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Elon Musk vowed this week to upend another industry just as he did with cars and rockets -- and once again he's taking on long odds. The world's richest man said he wants to put as many as a million satellites into orbit to form vast, solar-powered data centres in space -- a move to allow expanded use of artificial intelligence and chatbots without triggering blackouts and sending utility bills soaring. To finance that effort, Musk combined SpaceX with his AI business on Monday and plans a big initial public offering of the combined company. "Space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale," Musk wrote on SpaceX's website Monday, adding about his solar ambitions, "It's always sunny in space!" But scientists and industry experts say even Musk, who outsmarted Detroit to turn Tesla into the world's most valuable automaker, faces formidable technical, financial and environmental obstacles. Feeling the heat Capturing the sun's energy from space to run chatbots and other AI tools wou

The Elon Musk-owned company has been given temporary permission to use some radio spectrum to test its systems and meet security requirements

Starlink clears final regulatory hurdle as India's space body IN-SPACe gives nod; firm still needs spectrum allocation, infra setup, and trials before launching satellite internet services

Starlink awaits final authorisation from space regulator IN-SPACe; ground infra and security clearance still pending for India launch

Starlink has received a key licence from the Ministry of Telecommunications, clearing the way for its entry into India's satellite broadband market, expected to launch in the next 12 months

Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday threw his weight behind having more players in satellite internet space, saying the service was needed particularly in the rural and underserved areas of the vast market that is India. The government has already granted licences to firms backed by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal to offer satellite internet services, and Scindia indicated more may be granted if players meet security and regulatory norms. The minister's statement is a positive one for Elon Musk's Starlink that has aspirations to operate in the world's most populous nation. Starlink, which had been vying for an India licence for sometime now, last month signed pacts with Ambani's Reliance Jio and Mittal's Bharti Airtel -- which together control more than 70 per cent of the country's telecom market -- to bring the US satellite internet giant's services to India. Citing the licences granted to Bharti Group-backed Eutelsat OneWeb and Jio Satellite ...

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Starlink operates using satellite internet technology rather than relying on traditional cable-based methods such as fibre optics, which traditional telecom and broadband players use

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Starlink has since 2020 launched more satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO) - an altitude of less than 2,000 km - than all its competitors combined

Medium resolution images, music & audio podcasts should work with the current generation Starlink direct-to-phone constellation.The first users received text messages from T-Mobile

iOS 18.3 supports Starlink satellite network through Apple's partnership with SpaceX and T-Mobile in the US

Current conversations with SpaceX are ongoing and the details of a potential transaction could change depending on interest from insider sellers and buyers

Musk, the world's richest person, is expected to wield significant influence in Washington to secure favorable government treatment for his companies

SpaceX is launching 20 more Starlink satellites into space. The company operates over 6,400 Starlink spacecraft in LEO and out of these, over 250 are DTC satellites

This is not the first loss for Intelsat. Earlier in 2019, the company had lost another Boeing-made satellite, IS-29e

Elon Musk said that the move was to ensure that no one is at risk due to an inability to pay for emergency services. The service would be available subject to approval from country governments

Musk, 53, has directed SpaceX employees to drill into the design and details of a Martian city, according to five people with knowledge of the efforts and documents viewed by NYT

The study warned that SpaceX's Starlink satellites emit significant amounts of aluminium oxide gas, which leads to reactions with chlorine, ultimately destroying ozone molecules

The Starlink company, owned and operated by SpaceX, operates communication services that include broadband internet via satellites and independent of communication centers located on the ground