For most of its life Rocket Lab has sold the picks and shovels of the space economy: small rockets, satellite buses, components for other people’s missions. It has now decided that selling the tools is not as valuable as owning the mine. The company agreed to acquire Iridium Communications for about $8bn, paying $54 per […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX and xAI — were merging, and would jointly launch a constellation of 1 million satellites to operate as orbital d [...]
SpaceX’s Starlink is offering customers in Venezuela free access to its internet service after the US captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. According to CNBC, some areas of Caracas an [...]
According to Rolling Stone, employees with the Federal Aviation Administration were told on Friday to “begin finding tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal,” after The Washington Post re [...]
Time to get into the habit of writing "2025" instead of 2024, and the year may have just begun, but the Engadget team is already working hard for CES 2025. This weekend, many from the Engadg [...]