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Amazon launches its first Kuiper satellites into space. The company is ready to launch its first two satellites, KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2, for the Protoflight mission scheduled for October 6. Amazon’s Kuiper project is a response to SpaceX’s Starlink service. The company is currently planning to launch 3,200 satellites over the next six years to create […]
Those who want to connect Starlink satellite Internet can buy used equipment. Before being put back on sale, it underwent a restoration process. What is known According to SpaceX, the restored satellite Internet terminals have been cleaned and tested. The company claims that used equipment operates at the same level of performance as new equipment. […]
On September 24, at 03:38 UTC, a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the SLC-40 launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The carrier sent 22 Starlink v2 mini broadband satellites into low Earth orbit. This was the record 17th flight for the rocket’s first stage: B1060 successfully landed on the Just Read the […]
SpaceX CEO and multibillionaire Elon Musk said that American sanctions against Russia prevented the connection of the Starlink satellite Internet service near the annexed Crimea at the request of the Ukrainian military. This was reported by Business Insider on Wednesday, September 13. “If I had received a request from the president – from the American […]
Despite the fact that the Pentagon ordered “special” terminals for Ukraine, Starlink suffered a massive failure during the attack on Russian ships by surface drones On the night of September 13, around 3 am, Starlink satellite internet service experienced a large-scale failure. According to monitoring services, it started around 02:30 and lasted until 04:30. This […]
On the night of Wednesday, September 13, SpaceX’s Starlink global satellite internet network experienced an unexpected outage. This has affected users in many countries. The communication problems lasted for about an hour, after which the network was restored, but users in the affected regions were left without access to the satellite Internet. According to Channel […]
Member of the US Senate Armed Services Committee Elizabeth Warren is demanding a US Congressional investigation into SpaceX after its founder, multibillionaire Elon Musk, confirmed the disruption of the operation of Ukrainian troops in Crimea using Starlink satellite internet, Bloomberg reported on Monday, September 11. “Congress needs to investigate what exactly happened and whether we […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he did not instruct his employees to shut down the Starlink satellite network off the coast of occupied Crimea. He pointed out that the Starlink network allegedly did not work in that area. Earlier, it was reported that Musk tried to turn off Starlink to prevent an attack by the […]
The Customs Service has reported the detention of a commercial shipment of Starlink satellite terminals that were attempted to be imported into Ukraine under the guise of humanitarian aid. The incident occurred on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border at the Astey customs post. It is noted that during customs and border control, a 36-year-old tourist bus driver […]
SpaceX has launched 22 more Internet satellites. The total number of Starliners in Earth orbit has exceeded five thousand. The American company SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink Internet satellites into low Earth orbit on the night of Sunday, August 27. A Falcon 9 rocket delivered 22 mini-satellites there. Watch Falcon 9 launch 22 @Starlink […]