Starlink, SpaceX and Major Outage
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The partially reusable Neutron rocket is set to debut this year, but the company needs to get its hardware across the shallow waters first.
The Falcon 9 lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 GMT), carrying SES' O3b mPOWER 9 and 10 satellites toward medium Earth orbit (MEO), about 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) above our planet.
A salvage ship was working in Mexican waters southeast of Starbase to pull up parts of a Starship booster that flew in November.
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Despite owning more than half of the satellites currently in low Earth orbit, SpaceX is complaining about AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird constellation and how it’ll introduce added risks.
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The power outage in the Santa Barbara region disrupted telecommunications at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center, creating a “no-go condition for launch,” NASA said.
Although T-Satellite is a T-Mobile service, US users on rival carriers can access the satellite connectivity too for $10 per month. Here's how it works and how to sign up.
SpaceX got to within 15 seconds of a launch from Cape Canaveral on Monday, but a "hold, hold, hold" call from among the mission control team members forced an abort. They were back for another try on Tuesday and pulled it off.
China’s biggest networks have deployed less than 1 percent of their planned satellites, falling far behind SpaceX for dominance in space communications.