Boeing finally wins the FCC’s go-ahead for broadband satellite constellation
The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Boeing to put 147 satellites in orbit for a broadband internet constellation, adding to… Read More »
Amazon is launching its first internet satellites next year
Amazon is launching its first internet satellites next year. It’ll be around 2,000 satellites behind SpaceX. Amazon already dominates online… Read More »
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites into polar orbit
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites late Monday in heavy fog, firing 51 upgraded relay stations into polar… Read More »
Musk touts Starlink progress as cost and demand hurdles remain
Don Joyce, a Nokia Corp manager working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully… Read More »
Faster inflight Wi-Fi is one small perk of the coronavirus outbreak
Fewer people on board means less competition for bandwidth. And once travel gets back to normal, the future might offer… Read More »
Space industry and travel predictions for 2020
In 2019, the U.S. Space Force was formally established, NASA received a 2024 deadline for returning Americans to the moon,… Read More »
SpaceX launches new round of Starlink satellites
SpaceX took another step toward its worldwide Internet system on Monday (6 January 2020). One of its Falcon-9 rockets launched… Read More »
2020 is the year of the $1 trillion space economy
The first time I can find “space economy” and “trillion dollars” in the same sentence is in 1984, when then-congressman… Read More »