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Enlarge / The Wentian experimental module and the Long March 5B rocket are seen near its launch site on July 18, 2022.

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Things have been falling out of the sky of late. Fortunately, no one has been hurt, but two recent space debris events offer a good reminder that what goes up often does come down.

This past weekend, a huge Chinese rocket broke apart in the atmosphere above Southeast Asia, with large chunks of the 24-metric-ton booster landing in Indonesia and Malaysia. Some of this debris fell within about 100 meters of a nearby village, but there have been no reported injuries.

The debris came from a Chinese Long March 5B rocketlaunched on July 24 to deliver a module to the country's new Tiangong space station. The large rocket has a core stage and four solid rocket boosters mounted to its side. With the rocket's design, the core stage also acts as the upper stage, delivering its payload into orbit. Because the YF-77 engines cannot restart, the core stage typically reenters the atmosphere about one week after launching when used for low Earth orbit missions.

This sets up an uncontrolled reentry through the atmosphere, and while most of the 30-meter-long rocket breaks up due to heating, significant chunks make it to the surface of the Earth. This time, it looks like much of the debris fell into the Sulu Sea, between the Philippines and Borneo.

China has offered only limited comments on the return of the Long March 5B rocket. However, after the booster's splashdown, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released a statement critical of China for not sharing tracking information about the rocket's return.

"The Peoples Republic of China did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth," Nelson said. "All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property. Doing so is critical to the responsible use of space and to ensure the safety of people here on Earth."

As the Chinese rocket plummeted back to Earth, reports also emerged this weekend of debris found in New South Wales, in the southeastern part of Australia. Three pieces of debris were eventually recovered and linked to the "trunk" of the Crew-1 spacecraft launched by SpaceX in November 2020. One of the pieces was about three meters long, and the debris was said to fall to the ground in the remote area on July 9.

The Dragon trunk provides power to the spacecraft during flight from its solar panelsand also houses unpressurized cargo. The spacecraft sheds the trunk shortly before a deorbit burn, and it then spends about one year in orbit before returning to Earth, finally being dragged down by the upper edge of the atmosphere. SpaceX has not provided specific information about the mass of the trunk, but it is likely 3 to 4 metric tons.

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Teslas profit fell from $18.8 billion in the first quarter and $16.9 billion in the second quarter: report Photo: File

Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who owns Tesla and SpaceX, is preparing to build his own private airport.

According to a foreign media report, Elon Musk plans to build his own airport near Austin in the US state of Texas.

According to sources close to Elon Musk, the report states that no final decision has been made on the required land for the airport, however, according to an estimate, the community hangar of Austins Executive Airport is 130,000 square feet, while Run The land of Way is 6 thousand 25 square feet.

According to the report, construction of the airport is not possible soon as it requires the approval of the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA).

Keep in mind that according to the revenue report released by Tesla, the companys profit has decreased compared to the first quarter of $18.8 billion and Teslas second quarter profit was $16.9 billion.

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Its been nearly a year since satellite Internet-of-Things connectivity provider Swarm was acquired by SpaceX, and Swarm co-founder and CEO Sara Spangelo (now senior director of Satellite Engineering at SpaceX) is ready to talk about what Swarms been up to in that time. SpaceX is not known to be a super acquisitive company, so I was curious to hear about what its been like for Spangelo and for Swarm. Mostly, its been 10 months of rapid acceleration, she says.

One of Swarms biggest blockers in terms of speed of deployment and growing its network was the ability to actually launch its satellites, which themselves are tiny the company says theyre the smallest operational satellites in space, at little more than the size of your average sandwich. Spangelo said that unlocking launch availability has been one of the biggest benefits of operating under the SpaceX umbrella so far.

Access to basically free launch is pretty exciting, she told me in an interview. We actually have launched probably three or four times since we last spoke [Editors note: in June 2021 for our Found podcast], and we now have over 160 satellites in LEO [low-Earth orbit] some of those are experimental.

Those experimental payloads have helped the company improve its overall latency, so now it can guarantee latency at under one hour (meaning a Swarm satellite passes overhead any given point on Earth at least once an hour), which opens up broad new customer categories and applications for its low-bandwidth, hyperefficient connectivity services.

Thats a pretty important threshold, if youre doing any sort of monitoring, whether its floods, water, forest fire detection, agriculture applications, logistics applications thats like a pretty important threshold in that community, Spangelo explained. So being low [latency], that has unlocked a bunch of exciting new use cases and customers.

Swarms tiny satellites have essentially been hitching a ride on SpaceX launches for other customers, where its easy for the company to just pop them on in Spangelos words. Satellite launch tends to be a game of ounces because of weight considerations, but the benefits of being the smallest operational satellites in space mean that you stand a better chance than most of fitting within existing mission payload parameters for SpaceXs Falcon 9 rockets even with other cargo on board.

While access to regular orbital delivery service is incredibly valuable to a technology like Swarms, Spangelo says that its also unlocked a host of other efficiencies that help the previously small startup leap ahead in terms of its maturation and infrastructure.

Weve had access to just more support systems, she said. So legal, accounting, HR, recruiting, logistics, supply chain and production. Thats also helped us accelerate a lot of our production rate, [and] our hiring rate. Weve been scaling up and well probably do 10x the number of devices sold this year vs. what we did last year.

Of course, its a two-way street (it wouldnt make much sense as an acquisition otherwise) and Spangelo says SpaceX is already benefiting plenty, too.

Were also supporting SpaceX in a bunch of ways, from engineering and technology, and regulatory strategies, to lots of other programs that hopefully we get to talk about in the future, she said, reserving details on just what those programs might entail for now. I suggested that some kind of marriage between Starlinks consumer internet service and Swarms connected device offerings might make sense, and she did agree that there are synergies theyre exploring there.

Were definitely having product discussions across the chasm that is Starlink broadband, to Swarm IoT and everything in between, she said. And the roadmap really fills in a lot of the gaps between those things that youre hinting at. Certainly on the enterprise side, weve started to engage with some of the same enterprise customers. You can imagine big agriculture companies, or oil and gas, or maritime companies have need for broadband, as well as for satellite IoT. So weve definitely been able to benefit from those mutual relationships really both ways: Some Swarm customers are interested in Starlink, and vice versa.

With new use cases and new sales relationships, as well as plenty of demand on both sides, Spangelo says both Starlink and Swarm within SpaceX are still growing their teams despite the current macroeconomic conditions, especially when it comes to specific types of talent.

A lot of people dont know that Starlink is actually kind of a networking company, she said. We think of [SpaceX] as a hardware rocket company a bunch of mechanical engineers. But the sophistication of the software, networking algorithms, back ends at the core networks and laser mesh networks, its incredibly complicated. So we have, I think, over 200 software engineers on Starlink, and 500 or so at [SpaceX]. But we are definitely looking for incredible talent there.

As for what Spangelo is excited that Swarm has been able to do, and do better, working as a SpaceX company, she mentioned a number of new use cases that have come online since we last spoke, including wildfire detection. With a max of under one hour of latency, and often results that refresh in minutes, you can change considerably the approach to detection and mitigation of wildfires, which can spread for hours or even days without people knowing when monitored only through traditional methods. Swarm is working with a number of companies there, including Berlin-based Dryad Networks.

Another recent customer, Rainforest Connection, uses Swarms IoT network to connect simple acoustic sensors deployed in the Brazilian rainforest.

Basically, they have just an acoustic sensor, like you have on your phone, and it basically just hears a chainsaw, and then calls in the people that will stop the [deforestation], she said. That one is just so cool to me that such a simple sensor can have like such a big impact, because its so hard to find these things.

As for what the future holds for Swarm, Spangelo says that theyre actually pretty pleased with where the satellite hardware and design is currently, though theyre looking to build more software products for enterprise customers. There are also some products that are more standalone that are actually more appropriate for tracking use cases, and some of the bigger enterprise use cases that dont require the sophisticated integration of their current modem design, she said, something more on brand with Elon Musks out of the box philosophy; something she said has already had influence on the product side.

Meanwhile Swarm continues to operate out of its facility in Mountain View, just a short distance from a nearby SpaceX office, making collaboration relatively simple. The Falcon 9 launch pads are a little farther away, but you cant beat the price for the ride.

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SpaceX is fighting against a possible regulatory change, saying it could cripple the company's Starlink satellite-internet business.

The potential change involves the 12 gigahertz (GHz) frequency band, which SpaceX's Starlink spacecraft and many other satellites use to beam data to the ground.

Early last year, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began thinking about opening the band up for extensive terrestrial use, as The Verge noted (opens in new tab). Dish Network has thrown its hat into this ring, proposing to use the 12 GHz band for its new 5G network.

Related: SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation launches in photos

SpaceX is not happy about this idea, saying that its implementation would harm Starlink and other current 12 GHz users, perhaps irrevocably.

"Essentially, the band would become unusable," David Goldman, senior director of satellite policy at SpaceX, said during a call with reporters on Tuesday (July 26). "It would potentially end services for customers in that band."

SpaceX studies have found that Starlink customers would get interference about 80% of the time if the 12 GHz band were opened up for 5G use, Gold said.

"There is no service that anybody would use where you're getting blocked, you're getting outages, 80% of the time," he said.

Dish and other groups have disputed such numbers, claiming that they're part of a "disinformation campaign" that SpaceX is waging against the 5G plan.

"This tactic, which is commonly used by Elon Musk, is not only disingenuous, but it promulgates an anti-5G narrative that is harmful to American consumers who deserve greater competition, connectivity options and innovation," the 5Gfor12GHz Coalition, which counts Dish as one of its 35 members, said in a statement earlier this month (opens in new tab). "It also stands to threaten America's global leadership in the 5G and technology sector as other countries outpace the nation in delivering next-generation services."

SpaceX has been fighting against the proposed 12 GHz rule change along multiple fronts. It has submitted multiple documents to the FCC laying out the envisioned ramifications, for example. And the company recently emailed Starlink customers "to let them know what was going on and to let them know how they could weigh in with the FCC, if they wanted to," Goldman said.

To date, about 100,000 people have written to the FCC asking them not to allow the rule change, he added. (It's unclear how many of those are Starlink customers, of which there are more than 400,000 in the United States, according to SpaceX.)

SpaceX has launched more than 2,900 Starlink satellites (opens in new tab) to low Earth orbit so far, and the megaconstellation could still grow by leaps and bounds. The company already has approval to launch 12,000 Starlink spacecraft, and it has applied for permission to loft up to 30,000 more as well.

Starlink is an important part of SpaceX's ambitious long-term exploration plans. Musk, the company's founder and CEO, has said that revenue from Starlink will help fund the development of Starship, the next-generation transportation system that SpaceX thinks will allow humanity to settle Mars.

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SpaceX's Starlink will soon have major design changes as part of the independent aerospace agency's efforts to mitigate its satellites' brightness.

Ever since Elon Musk announced that he plans to create a giant artificial constellation consisting of thousands of Starlink cube sats, experts have shared their concerns.

Astronomers, astrologers, and other researchers studying the night sky said that they are worried that the satellites will reflect too much light, preventing them from observing important space objects.

Now, SpaceX announced three solutions it would use to mitigate Starlink's brightness.

According toPC Mag's latest report, the independent space company is now working on several enhancements for its Starlink cube satellites.

(Photo : Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 at the Washington Convention CenterMarch 9, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

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SpaceX shared its exact plans via its official "Brightness Mitigation Best Practices for Satellite Operators" document.

These include the following:

Before the space agency announced its three new brightness mitigation plans, SpaceX had already tried various methods to reduce the reflected light of its Starlink satellites.

One of these is using a sun visor to block the Sun's incoming light. However, this component also affects the laser links of Starlink satellites.

Because of this, SpaceX decided to remove the Starlink sun virus. If you want to learn more about the recent efforts made by SpaceX to lessen Starlink's brightness, you can click thislink.

Recently, experts claimed thatSpaceX Starlinkcould allow the United States to dominate cyberspace.

On the other hand,SpaceX Starlink helped Ukraineusers, allowing hundreds of thousands of residents to have an internet connection.

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People watch from Canaveral National Seashore as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Feb. 3, 2022. The rocket is carrying 49 Starlink internet satellites for a broadband network.

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The global space economy grew last year at the fastest annual rate since 2014, hitting a record of $469 billion, according to a report by the Space Foundation released Wednesday.

Total output by the world's governments and corporationsin the realm of rockets, satellites and moreexpanded by 9% year-over-year, the report says.

While 2022 has seen a slowdown in U.S. markets and the economy, Space Foundation CEO Tom Zelibor told CNBC that the space economy is expected to weather the storm and continue growing this year.

"Maybe it won't be this record-breaking number," Zelibor said, "but the space industry has really shown itself to be pretty resilient." He noted the industry's growth during the height of the Covid pandemic.

"I really don't see a change," he said.

The Space Foundation is a U.S. nonprofit founded in 1983, focused on education and advocacy regarding the industry.

Financial activity in the space economy, such as M&A and private investment, has seen a slowdown in 2022, Zelibor acknowledged, but he emphasized that government and commercial spending remain strong. For example, the report highlighted commercial space's growth to $362 billion last year with space-based products and services such as broadband and GPS generating continued revenue as staples of the modern global economy.

Government spending continues to grow, and Zelibor highlighted that there are "over 90 countries operating in space now."

The United States remains the biggest spender, with its $60 billion total space budget nearly quadruple of the next largest, China. Additionally, India and multiple European countries each increased space spending by 30% or more in 2021, although those countries' budgets remain under $2 billion a year.

Zelibor also emphasized that the first six months of 2022 has seen 75 rocket launches worldwide, matching the record pace set in 1967 by the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the race to the moon. "It's phenomenal," he said.

The report noted that about 90% of the more than 1,000 spacecraft launched this year have been backed by commercial firms most notably the hundreds of Starlink internet satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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Apart from dealing with the legal battles involving his refusal to proceed with Twitters acquisition, Elon Musk will have some extra stress from SpaceX. According to a fresh report, a SpaceX rocked had an accident on its way to the companys factory in Hawthorne, California. The trailer collided with it while passing a bridge with low ground clearance.

SpaceXs operational roadmap shows that the company builds engines and rockets at its Hawthorne plant. Then, it proceeds and sends them to McGregor, Texas, for testing. Once the testing phase is complete, the rocket return to its origin. It can even go to different regions, depending on its purpose.

The Falcon 9 rocket saw itself in the middle of an accident on its way from McGregor To Hawthorne. The rocket hit a bridge on a Texas highway while in transit. In a subsequent blog post, NASA confirmed the accident and confirmed that the rocket was used for the Crew-5 launch mission to the International Space Station in September. NASA says that the damage is not so big. Apparently, it goes from the part between the rocket booster and the spacecraft. SpaceX and NASA have inspected the rocket to make sure other areas are intact.

Worth noting that the SpaceX Crew-5 mission includes NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada. Furthermore, it has Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian Anna Kinika.

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SpaceX and OneWeb say their satellite-internet constellations can coexist.

The companies have written a joint letter to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), declaring harmony in low Earth orbit (LEO) for spectrum coordination between their respective current and next generation broadband constellations.

In the letter, which is dated June 13, SpaceX and OneWeb request that the FCC disregard previously filed dissenting comments regarding spectrum coordination in LEO. SpaceX and OneWeb both submitted proposals for their first-generation internet constellations to the FCC in 2016, followed by a second round of proposals in 2020 for each company's next-generation broadband satellites. Simultaneously, both SpaceX and OneWeb submitted complaints with the FCC in an attempt to get a leg up on each other. Now, it seems the companies are operating on friendlier terms.

Related: SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation launches in photos

To date, SpaceX has launched more than 2,700 of its Starlink satellites to LEO and has received FCC approval to bring that number up to 12,000. However, SpaceX's next-generation Starlink constellation, which will feature larger satellites launched by the company's huge Starship vehicle, may eventually harbor up to 30,000 spacecraft.

OneWeb has received similar permissions from the FCC for its plans to build a constellation of 648 broadband satellites and has expressed hopes to eventually bring that number up to 7,000 with upgraded spacecraft versions. The British startup has launched over half of its first-generation satellites, but that progress slowed earlier this year due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

OneWeb had been launching its satellites aboard Russian-built Soyuz rockets. However, that partnership dissolved in the wake of the invasion, leaving OneWeb without a launch provider.

In response, OneWeb turned to SpaceX, a competitor in the satellite internet market. In the first sign of easing tensions between the companies, OneWeb announced in March that it had awarded SpaceX a launch contract to help complete its first-generation constellation. Now, the two companies are taking another cooperative step.

"After extensive good-faith coordination discussions, [SpaceX and OneWeb] are happy to inform the Commission that they agree that their respective first-round systems can efficiently coexist with each other, and that their respective second-round systems can also efficiently coexist," the companies' joint letter to the FCC reads, in part.

They request that the regulatory commission "negate all prior-filed comments by either party against SpaceX's and OneWeb's 2016 Processing Round and 2020 Processing Round [applications]" And, in light of their newfound harmony, SpaceX and OneWeb request that the FCC "quickly approve each second-round system so that they may begin deploying these cutting-edge systems."

For SpaceX, second-round approval would mean clearing another hurdle toward an operational Starship mission. Starship, the company's massive new spacecraft under development, passed an environmental review by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration earlier this month, putting the vehicle one step closer to an orbital test flight.

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk recently tweeted a video depicting Starship's planned Pez-like deployment of the heftier Starlink 2.0 satellite, which will be too massive for either SpaceX's Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rockets to launch efficiently.

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THE LAUNCH of the first gateway connecting the Philippines with the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) satellite network has been delayed beyond June, with the company yet to firm up the site for its gateway, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.

Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez told reporters on the sidelines of the recently-concluded Manufacturing Summit that the timeline for the Philippine launch of SpaceX, which is controlled by Elon Musk, has slipped beyond the original target, which was sometime within the term of President Rodrigo R. Duterte.

The gateway links the internet service to low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, a network known as Starlink, also operated by SpaceX.

(The first gateway) might not make it (by the end of the Presidential term), Mr. Lopez said, noting that the site and construction plans have not been finalized.

Mr. Lopez could not give an estimate for the SpaceX investment, saying that the company has made no such disclosures.

The DTI had estimated that the first SpaceX gateway will be operational before the end of President Rodrigo R. Dutertes term on June 30.

It added that the entry of SpaceX was accelerated by the passage of the amendments to the Public Service Act (PSA), which relaxed the restrictions on full foreign ownership of telecommunications, shipping, airline, railway, and subway businesses. These industries were previously subject to a 40% foreign equity cap under the 1987 Constitution.

Separately, Mr. Lopez also told reporters that the private sector-led Center for Artificial Intelligence, which took in funding of about $20 million, will be inaugurated by the second half.

For budget reasons, We decided to make this private-sector led. Our partners have just decided to inaugurate the center towards the second half of this year, Mr. Lopez said.

An earlier timeline for the centers launch also slipped because of the impact of the national elections.

This is one center that can help upgrade and push for more innovation, make use of AI tools for enterprises to really upgrade their competitiveness. At the same time, this can create more exposure for our data scientists, those educated in preparation for AI and data science will have a (venue) to excel (for the benefit of) the industry and improved innovation, Mr. Lopez said. Revin Mikhael D. Ochave

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Update: The first of SpaceX's three rocket launches in three days is today. Here's everything to know about the Starlink 4-19 mission.

SpaceX is counting down to what may be a rocket launch hat trick this weekend.

The private spaceflight company aims to launch three rockets from three different launch pads in three days starting on Friday (June 17), when SpaceX will loft 53 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A launch from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base will follow on Saturday morning to orbit a radar satellite for the German military, with the third mission returning to Florida to launch a commercial communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

If successful, the launch triple-play could mark the tightest back-to-back flights by SpaceX yet after the company flew three missions between Jan. 31 and Feb. 3 earlier this year. SpaceX is also aiming to set a new record with one of the flights.

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The Falcon 9 rocket launching on Friday's mission, called Starlink 4-19, will make its 13th flight - the most of any Falcon 9 - when it launches from Pad 39A. Liftoff is set for 12:08 p.m. EDT (1608 GMT). The Falcon 9 first stage has flown nine Starlink missions and four commercial flights, SpaceX said in a mission description (opens in new tab).

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company's latest version of its workhorse, Falcon 9, the Block 5 variant, he said the booster was designed to fly up to 10 flights. According to a June 10 report by Aviation Week (opens in new tab), the company now aims to fly Falcon 9 rockets at least 15 times before retiring them. SpaceX has 21 Falcon rockets in its stable currently, the magazine reported.

Jessica Jensen, SpaceX's vice president of customer operations and integration, told Aviation Week's Irene Klotz (opens in new tab) that Falcon 9 flight components are now tested up to four times their fatigue life for 15 missions.

If Friday's launch goes smoothly, SpaceX will look to its launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to launch SARah 1, a synthetic aperture radar remote sensing satellite for the German military built by Airbus. Liftoff is set for 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on Saturday (June 18).

"SARah is a new operational reconnaissance system consisting of several satellites and a ground segment, which was developed on behalf of the German Bundeswehr," Airbus wrote in a statement (opens in new tab). "As the successor system, it replaces the SAR-Lupe system currently in service and offers significantly enhanced capabilities and system performance."

Once SARah 1 is in orbit, SpaceX's attention will swing back to Florida, where the company hopes to launch the Globalstar FM15 communications satellite for Globalstar, according to Spaceflight Now (opens in new tab). That mission will lift off from SpaceX's pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:30 a.m. EDT (0430 GMT) on Sunday, June 19.

Globalstar FM15 is a spare satellite for Globalstar's messaging and data relay satellite network, Spaceflight Now has reported (opens in new tab).

You'll be able to watch all three of SpaceX's upcoming launches on Space.com at launch time. SpaceX is expected to provide live webcasts beginning about 10 minutes before liftoff.

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