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SpaceX valuation climbs to $180 billion
SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket is launched from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test flight, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. November 18, 2023. Joe Skipper | Reuters The valuation of Elon Musk’s SpaceX hit $180 billion based on an ongoing secondary share sale, CNBC confirmed Wednesday. The company is discussing […]
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Weak yen forces Japan to shrink historic armed service investing program
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (left) rides on a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Type 10 tank in the course of a evaluation at JGSDF Camp Asaka in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2021. Kiyoshi Ota | AFP | Getty Photos A collapse in the yen is forcing Japan to scale again a historic five-yr, 43.5-trillion-yen defense create-up aimed at helping to deter a […]
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Space Force awards $2.5 billion in rocket contracts to SpaceX and ULA for 21 launches
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches on its mission with a classified payload for the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., November 1, 2022. Steve Nesius | Reuters The U.S. Space Force assigned 21 rocket launches to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance, worth about $2.5 billion in total, the military branch told CNBC. […]
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Pentagon awards $1.3 billion in contracts to Northrop Grumman and York for 100 satellites
An artist illustration shows the functions of the Space Development Agency’s satellite constellation. Space Development Agency The Pentagon’s Space Development Agency on Monday announced about $1.3 billion in contracts to York Space and Northrop Grumman to build communications satellites. SDA is having the pair of companies build 100 satellites as part of a network the […]
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ULA targets Christmas Eve for inaugural Vulcan rocket launch, CEO says
United Launch Alliance plans to launch the inaugural flight of its Vulcan rocket on Christmas Eve, CEO Tory Bruno told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan on Tuesday. Bruno, speaking at the CNBC Technology Executive Council Summit, said the target window for Vulcan’s first launch runs from Dec. 24 through Dec. 26. The rocket will lift off from […]
Read MoreHow GlobalFoundries aims to keep on being world’s third-most important semiconductor foundry
In its brief 14-yr historical past, GlobalFoundries has risen to develop into the world’s third-largest chip foundry. Based in upstate New York, GlobalFoundries isn’t really a domestic name for the reason that it can be producing semiconductors that are developed and offered by other firms. But it is really quietly assisting electric power nearly just […]
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Pentagon space arm awards $1.5 billion contract to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for communications satellites
An artist illustration shows the functions of SDA’s satellite constellation. Space Development Agency The Pentagon’s Space Development Agency on Monday awarded $1.5 billion in contracts to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for prototype communications satellites. SDA said the 72 satellites will be for the “Beta” variant of its Tranche 2 Transport Layer constellation, a network […]
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How China is threatening U.S. GPS dominance with Beidou
GPS, or the World-wide Positioning System, is the oldest and most greatly used satellite navigation technique in the globe with 6 billion end users. GPS is owned by the U.S. federal government and operate by the Place Power, an independent armed forces department that’s structured under the U.S. Air Pressure. GPS was initially built as […]
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