Above the silent void of Earth’s atmosphere, a quiet revolution is unfolding. No longer confined to the terrestrial grid, internet connectivity is ascending to the heavens. SpaceX’s Starlink project has become the most visible—and most debated—attempt to blanket the globe in high-speed broadband from space. What began as a bold engineering dream has matured into…
SpaceX Starlink Expands from Vandenberg: A Strategic Move On a clear Tuesday morning at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, SpaceX successfully launched another batch of Starlink satellites. This marked the 12th mission from the West Coast this year alone, continuing a rapid cadence of orbital deployments. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 6:44…
SpaceX successfully launched another batch of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the evening of October 12, 2023. This mission, designated Starlink Group 7-4, carried 21 second-generation satellites into low Earth orbit, marking another incremental step in the company’s ambitious plan to create a global broadband network. The launch occurred at…
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…
