Qualcomm said on November 4, 2026 that SpaceX picked its Dragonwing Cellular Infrastructure platforms for the ground-based 5G network behind Starlink Mobile, according to CNBC’s report on the deal. The agreement runs multiple years, deployment starts in 2027, and the plan covers tens of…
SpaceX has picked Qualcomm to supply the cellular hardware behind Starlink Mobile, its planned US carrier service. Qualcomm announced on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026 that SpaceX selected Qualcomm Dragonwing Cellular Infrastructure platforms for a nationwide terrestrial 5G network, under a multi-year agreement with…
This analysis separates the confirmed pieces from the estimate and the speculation. It also looks at what the radios and baseband silicon tell us, where the money could go, and what could slow the plan down. If you want the…
Telesat announced its launch agreement with SpaceX on September 11, 2023. The release said the company had contracted 14 launches on Falcon 9 for the Telesat Lightspeed constellation, with each flight able to carry up to 18 satellites. Launches were scheduled to begin in 2026 from…
Ukraine says Starlink and Starshield access has returned to normal after more than a week of disruptions and slowdowns, and DW’s reporting on the episode argues that the outage exposed how heavily the country leans on one satellite network. The…
SpaceX has picked Qualcomm Technologies to supply the radio and baseband hardware for Starlink Mobile’s U.S. terrestrial 5G network, CNBC reported on November 4, 2026. The multi-year agreement covers Qualcomm’s Dragonwing QRU100 radio unit and QDU100 distributed unit. Deployment is planned to begin in 2027 across…
The number is easy to repeat and hard to grasp. In 2025 the FAA recorded 182 licensed launches and 7 licensed reentries. A rate of 10,000 launches per year would multiply that launch count by roughly 55. It would also turn a handful of spaceports…
Light Reading reports that Flight 14 launched on September 28, 2026 and placed 26 Starlink V3 satellites into orbit. Space.com framed it as the first time the megarocket deployed satellites in orbit at all. Earlier Starship flights were test missions, so this one marks…
This analysis walks through the reported figures, adds simple arithmetic where the sources leave gaps (and labels it as ours), and maps the stakes for SpaceX, its rivals and its first outside customers. It sits alongside our earlier look at…
This is a different cut of the story than our earlier piece on the carriers’ fight over the FCC’s wider Starlink Mobile proposal. Here we focus on what the filing says about consumers, what SpaceX actually holds, and what the…
LEO constellations, terminals, ground stations, and global coverage maps.
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