Well, that was fast! TERAFAB already has it's first... infrastructure project installed ... a Starlink Ground Station! What is this. you may ask? A Starlink ground station (or gateway) is a terrestrial facility with multiple satellite dishes that connects SpaceX's LEO satellite constellation. Starbase has one. The Bastrop Starlink factory has one and now TERAFAB has one! Check it out!show more

BREAKING: Venezuela approves Starlink-powered Direct-to-Device testing to support post-earthquake... communications. 🇻🇪 • Venezuela’s telecom regulator, CONATEL, approved a temporary 3-month pilot for Movistar/Telefónica to test Starlink-powered Direct-to-Device connectivity. • The pilot will use SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation. • It is designed to let mobile phones connect directly with satellites. • Testing is focused on La Guaira, one of the earthquake-affected areas. • This will help people stay connected when cell towers, fiber, or ground networks are damaged. Starlink is proving once again that satellite connectivity can become a lifeline when disaster strikes.show more

Starlink is becoming a critical lifeline for earthquake-hit Venezuela.... 🇻🇪 • Venezuela’s telecom regulator, CONATEL, has approved a 3-month Direct-to-Device pilot for Movistar, enabling compatible mobile phones to connect directly to SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. • Movistar Venezuela has activated Starlink-powered satellite SMS for customers in La Guaira, allowing users to send and receive messages even without terrestrial coverage. • Starlink is working to extend the same free emergency connectivity to customers of Digitel and state-owned Movilnet. • Starlink is providing free internet through July 25 for both new and existing customers affected by the devastating earthquakes. • Starlink is rapidly deploying satellite terminals to the hardest-hit areas, helping restore communications where local infrastructure has been damaged. These initiatives are helping families, emergency responders, and communities stay connected when cellular and ground networks are disrupted.show more

SPACEX’S VIETNAM WIN: STARLINK HUB ROLLOUT SpaceX is landing... big in Vietnam with a Starlink hub, starting with a Danang ground station and eyeing a nationwide network! Here’s the straight-up rundown: - Danang Drop: First station hits May or June—boom. - Station Swarm: 10-15 planned across Vietnam—huge. - Tariff Twist: Trump’s tariff bomb looms April 2—fate’s fuzzy. - Elon’s Edge: 5-year test run, 100% ownership—foreign caps busted. SpaceX is sparking a real-deal shift and planting Vietnam on the satellite map! Source: Reutersshow more

Taiwan is getting closer to opening the door to... Starlink 🇹🇼 Lawmakers are advancing legal changes that could allow satellite operators to receive case-by-case exemptions from Taiwan’s local-chairperson and foreign-ownership restrictions The proposal has already passed a legislative committee with support from all three major parties This is not final approval for Starlink yet, but it removes one of the biggest legal barriers standing in the way A major step toward bringing Starlink to Taiwanshow more

Here’s how Starlink next‑generation V3’s laser network works in... space Each Starlink V3 satellite is equipped with six high-capacity space lasers capable of operating at up to 400 Gbps These laser links connect satellites directly to one another, creating a fast, high-bandwidth and resilient mesh network in orbit that can route massive amounts of data around the planet without relying entirely on nearby ground stations That means more network capacity, faster data routing, greater reliability and stronger connectivity across remote and hard-to-reach regions Starlink V3 is not just a more powerful satellite It is a major upgrade to the internet infrastructure being built in spaceshow more

Zimbabwe is the only country in Africa with ONLY... ONE terrestrial television station. Yet it was the first country in Subsaharan Africa to have television together with Nigeria in 1960. 63 years later, it only has that ONE TV station. Thanks to Vene!show more

Falcon 9 has landed. This was the fourth flight... for this first stage vehicle, designated B1075 in SpaceX's fleet. It was the 202nd landing of a Falcon booster overall. The rocket's upper stage has entered orbit with its payload or 47 Starlink satellites.show more

🚀🏖️China launched a rocket sending a new satellite group... to constitute the Chinese Starlink from Hainan Island this afternoon. This coastal rocket launch site is, in my opinion, the most beautiful one in China. Watching launches here has become a very popular tourist attraction.show more

Russia is building a new military base near the... Finnish border - the first one in decades. The facility is being constructed near Petrozavodsk and is expected to house between 4,000 and 6,000 troops. Satellite imagery has already revealed a headquarters building, a drill ground, and around a dozen barracks. In total, more than 50 infrastructure facilities are planned. Analysts suggest that a new motorized rifle brigade - or even a division - could be stationed there. Source: Yleshow more

Italy’s mountain dead zones just got put on notice.... Starlink and Fastweb started Italy’s first Direct-to-Cell trial in the central Apennines. A normal 4G smartphone can connect directly to Starlink satellites outdoors when the ground signal disappears. No bulky satellite phone brick needed. No dramatic rescue device. That is how dead zones start getting embarrassed. Starlink / Writer: Annette, Designer: Jannéshow more

Satellite imagery has emerged showing the oil depot in... Armavir, Krasnodar Krai, which was attacked by the SBU. The images reveal damage to at least one reservoir at the linear production and dispatch station, as well as another previously hit facility that has still not been repaired since the earlier attack.show more

Starlink just launched its first European satellite-to-phone service. Today.... Virgin Media O2 switched on O2 Satellite on February 26. It is the first commercial satellite-to-smartphone data service in the UK and in all of Europe. Powered by Starlink Direct to Cell. What it does: If you're an O2 customer with a Samsung Galaxy S25, your phone automatically connects to Starlink satellites when you move beyond traditional cell coverage. No special hardware. No satellite phone. Your regular smartphone connects directly to space. O2's UK landmass coverage jumped overnight from 89% to 95%. That's new connectivity across an area roughly two-thirds the size of Wales, according to Virgin Media O2. At launch, the service supports text messaging and a limited set of apps including WhatsApp, Google Maps, Facebook Messenger, and X. Standard voice calls are not yet supported. Speeds are estimated around 4Mbps. More devices and apps are expected to follow. 650+ Starlink satellites now support Direct to Cell. SpaceX has signed 11 carrier partnerships to date, with similar services already live in the U.S. through T-Mobile. £3 per month. That's what O2 is charging to keep you connected in places where there was zero signal yesterday. Starlink is becoming the invisible backup layer for phone networks worldwideshow more

Starlink V3 is the kind of upgrade where you... check the numbers twice. It could bring around 100x more total space-based bandwidth. Each V3 satellite is expected to deliver roughly 1 Tbps downlink capacity, while V2 Mini sits around 96 Gbps. Then Starship makes the plan even more ridiculous, because now SpaceX can launch far more of them. More users. Higher speeds. Lower latency. Direct-to-cell. AI traffic. Starlink is prepping for a sky that has a lot more internet to give. Starlink / Writer: Annette, Designer: Jannéshow more

10,200 operational Starlink satellites are impressive. But having them... talk to one another is where it gets really interesting. The V3 satellites tested on Starship all connected through laser links, while Starlink’s broadband fleet is already delivering around 800 Tbps of downlink capacity. Now combine that inter-satellite network with Starship carrying much larger V3 deployments. More capacity. More routes for the data. More places Starlink can reach properly. This is becoming one very capable orbital network. Starlink SpaceX / Writer: Annette, Grok Imagine Designer: Jannéshow more

STARLINK: Former Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa met with... a SpaceX representative today to discuss Starlink and the integration of satellite technology with mobile networks. The technology could allow phones outside mobile coverage to use satellite communications, helping people stay connected even during crisis situations. Siliņa said this is not only about technological development, but also Latvia’s security and national resilience. She also stressed that Europe must cooperate with reliable NATO allies and use the best available technologies. Starlink can help ensure that nations remain connected when traditional communications infrastructure is unavailable.show more

🇷🇺 Russia’s Starlink killers showcase new era of electronic... battlefield warfare Russia has ramped-up EW use to detect and jam Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals and satellites, Ukrainian media reports. 👉 Meet Russia’s key counter-Starlink systems: 🔸 Volna Kupol Garant Russia’s latest electronic warfare system reportedly uses a directed high-frequency radio beam to disrupt Starlink operations. Rather than damaging satellites orbiting roughly 500 kilometers above Earth, the system blinds them – cutting their ability to connect with ground terminals while they remain under attack. According to reports, Volna is a mobile system built around six trailers. Each carries a pair of steerable satellite dishes mounted on rotating platforms. A single battery is reportedly capable of denying Starlink coverage across an area of up to 20 sq km. Some analysts say the system was previously referenced under the designation Peresvet-M, although this has not been independently confirmed. Ukrainian sources claim Volna was first deployed during Russia's offensive in the Kharkov region in 2024. They also say its use has increased significantly in recent months. 🔸 Tobol The secretive Russian EW complex is reportedly used to disrupt signals from NATO-linked satellite networks, including GPS, Galileo, and Starlink. Reports claim that Tobol attacks satellite communications on both ends of the link – jamming downlinks from satellites to ground receivers and uplinks from Earth to orbit. Its power and range also allegedly allow it to create an electromagnetic "umbrella." 🔸 Kalinka The system is designed to hunt down satellite communications signals, including those transmitted by Starlink terminals at distances of up to 15 km. It can reportedly track and lock onto even Starshield – SpaceX’s hardened military variant of Starlink. Western media warns that while Tobol disrupts GPS signals on a broad scale, the Kalinka’s precision-targeting capabilities could pose a more direct threat to specific military operations. 🔸 Krasukha The Krasukha-S4 is designed to neutralize reconnaissance satellites, ground-based radar installations, and airborne surveillance systems. It does so by emitting powerful electronic jamming signals that disrupt key radar bands and other radio-frequency emissions. A standard Krasukha-S4 battery consists of two vehicles and has an operational range exceeding 300 kilometers. 🔸 Borshchevik The light mobile system is designed to detect and geolocate Starlink terminals within a 180-degree sector at ranges of up to 10 km, with a reported accuracy of five meters. Using direction-finding and biangulation algorithms, it can locate a target in less than three minutes at a single scanning position. The Borshchevik-2 airborne system hunts Starlink signals from the sky, with reported accuracy down to 0.4 m.show more

Space AI data centers sound insanely complicated. Elon says... they’re actually easier to build than Starlink satellites. Starlink has to pack in huge phased-array antennas, parabolic antennas and multiple laser links just to keep everyone connected. An AI satellite is much simpler: lots of solar cells, a radiator, compute and a few laser links. No giant antenna gymnastics required. Turns out putting AI in space may be the easy part. SpaceX Starlink SpaceXAI / Writer: Annette, Grok Imagine Designer: Jannéshow more

STARLINK MADE DEAD ZONES EXTINCT SpaceX’s Direct to Cell... service is now live in the US and New Zealand. It brings satellite messaging straight to 4G phones without towers. Over 400 satellites are already flying, texting, and even video calling from space. T-Mobile and One NZ users are first in, but more countries are coming fast. Global connectivity? Just getting started. Source: Starlinkshow more

One company alone managing more than 11,000 satellites in... orbit is completely insane SpaceX is basically becoming the traffic controller of low Earth orbit Every Starlink satellite has autonomous collision avoidance onboard If collision probability rises above just 1 in 100,000, the satellite begins planning an avoidance maneuver That is 10× more conservative than the 1-in-10,000 industry threshold SpaceX cites But the impressive part goes beyond Starlink itself SpaceX continuously shares precise orbital data and planned trajectories with the U.S. Space Force, LeoLabs and other satellite operators so everyone can screen for potential conjunctions and coordinate maneuvers Starlink satellites can then calculate safer trajectories and autonomously move when needed 11,000+ spacecraft Constantly moving Constantly tracking risk Constantly coordinating with everything else in orbit SpaceX built the largest satellite constellation in history and then built an autonomous traffic management system around itshow more

Starlink’s first dedicated launch was only in 2019. 60... satellites. That was the starting line. Now Starlink has around 10.3 million subscribers across 164 countries, territories, and markets, with roughly 9,600 broadband and mobile satellites in low-Earth orbit. Direct to Cell is already reaching about 7.4 million monthly unique devices across roughly 30 countries. SpaceX's team took “internet from space” and turned it into actual global infrastructure in under 7 years. Ridiculously impressive. SpaceX Starlink X Freeze / Writer: Annette, Designer: Jannéshow more