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Amazon to acquire Globalstar in $90 per share satellite deal

Amazon and Globalstar have reached a definitive merger agreement that will reshape the satellite communications market. Under the terms, Globalstar shareholders will receive either 90 dollars per share in cash or 0.3210 Amazon shares, with cash elections capped at 40 percent of total shares. The deal......

Amazon nears Globalstar acquisition to challenge Starlink dominance

Amazon is preparing to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced within days, signaling a major escalation in its effort to compete in the low Earth orbit internet market dominated by SpaceX’s Starlink. Discussions between the two companies have advanced in recent......

SpaceX valuation debate shifts toward AI peers ahead of record IPO

SpaceX is approaching a potential record-breaking IPO, with investors increasingly valuing the company alongside artificial intelligence infrastructure firms rather than traditional aerospace peers, a shift used to justify a projected $1.75 trillion valuation. According to reports, some institutional......

Spacex begins equipment installation in texas chip facility, targets year-end production

SpaceX has begun installing equipment at its advanced semiconductor packaging facility in Texas, marking a key step toward bringing part of its chip production process in-house, according to sources familiar with the project. The facility, located in Bastrop, is expected to focus on packaging radio......

China's Tianlong-3 rocket fails on maiden flight

China's most powerful privately developed rocket, the Tianlong-3, failed on its maiden flight Friday after suffering an in-flight anomaly, dealing a setback to the country's ambitions to rapidly deploy satellite megaconstellations capable of rivaling SpaceX's Starlink network. The Tianlong-3,......

Russia launches 16 Rassvet satellites to rival SpaceX Starlink network

Russia has taken a step toward building its own satellite internet system, launching 16 low Earth orbit satellites as part of the Rassvet constellation, a state backed project designed to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink network. The satellites were deployed on March 23 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome......

Ukraine’s battlefield gains reshape southern front but diplomacy stalls

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country’s forces have retaken around 300 square kilometres of territory in the south in some of their most significant advances in months, even as efforts to secure a negotiated end to the war remain blocked. In an interview at the presidential headquarters......

US secretly sent 6,000 Starlink terminals to Iran

The Trump administration quietly delivered about 6,000 Starlink satellite internet terminals to Iran following a deadly government crackdown on nationwide protests last month, marking the first time Washington has directly supplied the technology to the country, according to US officials cited by The......

China unveils compact microwave weapon capable of disrupting Starlink

Chinese scientists have developed what they claim is the world's first compact high-power microwave weapon able to emit sustained power strong enough to disrupt low Earth orbit satellites, including SpaceX's Starlink constellation. The device, designated TPG1000Cs and led by Wang Gang at Xi'an's......