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The stock market does not seem to have processed the bad news of competition in the LCT market by SpaceX yet.
I bet they will also launch commercial in-orbit relay services where EO sats offload their data to Starlink by OISLs rather than to ground stations.
$MYNA M0YN Mynaric

Impeccable thread. Public universities should be free. Profs should be weird little freaks that ponder stuff, not gig laborers scraping together a living by teaching at three different schools. This isn’t utopian. College used to be affordable. Most profs used to be tenure-track.

SpaceX planning rapid turnaround for next Starship flight spacenews.com/spacex-plannin… via SpaceNews
'SpaceX hopes to conduct the next launch of its Starship vehicle as soon as early May, a schedule that will depend on how quickly it can get an amended launch license.'

Protests in various places:
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H/T Oscar Visiedo

Protests in various places

FCC approves direct-to-smartphone regulatory framework spacenews.com/fcc-approves-d… via SpaceNews

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Starlink Has Begun Delivering Promised Latency Cuts

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Nathan Owens Oleg Kutkov 🇺🇦 Dave Taht blog.cerowrt.org Megaconstellations 🌍📡🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️ František Borek Joanna Kulesza Tren Griffin Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 Starlink Insider SpaceX Doug Madory Mike Puchol

In 2021, OneWeb (now Eutelsat OneWeb ) CEO Neil Masterson stated the case for and committed to multi-orbit service:
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and
OneWeb signed a multi-orbit agreement with Intelsat the following year.
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Now there are several agreements:…

🚀Our (Joanna Kulesza) latest article explores challenges and opportunities for developing countries in accessing Satellite Broadband. We propose defining terms of equitable access based on UMC principles. Open access to the full article here:authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03…

Update at the end of the post on Civilian Tech Mobilization in #Ukraine️ .

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Oleg Kutkov 🇺🇦 was among the “people embodying the spirit of Ukraine,” chosen by Time Magazine as Person of the Year for 2022.

@ukraine Defense of Ukraine Lew Anno Suport #Ukraine 24/2-22

In a Chinese article on Yuanxin's (aka SSST) $900m funding round from 03-FEB-24, the company claims it 'has the world's top two Ka-band resources, ahead of SpaceX's Starlink'.
They really still claim RivadaSpace's ITU filings?
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Another attack by Russia on the US nytimes.com/2024/03/07/bus…

'SpaceX ... projecting a launch of Starship/Super Heavy vehicle on its third integrated test flight as soon as March 14.'

'SpaceX adds tests to next Starship flight'

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Do well by doing good.

That's fast enough to do most of the things we do. How is latency? What applications have you tested?
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The Communications of the ACM is now open-access.
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'more than six decades of CACM’s renowned research articles, seminal papers, technical reports, commentaries, real-world practice, and news articles are now open to everyone'

Volume 1, Issue 1 was January…

Poland, Sweden, and Germany absolutely blasted by (presumably Russian) GPS jamming in the past day. Again. gpsjam.org/?lat=54.48571&…

China launches first high orbit internet satellite spacenews.com/china-launches… via SpaceNews

China launched the first of a new “high orbit” internet satellite series Thursday, apparently to provide internet services to China and surrounding areas.