Jeff Bezos just scored a huge win: Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit. Now it’s the turn of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is set to launch Starship for the seventh time later Thursday. The two billionaires are locked in a race to dominate the global space industry. Ahead of the most…
Gen. Chance Saltzman, head of the US military’s space operations, warned of China’s threat in orbit. He said he was more worried about China than the risk of Russian nuclear weapons in space. The US is heavily reliant on private companies, such as SpaceX, for its space defense capabilities. Thanks for signing up! Access your…
SpaceX, which owns the world’s fastest-growing satellite broadband network, Starlink, told the regulator that these “antiquated power restrictions” were unfit for “the modern space age”. It went on to charge that the international process governing the rules had been hijacked by an alliance between the operators of older, geostationary systems and “America’s staunchest adversaries”. At…