By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 19 January 2023 Government-focused 'secured satellite network' positions SpaceX to heed the Pentagon's call for commercial allies Now that SpaceX has established itself as a leading provider of U.S. national security launches, it is seeking a bigger share of the defense market with a
By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 16 January 2023 The USSF-67 mission carried a military communications satellite and five smaller payloads to orbit. SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket now has five flights under its belt. A Falcon Heavy launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Sunday (Jan.
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 13 January 2023 WASHINGTON — The new head of the Space Force, Gen. Chance Saltzman, says that the clearest take-away so far from the ongoing war in Ukraine is that space systems are key to winning current and future conflicts. “I’m a history
By Evelyn Janeidy Arevalo, Published by Tesmanian, 7 January 2023 The United Kingdom gave SpaceX approval to build more Starlink Gateways as the government works to provide internet access to countryside communities. SpaceX already has three operational Starlink Gateways in the country, which are ground stations with antennas that connect
By Turner Wright, Published by Cointelegraph, 3 January 2023 The addition to the satellite constellation was part of efforts to make space a “new battleground in the quest for bulletproof cryptography” by expanding computational power. The company behind a crypto-satellite module launched in May has announced that an additional piece
By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 3 January 2023 WASHINGTON — After a record-setting year of launch activity in 2022, SpaceX kicked off the new year Jan. 3 with a Falcon 9 launch of more than 110 smallsats. The Falcon 9 lifted off on the Transporter-6 dedicated smallsat rideshare mission
By Jason Rainbow, Published by SpaceNews, 19 December 2022 TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX could start launching second-generation Starlink satellites in the coming weeks to add more capacity to its increasingly congested broadband network. In Dec. 16 regulatory filings with the Federal Communications Commission, SpaceX said it “anticipates that it will
By Courtney Albon, Published by DefenseNews, 5 December 2022 WASHINGTON — SpaceX is creating a new national security business unit called Starshield that will build on its launch and satellite communications offerings and introduce additional capabilities including Earth observation. The company, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, unveiled Starshield Dec. 2,
