SpaceX Starlink to offer new ‘top tier’ broadband speeds for $500 per month

SpaceX is launching a new ‘top tier’ for its Starlink satellite broadband customers, offering speeds of up to 500Mbps – but with an eye watering $500/month price tag. The Elon Musk-owned firm began rolling out its internet service to customers last year, and now has approximately 145,000 users in 25 countries worldwide. Its service has been … Read more

SpaceX on target to launch a rocket a week in 2022

Elon Musk-owned SpaceX is on target to launch a rocket a week throughout 2022, including delivering hundreds of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. This would be a remarkable achievement for the space firm, building on 31 launches last year – carrying a combination of private and government payloads.    ‘That’s an incredible pace,’ said Sandra … Read more

SpaceX’s Starlink dish is attracting CATS that crawl on it to warm themselves up

Cats are known to sit on objects to mark their territory with pheromones, but a recent image of five felines huddled on Starlink dish is a more bizarre seating choice. Twitter user Aaron Taylor shared the snap online, noting the cats are using the dish to stay warm. ‘Starlink works great until the cats find … Read more

Chinese citizens slam Elon Musk over claims his Starlink satellites threatened space station

The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2021 in Jiuquan, Gansu Province of China, carried on the Long March-2F rocket, to Chinese Tiangong space station July 19, 1964: China took its first official step into space, launching and recovering an experimental biological rocket carrying white mice. April 24, … Read more

Elon Musk says SpaceX has started construction of a Starship launch pad in Florida

SpaceX’s Starship could soon move to Florida: Elon Musk announces construction of a launch pad for the massive rocket has started at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Elon Musk tweeted Friday that SpaceX has started construction of a Starship launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida The pad would be at Kennedy Space Center launch … Read more

Elon Musk sports wild Mohawk as he touches down in Miami with son

With a personal fortune of close to $300billion at his disposal, the world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk could afford any haircut he desires, and this week the eccentric billionaire opted for a very quirky Mohawk.  The founder and CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX debuted his avant-garde new look when he was photographed landing in … Read more

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins to become first black woman to complete a six-month stay on the ISS

NASA astronaut Dr Jessica Watkins, 33, is poised to become the first black woman to complete a long-term stay on the International Space Station (ISS). Watkins, who was selected as an astronaut in 2017, is the latest member of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission that is scheduled to launch in April 2022 and spend six months … Read more

NASA’s first moon landing since 1972 is DELAYED until 2025 due to costs and Blue Origin litigation

NASA’s first moon landing since 1972 is DELAYED until 2025: Costs and the Blue Origin litigation pushes back Artemis mission that will send the first woman and first person of color to the moon NASA announced changes in the schedule for its Artemis mission  The crewed test flight of Origin and SLS on Artemis II … Read more

Morgan Stanley predicts Elon Musk will become a trillionaire with exponential growth of SpaceX

Elon Musk, who recently supplanted his galactic rival Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest man, will add another bragging right over the Amazon founder as financial experts predict the Tesla boss will become the first trillionaire due to the exponential growth of SpaceX.  In a note titled ‘SpaceX Escape Velocity … Who Can Catch Them?’ … Read more

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule looks like a shooting star as it causes sonic boom as it returned to Earth

A bright light streaked across the night sky over parts of Georgia and Florida last night, which was followed by a sonic boom that rattled homes in the area. Many residents thought it was a shooting star or meteor falling to Earth, but the glowing object was SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on its return mission following … Read more