Apple-backed Globalstar signs $64 mn launch pact with SpaceX
Apple is reimbursing Globalstar for 95 per cent of the capital expenditures related to the satellites, including the launch costs, reports TechCrunch, citing regulatory filings.
Apple is reimbursing Globalstar for 95 per cent of the capital expenditures related to the satellites, including the launch costs, reports TechCrunch, citing regulatory filings.
NASA announced that it will partner with seven US companies for its upcoming human spaceflight and the commercial low Earth orbit economy.
SpaceX has called off the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket.
The giant, stainless-steel vehicle will be the most powerful rocket ever to fly, featuring about 2.5 times more thrust at liftoff than NASA's iconic Saturn V, Space.com reported Musk as saying at the conference.
Elon Musk-owned SpaceX has applied to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for a global mobile personal communication by satellite services (GMPCS) license to launch broadband-from-space services in India under its Starlink brand.
"Internet fiber, phone lines, cell towers & other space-based comms in war areas have been destroyed. Starlink is all that's left. For now,"
Hubble has been operating since 1990, about 540 kms above Earth in an orbit that is slowly decaying over time.
As players like Elon Musk's SpaceX, Hughes Communications India (along with ISRO) and Amazon ramp up efforts to provide affordable internet services via low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, the business model and pricing will be a challenge for scaling up networks, according to a new report.
Earlier this month, SpaceX successfully deployed 51 more Starlink satellites in space, completing its 40th mission so far this year.
Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, used as the launch pad for the Falcon 9 rocket
