18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
.... Yet even that completion schedule may well be optimistic,” write SES. Following suit with further disapproval of SpaceX’s “grandiose ambitions”, OneWeb’s letter of complaint is equally scathing about the company and its practices when it comes...
22 April 2020
SpaceX seeks permission to lower the orbit of all its first-gen Starlink satellites
... proximity to consumers on Earth, this modification will allow SpaceX’s system to provide low-latency broadband to unserved and ...them to deploy their own non-propulsive systems near SpaceX’s orbits. SpaceX played down the response by saying it has “...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
...remaining three performed in such an event, and instead the other three parachutes also failed to open. As of November, SpaceX had announced 13 consecutive successful tests of the redesigned parachutes and a successful ground test of the launch-abort...
22 April 2019
Anomaly during SpaceX test could delay its first crewed flight
...with a similar reassuring message echoing that from SpaceX: "The NASA and SpaceX teams are assessing the anomaly that occurred today ...during a part of the Dragon Super Draco Static Fire Test at SpaceX Landing Zone 1 in Florida. This is why we test. We...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
...addition to the 12,000 already approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). If approved, this would mean that SpaceX's constellation could consist of a mammoth 42,000 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites filling up space above our planet...
11 November 2019
Fourth time rocket reuse for SpaceX mission but concerns still over satellites
...discarded, but with an estimate cost of $6 million, SpaceX has made efforts to reuse this essential part. Even more... negative impact on astronomy. In response to those concerns, SpaceX boss Elon Musk said the company would consider reducing the albedo...
