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Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system; the Milky Way. Jupiter is so big that all the other planets in the solar system could fit inside it. More…
The Marscoin Project – MARS Coin
MARS Coin explores leveraging the power of a peer-to-peer, distributed, open cryptocurrency to incentivize space exploration. The Case for Marscoin How Marscoin can help us fund the first settlement in…
FCC cancels Starlink’s $886 million grant from Ajit Pai’s mismanaged auction
FCC: “Nascent” Starlink tech has capacity limits and may not deliver the required speed. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected Starlink’s application to receive $885.51 million in broadband funding,…
Ajit Pai mismanaged $9 billion fund—new FCC boss starts “clean up.”
Starlink and other ISPs may have to give up money that Pai shouldn’t have awarded. The Federal Communications Commission wants SpaceX to give up a portion of the $885.51 million…
Starlink’s “next-generation” user terminal will cost a lot less, Musk says.
Musk expects near-global coverage in August and up to 500,000 users in one year. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company’s Starlink division is trying to cut the price of…
Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit.
Man watered dish to cool it down but overheating knocked it offline for 7 hours. A Starlink beta user in Arizona said he lost Internet service for over seven hours…
SpaceX won “rural” FCC funding in surprising places, like major airports.
A researcher says Starlink and other ISPs took advantage of the broken FCC system. The Federal Communications Commission last week awarded $9.2 billion to 180 broadband providers, saying the money…
SpaceX gets $886 million from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states
Starlink’s charter also wins big; the FCC fund will bring service to 5.2M homes and businesses. SpaceX has been awarded $885.51 million by the Federal Communications Commission to provide Starlink…
Teardown of “Dishy McFlatface,” the SpaceX Starlink user terminal
“It’s rare to see something of this complexity in a consumer product.” Engineer Ken Keiter recently came into possession of one SpaceX Starlink user terminal, the satellite dish that SpaceX…
SpaceX now plans for 5 million Starlink customers in US, up from 1 million.
SpaceX asks FCC for license expansion after 700,000 people register interest. SpaceX has asked the US for permission to deploy up to 5 million user terminals for its Starlink satellite-broadband…