By Daniel Boffey, Published by The Guardian, 21 September 2023 Sweden is leading in a battle to be the first European space base outside Russia to launch a satellite into orbit First place is “nice but it’s not necessary”, says Stefan Gustafsson, a senior official at the Sweden Space Corporation
By Ella Creamer, Published by The Guardian, 12 September 2023 Walter Isaacson’s book had ‘mistakenly’ said mogul secretly told engineers to turn off Starlink coverage of the Crimean coast The author of a new biography of Elon Musk has admitted that a controversial detail in an online extract of the
From Reuters, Published by ABC, 9 September 2023 Elon Musk says he refused a Ukrainian request to activate his Starlink satellite network in Crimea's port city of Sevastopol to aid an attack on Russia's fleet there, saying he feared complicity in a "major" act of war. The billionaire businessman made
By Julin Borger, Published by The Guardian, 7 September 2023 Biography alleges Musk told engineers to turn off communications network to hobble Ukraine drone attack on Russian warships Elon Musk ordered his Starlink satellite communications network to be turned off near the Crimean coast last year to hobble a Ukrainian
By Gordon Corera, Published by the BBC, 6 September 2023 Ukraine cyber-operators are being deployed on the front lines of the war, duelling close-up with their Russian counterparts in a new kind of high-tech battle. "We have people who are directly involved in combat," says Illia Vitiuk, the head of
By Ronan Farrow, Published by The New Yorker, 28 August 2023 How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and
By Stephen Walker, Published by The Guardian, 26 August 2023 On the ISS, astronauts from Russia and the west share a craft the size of a large family home. So what happened when Moscow started a conflict 250 miles below on Earth? One evening in January 2015, Terry Virts, a
By Matthew Field, Published by The Telegraph, 14 August 2023 Project delays and war in Ukraine have led to a growing dependence on the Tesla billionaire In the tropical heat on the coast of French Guiana sits a 200ft tall rocket. Ariane 6, which was designed to carry forward the
