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May 6, 2021 08:39 EDT Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s (SpaceX) Starlink internet constellation can deliver Internet download and upload speeds that exceed other satellite-based service providers and shows data gathered by Ookla. SpaceX is gradually building its satellite constellation to consist of thousands of satellites. Starlink is the world's first Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to operate thousands of satellites for Internet connectivity. Starlink Delivers Better Internet Speeds Than Incumbent Satellite Internet Providers But Lags Behind Fixed Broadband For Latency Ookla's report, whi...

SpaceX nails the landing in fifth test of its starship rocket Justin Bachman, Bloomberg News MERRIT ISLAND, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - 2021/05/04: People watch as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. , Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Space Exploration Technologies Corp. pulled off a mostly flawless landing of its newest and biggest rocket, as the model’s fifth test flight opened the door to higher altitude excursions. The Starship SN-15 prototype lifted off Wednesday from SpaceXâ...

BusinessWorld May 3, 2021 | 4:42 pm PIXABAY Orbital Exploration Technologies (OrbitX), a space technology startup based in Quezon City, recently joined the LOT Network, an international community of tech companies that shelters members from patent assertion entities (PAEs).  “It was important to our entire team of researchers, scientists, developers, and everyone at OrbitX to join a protective organization like the LOT Network,” said Dexter P. Baño Jr., founder and president of OrbitX, in a press statement. “As a new space tech player — and a pioneering one from the ...

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) yesterday safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station — the first US crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just before 3am, ending the second astronaut flight for billionaire Elon Musk’s company. It was an express trip home, lasting just six-and-a-half hours. The astronauts, three Americans and one Japanese, flew back in the same capsule — named Resilience — in which they launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Cen...

SpaceX Will Build Radar Wind Models for NASA, Mars Rocket Tests May 1, 2021 13:48 EDT Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) plans to generate radar-based wind models for its test facility in Boca Chica, Texas. This reveal comes courtesy of a filing SpaceX made with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Office of Experimental Technologies (OET) last week. The filing outlines the company's plans to "Generate historical wind models at the Boca Chica Range," using a third-party manufacturer's tropospheric radar wind profiler. SpaceX is testing its next-generation launch vehic...