STARLINK SATS DODGED OVER 207,000 POTENTIAL COLLISIONS IN 6 MONTHS! SpaceX moved its first- and second-generation Starlink satellites out of harm’s way 207,152 times over six months. The Space Review reported the figure, citing a SpaceX filing with the FCC on July 1. The company orders a maneuver once the calculated probability of a collision reaches 3 in 10 million. That threshold is more than 300 times stricter than the 1-in-10,000 benchmark the same filing describes as the industry norm. Probability isn’t the only trigger: SpaceX also applies a minimum safe separation distance between objects. Maneuvers in the hundreds of thousands are nothing new for the constellation, which has previously logged 355,000 collision-avoidance moves in a single year.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team awarded 1st-ever Neil Armstrong Space Prize! 🔥 Purdue awards the prize to “those whose contributions to space in the preceding decade are deemed the most consequential for humanity,” according to the prize’s website. Falcon 9 was the world’s first reusable rocket — a technical achievement long considered impossible in the industry. The team consisted of Lars Blackmore, senior principal Mars landing engineer; Shana Diez, senior director, Starship reliability; Jon Edwards, senior vice president, Falcon & Dragon projects; Yoshiaki Kuwata, principal GNC engineer; and Eduardo Velazquez, director, Crew Starship engineering.

Another record year of Starlink satellite deployments in the making... — first time SpaceX deployed more than 2,000 sats in the first 8 months of a year — already surpassed 2023 & 2024 totals, now second highest yearly sat deployments with 4 full months and one week to go — year-to-date deployments have reached 63% of 2025's total — 3,255 Starlink sats deployed over past 12 months (more than Amazon's LEO total planned consteĺlation) 🔥 — average monthly deployments of ~271 over past 12 months

Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile said on Thursday they agreed in principle to form a new JV with an aim to address long-time coverage gaps, especially in rural areas, by using satellite-based technologies. This comes as the industry increasingly worries about what Elon Musk’s @Starlink Mobile might do to shake up the terrestrial mobile space. Musk has said he’s not going to put the U.S. terrestrial carriers out of business, but at the same time he’s expanding Starlink and buying up more spectrum...