SpaceX's IPO was a gargantuan event by any measure: US$75 billion proceeds raised, over US$2 trillion enterprise value, and an almost US$29 trillion total addressable market to feast on.
"You're going to be able to have Starlink just like you have AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon today. A single account that works both with your home antenna (with free WiFi) and directly on your cell phone.
The signs were already in plain sight that Elon Musk's Starlink was positioning itself to challenge the big three U.S. wireless operators: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
If you use a VPN, you can't even make a restaurant reservation without some site blocking you for using a VPN. What they want to do of course is to force you to turn your VPN off. The end result is the IP address becomes your identity. This is such a
Engineers at MIT have successfully tested a hybrid propulsion system for small satellites that combines the raw punch of chemical rockets with the long-haul efficiency of electric thrusters – and crucially, both run on the same fuel.
Reports claim Musk was able to post on X while inside China - despite the platform being officially banned by the Chinese government - allegedly using a direct Starlink satellite connection designed to keep users connected anywhere on Earth. ????
China's satellite laser downlink shows how a low-power beam from extreme distance could change the race for faster, more resilient space communications.
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The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.
The CEO of the startup building data centers for eventual low Earth orbit deployment told Molly O'Shea of the Sourcery podcast that he expects Elon Musk's SpaceX to hold a "near monopoly on launches" over the next five to ten years, driven by Starshi
China is upgrading its BeiDou satellite navigation system, a domestic alternative to GPS, to expand its global reach and industry use, according to South China Morning Post.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr wrote on X that the agency will vote late this month on an order aimed at "supercharging" internet access...
The next-generation AST Space Mobile Block 2 BlueBirds are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the first generation BlueBird satellites.
Bloomberg cites Iran's ISNA news agency, which says local authorities have arrested dozens of people for selling SpaceX Starlink terminals across 19 provinces.
Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! Surprising developments in the world are happening where new foreign routers (basically all of them) just got banned. I can't understand the reasoning behind this but it's worrying when you look at the futu
We told readers one month ago that, while trillions of dollars are being allocated to the global data center buildout, virtually every Wall Street analyst remains fixated on financing, chip stacks, power, land, water, and other obvious mainstream inp
Talk of space-based data centers has suddenly become a major conversation on Wall Street. One key driver is Elon Musk's merger of SpaceX with his AI venture, xAI, aiming to eventually build "orbital data centers" at scale.
Russian spacecraft have reportedly been intercepting the communications of at least a dozen high-value European satellites, according to EU security officials, in the latest Ukraine-related 'scare' by Moscow.
The application references that this will be a first step to creating a Kardashev 2 civilization. A Kardashev civilization uses all of the energy of the sun. This is about 5 trillion times more than civilization is using now.
John Sneisen (The Economic Truth) comes on the show to discuss Outerr.net, Blink (TryBlink.me), decentralized communication, economic and market conditions, precious metals, world news, etc...