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321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (July 21)
SpaceX rocket to launch Amazon broadband satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station In a partnership between rivals, Elon Musk's SpaceX is slated to launch a payload of Jeff Bezos' Amazon broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit during a late-night liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will take flight during a 27-minute launch window that opens at 2:18 a.m. Wednesday, July 16 at Launch Complex 40. Read the full story here. Axiom 4 astronauts depart space station on SpaceX Dragon, prepare for California splashdown A group of private astronauts are journeying home through outer space after spending a little more than two weeks at the International Space Station. The four-person crew of a venture known as Axiom Mission 4 reached the orbital laboratory June 26 after launching on a SpaceX vehicle from Florida. Ahead of the spacefarers, under the command of retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, is a daylong cosmic trip ending with a water landing off the coast of California. Read the full story here. How NASA's upcoming Crew-11 astronauts were impacted by Boeing Starliner incident NASA's next crew heading to the International Space Station is set to arrive in Florida in the coming weeks — and this Crew-11 mission is in more ways than one the follow-up mission to last year's ill-fated Starliner flight test. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kimiya Yui, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov are set to embark on an eight-month mission to the ISS as part of NASA's crew rotation on the orbiting outpost. Read the full story here. SpaceX KF-01 launch recap: Live updates from Amazon mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Wednesday, July 16, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Amazon Project Kuiper KF-01 mission. Read the full story here. Elon Musk's SpaceX will help Amazon launch competitor Kuiper satellites: Here's why Amazon's internet-beaming Kuiper satellites could one day be a formative challenge to the Starlink constellation SpaceX has spent years amassing. So, why is SpaceX, the commercial spaceflight company tech mogul Elon Musk founded in 2002, helping Amazon get the satellites into orbit? Read the full story here. SpaceX launch photos: Falcon 9 deploys Amazon satellites on KF-01 mission from Cape Canaveral Read the full story here. Will Florida's Space Coast surpass 100 annual rocket launches for 1st time this year? Will the annual number of orbital rockets launched from Florida's Space Coast reach triple digits for the first time by year's end? Stay tuned. During 2024, a record-shattering 93 launches took flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's neighboring Kennedy Space Center, easily zooming past the previous record of 72 launches in 2023. Read the full story here. What to know: ULA Vulcan rocket to launch national security mission from Cape Canaveral It's been awhile since Florida has seen a Vulcan rocket launch, but United Launch Alliance is pushing ahead to break that drought. While an official launch date is yet to come, ULA has announced the upcoming USSF-106 mission for the Space Force. The company has also teased photos of the red and white Vulcan rocket in the process of being stacked for launch. Read the full story here. Days after SES, Intelsat merge, SpaceX to launch 2 satellites for company from Cape Canaveral Fresh off completing its $3.1 billion acquisition of competitor Intelsat on Thursday, July 17, European global satellite operator SES is preparing to launch a key pair of satellites atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. SpaceX is targeting Monday, July 21, to deploy SES' ninth and 10th O3B mPOWER satellites from Launch Complex 40. The launch window extends from 5 p.m. to 8:13 p.m., a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory indicates. Read the full story here. New Space Force STARCOM commander returns to Patrick Space Force Base after 11-year absence When U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James Smith and his family packed into their Honda Odyssey van in 2014 and drove north on Interstate 95 to the Pentagon, he didn't think he'd ever get stationed on Florida's Space Coast again. Fast-forward 11 years. Smith has returned — as a Space Force major general. And he'll lead STARCOM as the high-tech field command continues transitioning from Colorado to Patrick Space Force Base, eventually creating a headquarters boasting more than 450 personnel in the next several years. Read the full story here. Florida Tech withdraws from Cape Canaveral rocket-noise study, citing its narrow scope Citing insufficient pricing and scope of research, the Florida Institute of Technology has withdrawn from a partnership with the city of Cape Canaveral to monitor potential impacts of rocket launches on buildings and infrastructure. This $10,019 study, which the Cape Canaveral City Council approved in April, called for Florida Tech to install sensors — including sound level meters, accelerometers and air quality monitors — at a handful of buildings across Cape Canaveral and collect data before, during and after rocket launches. Read the full story here. For the latest news from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, visit Another easy way: Click here to sign up for our weekly Space newsletter. Rick Neale is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at Rneale@ Twitter/X: @RickNeale1 Space is important to us and that's why we're working to bring you top coverage of the industry and Florida launches. Journalism like this takes time and resources. Please support it with a subscription here. This article originally appeared on Florida Today: 321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (July 21) Solve the daily Crossword
CNBC
4 days ago
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Investing in Space: The market's taking off
It's that time of the year again, when CEOs take a deep breath, analysts ready their calculators, investors obsessively refresh stock tickers and every market open's a potential rollercoaster: quarterly earnings. It's a quieter affair in the space sector, where some big names — like Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin — have so far steered clear of going public. There's still a sound swathe of listed heavy hitters that (also) dabble in space activities and are likely to draw the eye, from Boeing and Lockheed Martin to Virgin Galactic. Voyager Technologies only just entered the public arena last month, with shares soaring more than 80% in company's debut trading day after upsizing its initial public offering. And then there's the other new kid set to enter the Nasdaq's block: rocket maker Firefly Aerospace's filed to list and thereafter trade under the "FLY" ticker symbol. It's yet to reveal the number of shares that'll be made available and their price range, but the firm's success in touching its Blue Ghost lunar lander down on the Moon earlier this year is likely to have earned it some attention. The sector's startups kept drawing in funds over the April-June stretch, riding the high of "sustained interest" in defense opportunities and improved market sentiment after a fleeting pause in the U.S.' so-called reciprocal tariffs, according to a report from Seraphim Space covering industry activity in the second quarter. No big surprise on the security-linked gains: from intelligence gathering to imaging, communications and navigation, space is pretty integral to defense operations. It's only stepped further the limelight this year between the U.S.' plans for the Golden Dome missile-intercepting system, Europe's "ReArm" initiative and NATO allies' recent pledge to raise their defense contributions to 5% of their gross domestic product by 2035. Altogether, investment in space startups rallied to $3.1 billion over the April-June stretch, marking the second largest quarter of investments in Seraphim Space's records and a boost from around $2.1 billion over the January-March period. Not unpredictably, U.S. firms absorbed the lion's share of the second-quarter space tech funding at $2.2 billion, or 70%. This means year-to-date investment in U.S. space businesses has already surpassed the total achieved in the whole of 2024 — impressively, despite federal contracts and NASA budget cuts and the volatility triggered by the recent U.S. administration's protectionist trade policies. Just two non-U.S. deals ranked in the second-quarter's top 10 fundraisers — one by German launch services supplier Isar Aerospace in a $174 million Series C round, and another by Chinese positioning service provider Qianxun Spatial Intelligence, which clinched $137-million's worth of Series B funds. U.S. startup Impulse Space meanwhile scored the top deal of the second quarter in a $300-million Series C raise. Overall, venture capital companies remained the most active space investors in recent months, contributing 77% of 2025 funding in the sector to date, compared with the 54% average of 2024, according to Space Capital's separate second-quarter Space IQ report. The company identified especially strong funding momentum for habitats — crewed space stations — as well as for on-orbit servicing and energy generation and storage. Noting 18 acquisitions that took place in the second quarter, Space Capital flagged it expects more than 10 "high-value" deals to close in 2025, for a projected total of $35 billion. And space businesses are also carrying out investment. The talk of the town is a Wall Street Journal report that signals SpaceX has agreed to invest a whopping $2 billion in xAI — the maker of controversial chatbox Grok, which is already believed to be powering the customer support features of SpaceX's satellite network Starlink. The space company's investment in xAI is part of a broader $10 billion debt and equity fundraising effort previously announced by Morgan Stanley, the WSJ said, citing sources. CNBC has reached out to xAI and SpaceX for comment.
Reuters
6 days ago
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What really has gone wrong with global capitalism: podcast
Follow on Apple or Spotify. Listen on the Reuters app. Read the episode transcript. From New York's mayoral race to Jeff Bezos' wedding party, critics of the economic system abound. But few can agree on solutions. In this episode of The Big View podcast, author and investor Ruchir Sharma argues the problem is big government, entrenched companies, and cheap debt. Follow Peter Thal Larsen on Bluesky and LinkedIn. (The host is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) FURTHER READING New York mayoral pick raises symbolic threat to 1% Bezos Venice carnival typifies billionaire burnout Modern capitalism's problem is too much prosperity Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit to opt-out of targeted advertising.
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14-07-2025
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SpaceX rocket to launch Amazon broadband satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
In a partnership between rivals, Elon Musk's SpaceX is slated to launch a payload of Jeff Bezos' Amazon broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit during a late-night liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will take flight during a 1½-hour launch window extending from 2:10 a.m. to 3:38 a.m. Wednesday, July 16, a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency navigational advisory indicates. The Falcon 9 will deploy a batch of Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon's early stage satellite internet constellation, the Space Coast Office of Tourism reported. What's more, this mission represents the first of a three-launch contract. Cape Canaveral: Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, NASA, ULA rocket launch schedule at Cape Canaveral Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch coverage updates will kick off about 90 minutes before the early morning launch window opens. When SpaceX's live webcast begins about five minutes before liftoff, look for it posted below next to our countdown clock. In total, Amazon has more than 80 future launches lined up with SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and Arianespace to create its $10 billion worldwide high-speed internet network, which should someday surpass 3,200 satellites. Amazon officials hope Project Kuiper will eventually compete with SpaceX's well-established Starlink constellation, which has nearly 8,000 satellites in orbit — and more than six million customers. But thus far, Amazon has only launched a combined 54 Project Kuiper satellites during two ULA missions — one on April 28, the second on June 23 — using Atlas V rockets from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Wednesday's SpaceX represents Project Kuiper's third launch of production satellites. On Sunday, July 13, SpaceX marked its 500 Falcon 9 mission by launching the Commercial GTO-1 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The liftoff sent Israel's first national communications satellite, Dror 1, up into orbit. "Built by Israel Aerospace Industries, this $200M 'smartphone in space' will power Israel's strategic and civilian communications for 15 years. A bold leap for Israeli innovation!" Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a tweet. For the latest news from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, visit Another easy way: Click here to sign up for our weekly Space newsletter. Rick Neale is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at Rneale@ Twitter/X: @RickNeale1 Space is important to us and that's why we're working to bring you top coverage of the industry and Florida launches. Journalism like this takes time and resources. Please support it with a subscription here. This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Internet rivals team up: SpaceX to launch Amazon satellites into orbit
The Star
11-07-2025
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Cannes to impose strict limits on cruise ships for sustainability
Cannes will soon cap the number of large cruise ships that are allowed in its harbour everyday. — Pixabay The French Riviera resort of Cannes is imposing what its city council calls 'drastic regulation' on cruise ships, halving the number of very large ships allowed in its harbour and capping the daily number of passenger visits at 6,000 starting next year. The home of the world's premier film festival is joining a growing global backlash against overtourism, which recently saw uproar over Jeff Bezos' and Lauren Sanchez' grand wedding in Venice, Italy, water-gun protests in Spain and a surprise strike at the Louvre Museum in France. 'Less numerous, less big, less polluting and more aesthetic' – that's the aim of Cannes city councillors who voted recently to introduce new limits on cruise ships in its ports. The aim is to ban all ships carrying more than 1,300 people by 2030, city hall said in a statement. Starting next year, a maximum of 6,000 cruise passengers will be allowed to disembark per day, and the number of ships carrying more than 5,000 passengers will be cut by 48% in 2026. Larger ships will be expected to transfer passengers to smaller boats to enter Cannes. France – which drew in some 100 million visitors last year, more than any other European country and more than the country's population – is on the front line of efforts to balance economic benefits of tourism with environmental concerns while managing ever-growing crowds. 'Cannes has become a major cruise ship destination, with real economic benefits. It's not about banning cruise ships, but about regulating, organising, setting guidelines for their navigation,' mayor David Lisnard said in a statement. Cruise operators have called such restrictions damaging for destinations and for passengers. Two cruise ships were scheduled to dock in Cannes recently, each bigger than the upcoming 1,300-passenger limit and with a combined capacity of more than 7,000 people. Their owners did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the new restrictions. The nearby Mediterranean city of Nice announced limits on cruise ships earlier this year, as have some other European cities. – AP
