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    SpaceX’s valuation soars to $350bn in employee share deal

    Elon Musk’s space company capitalises on ‘Trump bump’ fuelling investor demand

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on December 5 2024
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
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    Billionaire Trump ally had clashed with Brasília this year over alleged misinformation on X

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  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    SpaceX abandons attempt to catch Starship booster as Trump watches

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    Tesla CEO Elon Musk, right, jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on October 5 during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
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  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
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    Aerospace groups are in talks over tie-up offering satellite manufacturing and space systems

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  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
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    Elon Musk’s SpaceX is pushing to loosen power limits on transmissions in low Earth orbit, a move that some fear could give upstart US operators more power

    An infographic-like image with a rocket launch in the background, surrounded by multiple satellites in orbit. The satellites are arranged in a radial formation, with light beams representing communication signals from satellite dishes on the ground. A pair of red and blue satellites on the right stand out from the rest
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
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    Elon Musk’s Starlink faces legal jeopardy in Brazil after X ban

    Billionaire’s satellite service is considered vital in remote areas but is coming under new scrutiny in Latin American country

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  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
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  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
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    Partial climbdown by billionaire follows freezing of satellite internet group’s finances over fines levied on social media site

    A user of X browses through Brazilian posts on a mobile phone
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
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  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
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    US space agency will not use Boeing spacecraft that ferried crew to International Space Station

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  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
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    US space agency is being ‘conservative’ about whether to use Boeing’s Starliner for return mission

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  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
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    Billionaire entrepreneur labels state law on transgender children as ‘final straw’

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  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
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  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
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    Successful mission boosts Elon Musk’s plans to build a spacecraft able to take humans to Moon and beyond

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
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  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches space but is lost on return to Earth

    World’s most powerful rocket fails in final phase after meeting third test mission’s other objectives

    SpaceX’s Starship rocket is launched in its third test flight
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    Space boom, meet actual boom

  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    Musk to make another break with Delaware by moving SpaceX to Texas

    Billionaire to shift a second business away from the state where his $56bn Tesla pay package was struck down

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket docked at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
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    Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow’s troops ‘systemic’

    A Starlink system to receive internet is positioned on the frontline in Donetsk, Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 9 January, 2024
    Space industry
    European space agency warns ‘no guarantee’ for Ariane in rocket launch market

    Airbus and Safran under pressure as ESA promotes competition to spur Europe’s new space economy

    Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency
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