The SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California, about 15 miles south-west of downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Tom Perkins, Published by The Guardian, 25 October 2026 This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the
The Starlink system plays a significant role in Ukraine's defense By Erin Banco and Joey Roulette, ReutersPublished by The Straits Times, 24 October 2026 WASHINGTON – Well before the throttling in October of Ukraine’s military access to Elon Musk’s satellite communications system, the Biden and Trump administrations had several times
The remnants of a supernova, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way, 160,000 light years distant. X-RAY: NASA/ESA/CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY/HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE By Nick Dowson, Published by New Internationalist, 1 July 2026 A new space race between billionaires and global superpowers is set
By Samanth Subramanian, Published by New Republic, 29 June 2026 Space exploration is a rapidly growing industry. But its goal is dominance, not discovery. Two versions of history began when, one fall night in 1957, a two-stage rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and deposited a Soviet satellite called
Satellite streaks, like the ones seen in this composite image, are a subject of increasing concern for astronomers. And SpaceX's plan to launch a million AI data centers in space could make the problem much worse. Image: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images By Tereza Putarova, Published by Space.com,
By Aminu Abdullahi, Published by Tech Republic, 2 March 2026 Elon Musk’s xAI has officially secured a seat at the military’s high table. A Defense official confirmed to Axios that xAI has signed a landmark agreement to integrate its AI model, Grok, into the US military’s most sensitive classified systems.
By Akash Sriram and Joey Roulette, Published by Reuters, 4 February 2026 Summary Space-based data centers face technical, economic and regulatory challenges Blue Origin and Google also explore space-based AI infrastructure SpaceX's structural advantages position it to shape orbital computing market Feb 4 (Reuters) - Seventy-five years ago, the idea
A Starlink satellite-based broadband system in Bakhmut on February 9, 2023. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images Published by France 24, 1 February 2026 Elon Musk said on Saturday that measures taken by his company SpaceX have stopped Russia from using its Starlink internet system. Ukraine previously said that it found
