Starlink

19 May

Elon Musk launches Starlink in Indonesia (Lead)

New Delhi, May 19, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, on Sunday, launched his satellite-based internet service provider Starlink in Indonesia, with the aim to improve access in remote parts of the archipelago. "Honoured to launch @Starlink in Indonesia!" Musk posted on X. The tech billionaire arrived on the Indonesian resort island of Bali by private jet on Sunday morning, before attending the launch ceremony at a community health centre in the provincial capital of Denpasar. Indonesia's Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan met Musk at the airport and said the two would discuss several important collaborations, including…

07 Oct

Amazon launches its first Kuiper satellites to beam affordable Internet

San Francisco, Oct 7, Amazon has successfully launched its first two Kuiper satellites into space, with an aim to beam affordable internet on Earth like Elon Musk’s Starlink. Amazon said that it hit its first major mission milestone “when our mission operations center in Redmond, Washington, confirmed first contact with KuiperSat-2". "This is when the satellite and one of our telemetry, tracking, and control (TT&C) antennas established a telemetry link for the first time,” the company said late on Friday. The Atlas V rocket that carried the Kuiper satellites to space was launched around midnight on Friday. It carried two…