**SpaceX: How a South African Dreamer Turned Earth’s Orbit into the World’s Most Exclusive Parking Lot** From a windswept pad in Texas to the diplomatic salons of Geneva, SpaceX has quietly become the first truly global superpower that doesn’t bother printing its own passports. While the United Nations still argues over commas in climate communiqués,…
Starlink Goes Dark: A Global Panic in 280 Characters or Less By Diego “Still Buffering” Morales, Senior Orbital Correspondent Wednesday, 06:14 UTC—Somewhere above the Indian Ocean, 4,198 toaster-sized satellites decided to take an unscheduled coffee break. Down on Earth, the fallout was immediate and, frankly, theatrical. In the Siberian science city of Akademgorodok, a PhD…
Virgin Territory: How the World’s Last Un-Wi-Fied Corners Became the Final Frontier of Late-Stage Capitalism By our correspondent, still nursing a €7 airport espresso and a grudge Dateline: Everywhere with lousy bandwidth The phrase “virgin media” once conjured missionary-era missionaries, chaste pop stars, or that awkward DVD you hid under the bed. Today it is…
ASTS Stock: When Space Phones Become the New Oil, and the Irony Is Out of This World By Dexter Voss, Senior Orbital Affairs Correspondent It turns out the final frontier isn’t serenity or starlight—it’s a balance sheet. AST SpaceMobile (ticker: ASTS) has spent the past month rocketing up retail watch-lists like a drunk cosmonaut on…
