Tag: broadband
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Falcon 9 rocket arrives on pad 39A for sunrise Starlink launch this weekend
A Falcon 9 rocket rolls out to pad 39A Thursday for the next launch of SpaceX Starlink satellites. Credit: Spaceflight Now SpaceX plans to deploy the next group of Starlink internet relay spacecraft Sunday with a liftoff on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the company’s fourth satellite launch of…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Amazon’s Project Kuiper stir up a war of words over satellites
The rivalry between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is back in the news. (Musk Photo: TED via YouTube; Bezos Photo: GeekWire / Kevin Lisota) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon’s Project Kuiper escalated a different kind of Star Wars today, over the orbital parameters for their rival satellite constellations. Musk complained…
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SpaceX sets new rocket reuse records with successful Starlink launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 8:02 a.m. EST (1302 GMT) Wednesday. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX launched 60 more Starlink satellites Wednesday into a sunny sky over Florida’s Space Coast, adding more capacity and coverage to the company’s commercial broadband network while setting new records for…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s 17th batch of approximately 60 Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission audio”] [tabbyending]
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SpaceX rolls out Falcon 9 rocket for another Starlink mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 10:30 p.m. EST on Jan. 18 (0330 GMT on Jan. 19) with additional launch delay. A Falcon 9 rocket with a sooty first stage booster flown on seven previous launches arrived at the deck of pad 39A Sunday night. Credit: Spaceflight Now SpaceX rolled out a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday night to…
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OneWeb resumes deployment of 650-satellite broadband network
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket takes off Friday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome with 36 OneWeb internet satellites. Credit: Roscosmos The next 36 satellites for OneWeb’s broadband internet network fired into orbit from Russia’s Far East Friday on a Soyuz rocket, giving OneWeb 110 of a planned fleet of 650 spacecraft after the company emerged from bankruptcy earlier…
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Project Kuiper plus AWS: How Amazon’s cloud and satellite internet ventures mesh
Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure, which includes satellite ground stations, could come in handy for supporting Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband constellation. (AWS Photo) Amazon Web Services and the Project Kuiper satellite internet venture may be separate domains of Jeff Bezos’ business empire, but even Amazon’s executives admit there’s a lot of potential for synergy. That’s…
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OneWeb satellites awaiting launch on Soyuz rocket Friday
The next 36 OneWeb satellites were encapsulated inside the Soyuz rocket’s payload fairing before launch Friday. Credit: Roscosmos After a nine-month hiatus caused by bankruptcy, the deployment of OneWeb’s broadband network will resume Friday with the launch of the company’s next 36 satellites on a Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East.…
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper reveals details on customer terminals for satellite internet
A Project Kuiper employee works on antenna hardware. (Amazon / Project Kuiper Photo) Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet said when it’ll start launching satellites or providing broadband internet access from above, but it is sharing details about how customers will get their data. The $10 billion project, which aims to put more than 3,200 satellites…
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network wins $885M in federal aid for rural broadband
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lofts a set of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit on Nov. 24. (SpaceX Photo) SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network — which relies on hundreds of spacecraft built in Redmond, Wash. — has been awarded $885.5 million in federal subsidies to boost high-speed internet service to rural Americans. The awards are part of…