Cape Canaveral, USA – Another Tuesday, another column of fire punching through Florida’s famously humid sky as Elon Musk’s SpaceX hurls 60 more Starlink satellites toward their parking orbit 550 kilometres up. For residents of this swampy slice of the Sunshine State, the spectacle has become as routine as alligator crossings and early-bird specials, yet…
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…
**The Great Satellite Bazaar: How Starlink Became the World’s Most Expensive Escape Route** While the rest of us were busy arguing about whether 5G causes cancer or Bill Gates puts microchips in vaccines, Elon Musk quietly built a celestial internet provider that’s rapidly becoming the digital equivalent of a Swiss bank account—expensive, exclusive, and incredibly…
