC. Musk, who runs SpaceX and […]
Spanish launch company PLD Space announced that it has started system-level testing of its Miura 5 orbital rocket and has now built its first three vehicles. Two of the three are qualification units, used for testing, and the third is the first rocket …
Russia’s Cosmos 2612 moved from more than 200 miles to about three miles from ICEYE-X36, a U.S.-owned radar satellite.
White dwarf stars, it turns out, come in a variety of hues. Says one astronomer: “Some of them genuinely surprised me.”
“We lose Starlink and lose the interceptor,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on 17 October, Bloomberg reported. Zelenskyy said speed limits on Starshield, SpaceX’s military satellite network, remained in place across Ukraine. Ukr…
Today, I’m talking with Walter Piecyk, a partner and analyst at LightShed Partners who covers tech, media, and telecom, about SpaceX’s recently announced plan to become a major wireless carrier. Last week, SpaceX agreed to buy a big chunk of low-band spectrum to expand the Starlink network, spectrum that’s been traded around the telecom business […]
Last night, Elon Musk gave the people what they want: a car driving vertically up a multistory ramp, launching off the edge, executing a midair “kickflip” over a lineup of Teslas, and landing via cold-gas thrusters. That’s what the people want, right? “We were promised flying cars,” sure, but isn’t the operative word in that […]