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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expanding its Starlink satellite technology into military applications with a new business line called Starshield. “While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use,” the company wrote on its website. Few details are available about the intended scope and capabilities of Starshield, and the company hasn’t previously announced tests or work on the technology.   Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expanding its Starlink satellite technology into military applications with a new business line called Starshield. Starshield is likely to further tap the company’s biggest U.S. government customer – the Pentagon – which...

CodeCon 2021 SEPTEMBER 28,2021

KEY POINTS Elon Musk’s SpaceX revealed new details about plans for the next-generation of satellites in its Starlink internet system in federal filings on Wednesday. The company intends to use its massive Starship rocket as the primary vehicle to deliver the spacecraft to orbit. SpaceX says the Gen2 Starlink satellites are heavier and “will be somewhat larger and generate more power than originally” designed. and generate more power than originally” designed. Elon Musk’s SpaceX revealed new details about plans for the next-generation of satellites in its Starlink internet system in federal filings on Wednesday, including that the company intends to use its...

 POINTS Measuring 32 miles long and 13 miles wide, the Isle of Man is a British Crown dependency that sits in the middle of the Irish Sea roughly equidistant from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Starlink already has bases in Buckinghamshire and Cornwall in England, and the Isle of Man base will enable the company to provide blanket internet coverage across Britain.  Starlink’s Isle of Man ground station can be seen on the Starlink.sx website.   Starlink, the space internet service created in 2015 by Elon Musk’s space transportation firm, SpaceX, has set up a “ground station” on a tiny...