A startup called Starcloud raised another $250 million this week, valuing it at $2.3 billion, with plans for a constellation of 88,000 satellites. SpaceX has filed for up to a million. The pitch is free cooling and constant sunlight; the problem is everything else.
Read moreRevenue rose 92 percent to $7.8 billion for the quarter, beating expectations by nearly a billion. Starlink's subscribers doubled to 12 million, and the company disclosed AI-related contracts that were not part of its business a year ago.
Read moreThe rocket company raised $75 billion, and its shares rose 19 percent on the first day of trading to close worth about $2.1 trillion — instantly the sixth most valuable public company in America.
Read moreJared Isaacman said he expects China to fly a crewed mission around the moon in 2027 — before the United States returns. China has not publicly announced such a plan.
Read morePlanet's Pelican-4 spacecraft spotted and labeled objects in its own images while still in space, using a small Nvidia processor onboard. It cuts the wait for an answer from hours to minutes.
Read moreA program trained to recognize the faint dimming of a star when a planet crosses in front of it found a planet that astronomers had missed in old telescope data. The star, Kepler-90, now has as many known planets as our own sun.
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