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Doosan Ships First 380 MW DGT6-300H S2 Gas Turbine to SpaceXAI
Doosan Enerbility shipped its first 380 MW DGT6-300H S2 gas turbine to SpaceXAI from Changwon on Oct. 6, 2026. Neither…
Starlink Opens Community Hosts Program to Share Short-Term Access
Starlink is recruiting Community Hosts so one kit can sell short internet passes to nearby users. An hour, day, or…
FCC Opens 1,000 MHz of Satellite Spectrum for SpaceX and Others
The FCC’s 30 September 2026 order opens more than 1,000 megahertz in the 12.7 GHz and 42 GHz bands that…
Beeline Kazakhstan opens Starlink Mobile commercial service
Beeline Kazakhstan has opened Starlink Mobile as a commercial service, the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development said on…
SWISS flies its first Starlink aircraft
SWISS flew its first Starlink passenger aircraft on 28 September 2026, Airbus A320neo HB-JDM on LX1852 from Zurich to Thessaloniki.…
Could Starlink Become Earth’s Internet Backbone?
Musk says a majority of Earth’s IP traffic on Starlink is increasingly probable, and napkin math puts that scale at…
SpaceX Wins Starlink Router Beam Patent; Array Self-Cal App Publishes
USPTO granted SpaceX wireless-router beam patent US12738645B2 on 15 September 2026 and published a separate OTA phased-array self-calibration application (not…
Google’s First Orbital AI Chip Test Flies on SpaceX Transporter-18
Google’s Project Suncatcher will fly its first orbital TPU hardware test on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare from SLC-4E around October 1,…
SpaceX Secures FCC International Carrier Authority for Starlink Mobile
On 17 September 2026 the FCC granted SpaceX international Section 214 authority for Starlink Mobile U.S.–foreign traffic — U.S. international-carrier…
Space Force Gives SpaceX Design Latitude on $2.3B Space Data Network
Space Force is giving SpaceX design latitude on the roughly $2.3B Space Data Network, buying coverage, capacity, and throughput floors…
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