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(CNN) — The things that fascinate us most tend to be wonders we have never seen up close. Dinosaur bones have preserved information from millions of years ago, which scientists can use to model what they looked like, the way they moved and how they lived. We'll never see long-extinct...

HARLINGEN, Texas (KVEO) – A local non-profit organization is calling on Cameron County to stop future Highway 4 road closures for SpaceX activities for the rest of the year, saying that they have violated agreements made in 2013 and 2014. Save RGV, a local non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the...

BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on June 17 from Cape Canaveral. Launch window opens at 12:09 p.m. ET and will close at 12:24 p.m. ET. The rocket will launch U.S. Space Force’s fifth third-generation navigation satellite for the Global...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has reiterated plans for Starship to take over Starlink launches, eventually fully replacing Falcon 9’s role in the constellation. Since dedicated Starlink launches began in May 2019, Musk, COO and President Gwynne Shotwell, and a few other SpaceX officials and executives have made it clear that the company would ultimately transition the task of launching and maintaining the Starlink constellation from Falcon 9 to Starship. Barring major surprises, Starship is being designed to be fully and rapidly reusable from the ground up, nominally making the system far cheaper to launch.

The fifth GPS III satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing on June 9 in preparation for its June 17 launch. The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicle 05 satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing at Astrotech Space Operations Florida facility on June 9 in preparation for launch, scheduled for June 17 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Virgin Orbit is developing a system that sends satellites into space using a rocket launched from a jumbo jet. The company completed its first successful mission in January, and later this month it’s aiming to repeat the process in a flight that will deploy seven satellites. And there’s a treat...

While indicating that BTC is here to stay in one form or another, Sygnia’s CEO accused Elon Musk of manipulating the markets for personal benefits. Elon Musk manipulates the financial markets, including the cryptocurrency one, for his own personal gain, alleged the South African billionaire Magda Wierzycka. The founder of Sygnia further blamed the recent BTC volatility on Tesla’s CEO.

A non-profit organization is asking Cameron County to deny SpaceX permission to close access to Boca Chica Beach for the rest of the year. The group Save RGV wrote a letter to Cameron County’s judge and district attorney last week asking them to stop any future closures of the beach and Highway 4 near the company’s launch facility.

SpaceX has plans to use its low-Earth orbit Starlink satellites to offer in-flight WiFi for "several" airlines. Most airlines do already offer in-flight WiFi, usually for a fee, but it's more primitive. There's no timeline for the Starlink airline project yet, but when it does go live, it will significantly...

A UK firm that was the world's first dedicated space technology investor is preparing to list fund shares on the London Stock Exchange. The public will be able to invest in a portfolio of new private space firms through Seraphim Capital's fund. The news comes amid a public consultation on...

The outgoing Amazon CEO's rocket company is auctioning off a seat on the New Shepard’s first crewed space launch this summer

In recent months, people have reported seeing a parade of star-like points passing across the night sky. The formation is not extraterrestrial, or even astrophysical in origin, but is in fact a line of satellites, recently launched by SpaceX, that will eventually be joined by many more to form Starlink, a "megaconstellation" that will wrap around the Earth as a global network designed to beam high-speed internet to users anywhere in the world.

New reports have surfaced that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to offer in-flight Wi-Fi services to aircraft through its Starlink satellite network. Jonathan Hofeller, vice president of Starlink and commercial sales, told reporters the space company was in talks with commercial airlines to adopt Starlink’s internet service, as per Insider.

On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, we’re featuring a replay of the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity panel from our Connected Aviation Intelligence program. The panel we’re featuring is the “The LEO Revolution is Underway in Satellite: What Does it Mean for Airlines?” with guest speakers, Manik...

Unlike conventional in-flight internet providers which have a few satellites orbiting at about 36,000 km above the earth, SpaceX has close to 1,800 satellites orbiting at only 550 km above the earth. SpaceX‘s satellite constellation-based internet network Starlink is exploring the possibility of providing internet connectivity to several airlines. Speaking...

The race to send the first cryptocurrency into space has begun. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitmex will mint a one-of-a-kind physical currency, which will contain one bitcoin at an address yet to be revealed. The coin will be brought to the Moon through Astrobotic Technology, a Pennsylvania-based space robotics company. The mission...