29 Jun 2026
Rakuten-led group set for subsidies to build Japan's answer to Starlink
TelecommunicationGovernment readies $900m in support for homegrown satellite-to-mobile accessA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites lifts off into orbit after launching from Cape Canaveral,...
29 Jun 2026
Rocket Lab Buys Satellite Company Iridium To Go Up Against Starlink And Amazon's Leo
It wants its own satellite internet network. Rocket Lab / Iridium These days, it's not enough to own a company that sends things up into space; you also need to own the things you're sending up.
29 Jun 2026
SpaceX Orbits 7.5-Ton SiriusXM Satellite & 24 Starlinks
Latest Developments SpaceX capped a busy June 28 with back-to-back launches from opposite coasts, demonstrating the company’s sustained cadence across both commercial and constellation programs. First, a Falcon 9 lifted the 15,000-pound SiriusXM SXM-11 satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:25 p.m. EDT, the heaviest commercial comsat SpaceX has flown in recent months. Hours…
28 Jun 2026
SpaceX Just Spent $60 Billion on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Could Elon Musk Be Building the Next Amazon?
In the early days of online shopping, Amazon ( AMZN +2.44% ) was a simple website that sold books. In the years that followed, the company expanded its marketplace into a more comprehensive e-commerce platform. That eventually helped pave the way for the launch of its cloud infrastructure platform, Amazon Web Services ( AWS ). This chain of events quietly turned Amazon into an essential digital…
27 Jun 2026
The SpaceX IPO Put a Spotlight on Starlink -- and on the One Public Company Building a Rival Direct-to-Phone Network
Editorial Commentary — Commercial Space Series SpaceX ' s public listing cast Starlink Mobile as a future wireless challenger. AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS ) is the most prominent publicly traded company pursuing the same direct-to-device satellite-broadband market.
27 Jun 2026
SpaceX Has Landed Data Center Deals With Anthropic, Google, and Reflection That Could Be Worth Over $76 Billion Through 2029. Is That Enough to Justify Its Val…
Many people and investors scoffed at Space Exploration Technologies ( SPCX +0.15% ) and its founder, Elon Musk, when the company sought to raise over $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. That's primarily because the company generated only about $18.7 billion in revenue in 2025, posted a nearly $2.6 billion operating loss, and incurred over $30 billion in capital expenditures in 2025 and the…
26 Jun 2026
SpaceX Wants Its Own Gas Pipeline to Feed All the Starships
Elon Musk’s rocket company is taking one step further in controlling nearly every stage of its supply chain, building its own natural gas infrastructure to fuel upcoming Starship launches.
26 Jun 2026
SpaceX plans weekend rocket launch. Where to see liftoff in CA
Get ready for the eighth and likely final rocket launch of June from California. Here's what to know about the SpaceX mission. The eighth and likely the final rocket launch of June is on deck this weekend in California. SpaceX , which has been behind every liftoff this month from the Vandenberg Space Force Base , plans to get its Falcon 9 rocket off the ground one more time Sunday, June 28. And…
26 Jun 2026
A Blue Origin rocket explosion leaves NASA leaning harder on SpaceX, and the Moon race suddenly has fewer engines to trust
A rocket failure is never just a flash on a launch pad. When Blue Origin’s New Glenn exploded during a May 28 hotfire test at Cape Canaveral, it shook more than Jeff Bezos’ space company. It also exposed how much NASA’s next Moon plans depend on a small number of private contractors, launch pads, and unfinished spacecraft.
