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  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa faces backlash over plan to change law for Musk’s Starlink

    Opposition accuses Pretoria of ‘backroom deal’ over proposal to water down rules on Black ownership

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    SpaceX Starship rocket fails to deploy satellites and explodes on re-entry

    Elon Musk says leaks caused loss of pressure as craft’s upper stage shatters over Indian Ocean

    SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft atop its Super Heavy booster is launched on its ninth test at the company’s launch pad in Starbase, Texas on May 27 2025
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa moves to change empowerment law for Musk’s Starlink

    Potential loosening of Black ownership rules came after billionaire said his satellite internet group would not comply

    The logo of the Starlink satellite-internet communication system
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Has Starlink already won the new space race?

    Elon Musk’s satellite system dominates the battle for the future of global connectivity. Amazon and Chinese rivals are working to catch up

    Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos along with the SpaceX and Amazon logos
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    Telecoms
    Spanish electricity blackout drives use of Musk’s Starlink

    Widespread outage on the Iberian peninsula exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms

    The logo of internet provider Starlink
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Technology sector
    Trump official tells Europe to choose US or Chinese tech

    FCC chair Brendan Carr urges ‘western allies’ to pick Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on April 13 2025
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    Musk’s Starlink in new spat over access to Canada subsidies

    Rival telecoms groups lobby regulator to prevent Musk-owned company from receiving financial support for Far North region

    Logos of Starlink and Bell with Elon Musk against a backdrop of Nunavut, Northern Canada
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    News in-depthSatellites
    Europe’s battle to break Musk’s stranglehold on the skies

    Brussels wants to create a homegrown alternative to Starlink with satellite groups such as Eutelsat

    Montage of Elon Musk, Eutelsat, SES O3b mPOWER satellite and chart
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Are Musk’s ties jeopardising Starlink?

    The satellite internet service is expanding fast but some worry whether Elon Musk is a reliable partner

  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    Starlink’s rapid rollout complicated by Musk ties to Trump

    Satellite internet service is expanding fast but some politicians worry whether the SpaceX owner is a reliable partner

  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Lutnick touts Musk’s Starlink for US broadband scheme

    Commerce secretary urges officials to consider Trump adviser’s satellite connection for rural households

    Starlink satellite antennas
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    #techAsia
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    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    The Baidu logo displayed on a phone screen
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Europe tries to fix its plumbing — and leave Starlink behind

    Many governments outside the US do not want to rely on Elon Musk’s satellite company

    Starlink in Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Space exploration
    Nasa astronauts return to earth after nine months stranded in space

    Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore splash down off coast of Florida

  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    Space exploration
    SpaceX capsule docks to rescue US astronauts stranded on space station

    US pair set to return home on Wednesday after Boeing Starliner problems meant eight-day mission lasted nine months

    The SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying four crew members from the US, Japan and Russia docking at the International Space Station on March 16
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Since Trump’s victory, SpaceX is either up 50% or little changed

    Marks and Recreation

  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    News in-depthBoeing Company
    Stranded astronauts’ rescue mission lays bare Boeing’s struggles in space

    Pair who flew to ISS in group’s Starliner capsule are returning to Earth — but nine months late and in a SpaceX Dragon

    The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Musk gets telecom tycoons’ double backing for Starlink in India

    Country’s two biggest mobile operators drop opposition and sign deals

    The image shows the Starlink logo and the Jio logo
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Musk’s Starlink in tie-up with domestic tycoon to enter India

    SpaceX founder and Sunil Mittal join forces against Mukesh Ambani in satellite battle

    Starlink satellite antennas
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    LexSatellites
    Musk blowback lights a rocket under European space companies Premium content

    Concerns about Starlink speed up an existing trend towards more homegrown European satellite spend

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink internet satellites into space soars across the sky after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    Musk seeks Italian presidential meeting to salvage Starlink deal

    Domestic political opposition to $1.5bn deal for secure communications has mounted amid transatlantic diplomatic tensions

    Giorgia Meloni and Elon Musk in 2023
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    News in-depthElon Musk
    Chinese investors privately take stakes in Musk’s companies

    Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX

    A montage of Elon Musk, China stars, US dollars, logos of xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch

    Second straight incident is setback to Elon Musk’s ambitions to build vessel capable of reaching Mars

    SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship lifts off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    US moves to dismiss SpaceX discrimination lawsuit

    Musk had rejected allegations that rocket maker unlawfully discriminated against asylum seekers and refugees

    Elon Musk wears sunglasses and a black Make America Great Again cap, while gesturing with his thumb under his chin onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Airlines
    Rockets, drones and flying taxis: brace for a ‘Wild West’ in the skies

    Expected surge in flying vehicle traffic and space debris poses critical safety and air traffic control challenges, say aviation experts

    A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 36 from the Kennedy Space Center
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