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SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9, surpassing 9,000-strong constellation

At 1:55 a.m. EDT June 17, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster B1090 lifted 28 Starlink Group 10-18 satellites from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40 into low Earth orbit, landing on drone ship Just Read the Instructions and raising SpaceX’s Starlink count to 9,003 satellites (around 7,800 currently in operation).

2025-06-17T23:13:52.971303-07:00

Space.com

NASA Indefinitely Delays Axiom-4 Private Astronaut Mission Over ISS Air Leak

2025-06-12T08:52:42.775482-07:00

CNBC

Musk retreats on Dragon decommission threat after spat with Trump

2025-06-05T13:30:00.315979-07:00

Skift

United Debuts Premium-Heavy ‘Elevated’ Interiors on 787-9 with Polaris Studio Upsell

2025-05-13T04:04:47.456294-07:00

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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themoscowtimes.com

Russia Plans First Rassvet Satellite Internet Launch to Challenge Starlink Roscosmos head Dmitry Bakanov said the agency will send 16 Bureau 1440-built Rassvet low-Earth orbit satellites by year-end to offer global broadband connectivity akin to Starlink, marking Russia’s strategic push into the satellite internet market amid rising geopolitical competition.

2025-06-20T07:16:39.811097-07:00

Russia Plans First Rassvet Satellite Internet Launch to Challenge Starlink

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SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9, surpassing 9,000-strong constellation At 1:55 a.m. EDT June 17, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster B1090 lifted 28 Starlink Group 10-18 satellites from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40 into low Earth orbit, landing on drone ship Just Read the Instructions and raising SpaceX’s Starlink count to 9,003 satellites (around 7,800 currently in operation).

2025-06-17T23:13:52.971303-07:00

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9, surpassing 9,000-strong constellation

rcrwireless.com

Slow Uplinks Leave Over 80% of Starlink Users Below Federal Broadband Speeds Despite recent improvements in SpaceX’s Starlink network, uplink speeds remain a critical bottleneck, with fewer than one in five users consistently achieving the FCC’s minimum 25 Mbps down/3 Mbps up broadband standard. The disparity underscores persistent performance gaps in Starlink’s LEO satellite broadband service.

2025-06-17T10:46:08.695236-07:00

Slow Uplinks Leave Over 80% of Starlink Users Below Federal Broadband Speeds

South China Morning Post

China Demonstrates 5× Starlink-Comparable Laser Downlink from GEO Chinese researchers have used a 2 W laser to transmit data from a geostationary satellite to Earth in under five seconds, achieving downlink speeds five times greater than SpaceX’s Starlink. The breakthrough marks a significant advance in optical space-to-ground communications.

2025-06-16T22:07:13.314009-07:00

China Demonstrates 5× Starlink-Comparable Laser Downlink from GEO

thelogic.co

Quebec scraps Starlink subsidies to back fibre-optic broadband Quebec’s government announced it will end provincial subsidies for Starlink and comparable low-Earth orbit internet services, opting instead to accelerate investment in terrestrial fibre-optic networks. The shift underscores a preference for fixed, high-capacity infrastructure over satellite connectivity in rural and underserved areas.

2025-06-13T09:34:47.181406-07:00

Quebec scraps Starlink subsidies to back fibre-optic broadband

Space.com

SpaceX deploys 26 Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg, eyes Direct-to-Cell follow-on On June 12 at 6:54 p.m. PDT, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s SLC-4E carrying 26 Starlink Group 15-6 V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit, confirmed an hour later. SpaceX is set to launch 23 more Starlink spacecraft—including 13 Direct-to-Cell payloads—from Cape Canaveral on June 13.

2025-06-12T19:11:08.281518-07:00

SpaceX deploys 26 Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg, eyes Direct-to-Cell follow-on

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NASA Indefinitely Delays Axiom-4 Private Astronaut Mission Over ISS Air Leak NASA and Axiom Space have indefinitely postponed the Ax-4 commercial astronaut flight to the International Space Station after engineers detected a small but persistent air leak in the Russian module, forcing an extended station inspection and repair timeline before clearing the launch.

2025-06-12T08:52:42.775482-07:00

NASA Indefinitely Delays Axiom-4 Private Astronaut Mission Over ISS Air Leak

Financial Times

Europe’s Bid to Merge Airbus, Thales and Leonardo Space Units Stalls Plans to consolidate Airbus, Thales and Leonardo’s satellite and defense operations into a unified European space champion are stalling amid regulatory hurdles, political wrangling and tight deadlines. The merger effort, aimed at countering Elon Musk’s Starlink dominance, faces delays that threaten Europe’s strategic autonomy in space services.

2025-06-11T21:07:46.474300-07:00

Europe’s Bid to Merge Airbus, Thales and Leonardo Space Units Stalls

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