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SpaceX Commits $2 Billion to xAI, Bolstering Musk’s AI Ecosystem

SpaceX will invest $2 billion in Elon Musk’s xAI startup, providing nearly half of a $5 billion equity round following its merger with X and valuing the combined AI-social media venture at $113 billion; the funding underwrites Grok’s rollout in Starlink support and planned integration into Tesla’s Optimus robots.

2025-07-12T15:35:23.188378-07:00

AeroTime

Qatar Airways Fully Equips Widebody Fleet with Starlink After 777 Retrofit

2025-07-10T02:51:46.279334-07:00

Reuters

Starlink Secures Final Regulatory Nod for Commercial Satellite Internet Service in India

2025-07-09T03:27:08.586195-07:00

Space.com

SpaceX Launches Axiom Mission 4, Sending First Indian, Polish and Hungarian Astronauts to ISS in 40 Years

2025-06-24T23:59:35.425004-07:00

Hype Analysis

Starlink's 2024 Advances: Transforming In-Flight Wi-Fi Connectivity in Aviation

October 17, 2024 - Summary of Starlink's 2024 role in aviation: airlines adopt its high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi, enhancing passenger experience. Read More.

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NASA Faces Operational Risk as Trump-Musk Feud Endangers SpaceX Government Contracts As tensions between President Trump and Elon Musk escalate, threats to cancel SpaceX’s government deals now pose a critical challenge to NASA’s ability to sustain key missions, from crew and cargo resupply to lunar exploration, without Musk’s services.

2025-07-14T06:53:49.810773-07:00

NASA Faces Operational Risk as Trump-Musk Feud Endangers SpaceX Government Contracts

Space.com

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SpaceX Launches Israel’s Dror-1 on Falcon 9 GTO-1 Flight, Preps Crew-11 SpaceX's Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:04 a.m. local time, deploying Israel’s Dror-1 communications satellite on the Commercial GTO-1 mission. Built by Israel Aerospace Industries, Dror-1 will enhance the nation’s space-based network as SpaceX juggles mystery payload launches and readies its Crew-11 flight.

2025-07-12T22:28:27.602165-07:00

SpaceX Launches Israel’s Dror-1 on Falcon 9 GTO-1 Flight, Preps Crew-11

Wall Street Journal

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SpaceX Commits $2 Billion to xAI, Bolstering Musk’s AI Ecosystem SpaceX will invest $2 billion in Elon Musk’s xAI startup, providing nearly half of a $5 billion equity round following its merger with X and valuing the combined AI-social media venture at $113 billion; the funding underwrites Grok’s rollout in Starlink support and planned integration into Tesla’s Optimus robots.

2025-07-12T15:35:23.188378-07:00

SpaceX Commits $2 Billion to xAI, Bolstering Musk’s AI Ecosystem

thesouthafrican.com

South Africa’s EFF brands Starlink a ‘terrorist’ organisation, warns of security threat South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters have designated Elon Musk’s satellite internet venture Starlink a ‘terrorist’ organization, claiming it poses a national security risk. The EFF’s motion seeks to halt spectrum allocations and licensing negotiations, intensifying political opposition to Starlink’s planned deployment in the region.

2025-07-12T07:19:10.047392-07:00

South Africa’s EFF brands Starlink a ‘terrorist’ organisation, warns of security threat

Reuters

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Firefly Aerospace Files for IPO, Reveals $176.9M Cash Hoard Post-Lunar Landing Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, fresh from a historic robotic lunar landing, confidentially filed an S-1 registration for an initial public offering, disclosing $176.9 million in cash and cash equivalents and securing funding runway through at least mid-2026 despite ongoing operational losses.

2025-07-11T14:15:09.399377-07:00

Firefly Aerospace Files for IPO, Reveals $176.9M Cash Hoard Post-Lunar Landing

Bloomberg

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FAA Ramps Up Starlink Trials to Bolster ATC Resilience The US FAA has significantly increased the number of live Starlink terminals under evaluation to integrate SpaceX’s LEO broadband into the national air traffic control network, aiming to shore up communications redundancy after recent ATC outages exposed vulnerabilities in aging infrastructure.

2025-07-10T22:21:58.197261-07:00

FAA Ramps Up Starlink Trials to Bolster ATC Resilience

Space.com

NASA, SpaceX Target July 31 Launch of Crew-11 to ISS NASA and SpaceX are targeting July 31 for the launch of Crew-11, ferrying two U.S. astronauts, a Japanese astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a Crew Dragon to the International Space Station. A temporary docking slot shortage at the ISS is expected to clear next week to accommodate the spacecraft.

2025-07-10T15:25:27.673180-07:00

NASA, SpaceX Target July 31 Launch of Crew-11 to ISS

United Press International

SpaceX to Launch Israel’s Dror-1 Comms Satellite on Falcon 9 Using New GTO-1 Adapter SpaceX is set to deploy Israel Aerospace Industries’ Dror-1 geostationary communications satellite aboard a Falcon 9 later this year, integrating the spacecraft via its new “Commercial GTO-1” payload adapter. Dror-1, built with predominantly Israeli technology, will secure national satellite comms capacity for 15 years.

2025-07-10T12:25:26.060888-07:00

SpaceX to Launch Israel’s Dror-1 Comms Satellite on Falcon 9 Using New GTO-1 Adapter

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