Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth, with up to four burning up in the atmosphere each day, according to space trackers. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told EarthSky that he has recorded “an average of between one to two Starlink satellites deorbiting each day in 2025.” That…
Oct. 7 (UPI) — SpaceX hit a milestone on Tuesday after dozens of new Starlink satellites were launched into orbit in its 130th launch this year. The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX added that its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket saw its 126th flight of 2025 as the Starlink 10-59 mission took off in the early morning hours….
Europe’s space ambitions are at a critical juncture, according to Bernard Liautaud, managing partner at Balderton Capital. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week event, Liautaud warned that the continent risks falling behind in the rapidly expanding space and defence sectors due to an excessive dependence on American companies, particularly Elon Musk’s SpaceX. While European start-ups…
The US Space Force has awarded SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, five of seven critical military launch missions for the upcoming fiscal year, totaling $714 million. The contracts are said to reinforce SpaceX’s dominance in Pentagon space contracts, despite recent public tensions between Musk and President Donald Trump. United Launch Alliance (ULA) secured the remaining…
00:00 Speaker A Well, OpenAI has officially become the world’s most valuable company. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company completed a deal with investors that values the chat GPT maker at around $500 billion. The record valuation for the private company comes just three years after it launched its flagship product. 00:15 Speaker…
Elon Musk‘s business empire is experiencing a significant wave of senior departures across his five companies, as employees cite burnout, strategic disagreements, and concerns about the billionaire’s political activism, according to the Financial Times. Key executives have recently left Tesla and xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence startup. Tesla has seen departures from its US sales team,…
There’s a prevailing message that Hong Kong is, and shall continue to be, a superconnector. But are we connected to new business dialogues about space debris and space commerce? We are not. As old markets and supply chains are disappearing rapidly, and our connectors are retiring at a similar pace with our demographics, where should…
Key Facts: NASA’s Artemis II crew named their Orion capsule “Integrity” [1]; SpaceX launched 28 more Starlink satellites on Sept. 28 (booster B1063’s 28th flight) [2]. Europe’s ESA unveiled plans for a life-hunting mission to Saturn’s moon Enceladus [3] and rolled out “Pulse”, a new control system for all ESA satellites [4]. China on Sept….
This emerging system aims to mass-produce space systems not just quickly but with consistent quality, lower cost and greater flexibility. With global space activity projected to grow exponentially fuelled by new technology and orbital launches reaching 170,000 tonnes of payloads annually by 2045, the country that masters scalable space production will dominate the future, according…
H.E. Abdulla bin Mohammed bin Butti Al Hamed, Chairman of the UAE Media Council and Chairman of BRIDGE, meets Elon Musk, CEO of X, SpaceX, Tesla, and Starlink, at Tesla Headquarters in Palo Alto, California (Photo: AETOSWire) H.E. Abdulla bin Mohammed bin Butti Al Hamed, Chairman of the UAE Media Council and Chairman of BRIDGE,…