Amazon and several other non-geostationary satellite operators have formed a trade association to represent their fast-growing market, with SpaceX notably absent despite having by far the largest NGSO constellation.
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Com mais de 155.000 observações reais de voos, o Starlink Flights identifica quais as companhias aéreas e aeronaves que já têm o serviço de internet via satélite da SpaceX instalado a bordo.
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A CP – Comboios de Portugal lançou um projeto-piloto com tecnologia Starlink num Alfa Pendular, inserindo-se numa vaga global que já transformou a conectividade em dezenas de companhias aéreas e operadores ferroviários europeus.
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Why, in the age of Starlink and Low Earth Orbit satellites, is the British state despoiling the countryside with telegraph poles, asks Joanna Gray. It's 2026 FFS.
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Jio Platforms, which owns India’s largest telco, is looking to lease broadband capacity from satellite constellations to jumpstart its own sovereign LEO network in the country.
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SpaceX reportedly hit out at a European Commission (EC) plan for distributing satellite spectrum across the bloc, warning current proposals could directly impact connectivity with mobile devices.
Bloomberg reported it had seen a statement from Elon Musk’s rocket company which takes aim at an EC plan to offer only a third of its 2GHz frequency band to companies outside the European Union (EU), keeping the remaining amount for those based in the bloc.
The outlet said the proposal effectively excludes foreign companies, like SpaceX, from offering satellite services to governments and will directly impact the expansion of its Starlink connectivity play.
SpaceX has established a presence in Europe, striking partnerships with European operators including Deutsche Telekom and Orange to offer Starlink D2D services to customers.
However, SpaceX said the EC’s plans will split spectrum “in virtually unusable sub-divided parts”.
It apparently added intentions are inconsistent with international regulations and do not adhere to “Europe’s international obligations and economic reality”.
Ukraine concern
Another bone of contention is an EC aim to reserve airwaves for the Europe IRIS2 constellation, with SpaceX arguing this could risk poorer connectivity in Ukraine where Starlink has been used during the country’s war with Russia.
“The proposal creates a significant likelihood that Europeans will be left without direct-to-device satellite services or that new European operations will create global interference problems, including to emergency services like those in Ukraine,” read the statement.
When outlining the plans, EC EVP Henna Virkkunen said earmarking allocations to local operators would encourage diversification of suppliers and incentivise entry into the market.
She also said the 2GHz band was vital for boosting Europe’s competitiveness, security, and fits in with an ongoing drive around technology sovereignty.
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The upper stage from a commercial Chinese rocket that launched last week has broken apart in space, spreading debris in a heavily trafficked part of low-Earth orbit home to the International Space Station and a significant portion of SpaceX's Starlink broadband network.
The breakup occurred shortly after the Zhuque-2E rocket reached orbit on June 9 with two satellites providing direct-to-cell communications, perhaps around the time the upper stage was expected to perform a disposal burn. The US Space Force confirmed the breakup event in a post on space-track.org, a website used by the military to distribute orbit data to the public.
"The tracked pieces are being incorporated into routine conjunction assessment to support spaceflight safety," the Space Force wrote in an advisory. "There are currently no threats to human spaceflight. Analysis is ongoing."
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SpaceX raised $75 billion in an historic initial public offering (IPO), pricing 555.6 million shares at $135 each with trading set to begin later today (12 June) on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
The listing is the biggest of all time, more than doubling the value of Saudi company Aramco’s stock market debut in 2019 which raised around $29 billion.
In a filing, SpaceX stated it has granted underwriters a 30-day option to purchase an additional 83 million shares, which could increase the total fundraising to $86 billion at a $1.78 trillion valuation.
Financial Times reported Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and AI company drew orders more than three times the amount on offer, with demand coming from huge asset managers, gulf sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and retail investors.
According to the outlet, individual investors placed orders for more than $100 billion and will be allocated around 20% to 25% of the total shares sold.
Musk is apparently keen to place smaller shareholders at the centre of SpaceX’s ownership, leaving fewer shares available for big companies and accounts that tend to be prioritised in IPOs.
Through the funds raised, SpaceX is to pump cash into a plan to establish AI data centres in space, a Musk vision that centres on overcoming energy limitations on earth. The company is also plotting new satellite constellations to fuel Starlink, while it will also pay down debt after taking a $20 billion bridging loan in March.
FT added the $1.78 trillion market value makes SpaceX the priciest of the world’s top 10 valuable companies, with its shares trading at 92 times its $19 billion revenue in 2025.
Following SpaceX’s market debut, OpenAI and Anthropic have also announced intentions to also hold a listing.
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A empresa espacial de Elon Musk fixou o preço a 135 dólares por ação, numa avaliação de 1,77 biliões de dólares que "pulveriza" todos os recordes anteriores. As ações da SPCX estreiam-se hoje às 14:30 (hora de Portugal continental) no Nasdaq.
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Counterpoint Research co-founder and research VP Neil Shah warned reports India hit the brakes on licensing SpaceX’s Starlink service could be bad news for the company’s IPO.
In a post on X, the analyst pointed to the scale of the Indian market along with highlighting the connection between revenue generation and investment in space projects.
Shah argued these elements are all at risk if India halts approvals for the launch of commercial Starlink services, in turn putting a “spanner in the wheel” of SpaceX’s pending IPO.
The reported timing of India’s intentions is “really bad”, Shah wrote.
Counterpoint Research’s executive was responding to a Bloomberg article indicated India had put approval processes on ice. Authorities are concerned over reports unlicensed Starlink terminals had been used in Iran, the news outlet stated.
Shah added India’s “highly sensitive, contested borders” are another factor, making the “threat of unmonitored, untraceable satellite terminals operating on its soil” without domestic oversight an “absolute red line”.
Bloomberg noted India’s population is the biggest in the world: Shah put the proportion at 40%.
The news outlet highlighted Lauren Dreyer, VP of Business Operations at Starlink, used X to explain the company “remains in active and productive discussions” with India’s government.
Dreyer branded the speculation “misleading” and “based on unsubstantiated claims from anonymous sources”.
Shah noted the potential licensing fracas indicates sovereignty assurances are emerging as an important requirement for privately-held companies seeking to deliver space-based services in “key economies”, pointing to moves by China and the European Union covering low Earh orbit services as examples.
Bloomberg stated SpaceX is preparing an expected historic listing on 12 June.
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SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data, forming the "backbone" of a rearchitected network after separate Pentagon initiatives stalled, officials announced Tuesday.
Space Systems Command, the Space Force's primary procurement and acquisition center, announced the $2.29 billion firm-fixed-price agreement, confirming long-simmering reports that the Pentagon was likely to tap SpaceX for a new communications network in low-Earth orbit. SpaceX's selection for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone contract "accelerates the delivery of a resilient, high-speed communications network in space," Space Systems Command said in a statement.
The network will be based on technology originally developed for SpaceX's Starlink global Internet constellation. SpaceX already builds and launches specially designed satellites, called Starshield, for military applications. The SDN Backbone network in low-Earth orbit (LEO) will presumably use the Starshield platform.
© US Space Force/Gwendolyn Kurzen
SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data, forming the "backbone" of a rearchitected network after separate Pentagon initiatives stalled, officials announced Tuesday.
Space Systems Command, the Space Force's primary procurement and acquisition center, announced the $2.29 billion firm-fixed-price agreement, confirming long-simmering reports that the Pentagon was likely to tap SpaceX for a new communications network in low-Earth orbit. SpaceX's selection for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone contract "accelerates the delivery of a resilient, high-speed communications network in space," Space Systems Command said in a statement.
The network will be based on technology originally developed for SpaceX's Starlink global Internet constellation. SpaceX already builds and launches specially designed satellites, called Starshield, for military applications. The SDN Backbone network in low-Earth orbit (LEO) will presumably use the Starshield platform.
© US Space Force/Gwendolyn Kurzen
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