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A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
WORLD
Oct 24, 2026
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
The Biden and Trump administrations had several times asked SpaceX to turn its Starlink service on or off in various countries.
U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink speaks during the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in May.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 16, 2026
U.S. admission of space weapons seen as landmark moment in race with China and Russia
The move underscores how quickly developments have escalated into increasingly open preparations for the prospect of conflict extending into space.
NASA's Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 2, 2026
NASA’s moon mission tests aerospace old guard as SpaceX and Blue Origin hover
The mission is a key test of whether the agency’s traditional contractor-built systems can remain viable in a rapidly shifting space industry.
A SpaceX Starship lifts off during its fifth flight test, in Boca Chica, Texas, on Oct. 13, 2024. Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence startup, xAI.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 3, 2026
SpaceX acquires xAI in record deal as Musk looks to unify AI and space ambitions
The transaction values SpaceX at $1 trillion, and xAI at $250 billion.
SpaceX's Starship lifts off during a flight test, in Boca Chica, Texas, in October 2024. SpaceX combining with xAI would bring Elon Musk’s rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social media platform and Grok AI chatbot under one roof.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 30, 2026
SpaceX in merger talks with other Musk companies ahead of IPO
The plan would give fresh momentum to SpaceX’s effort to launch data centers into orbit as Elon Musk battles for supremacy in the artificial intelligence race.
Puppies rest next to a Starlink terminal near the town of Lyman, in Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on the country in October 2022.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Jan 17, 2026
Musk’s Starlink faces high-profile security test in Iran crackdown
How SpaceX withstands Iranian attacks on its most lucrative line of business ?is expected to be closely watched by the U.S., China and intelligence agencies.
A SpaceX Super Heavy booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off during a test flight in Starbase, Texas, on Oct. 13.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 13, 2025
Musk’s Mars mission adds risk to red-hot SpaceX IPO
SpaceX is targeting a listing next year that could raise more than $25 ?billion at a valuation exceeding $1 ?trillion.
Artemis II crew members, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, Mission Specialist Christina Koch of U.S., Pilot Victor Glover of U.S. and Commander Reid Wiseman of U.S., give a shout out to the NASA Crew-11 crew and their upcoming mission to the International Space Station during a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center Press Site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 21, 2025
NASA opens SpaceX moon-lander contract to rival bids after Starship delays
The move paves the way for rivals such as Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to snatch a high-profile mission to land the first astronauts on the moon in half a century.
A SpaceX Starship spacecraft sits atop a super heavy booster at its launch pad before a scheduled 10th test flight was postponed at the company's complex in Starbase, Texas, on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 25, 2025
SpaceX postpones Starship test flight over ground system issue
Similar postponements in the past have been resolved in a matter of days.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Axiom-4 crew of four astronauts lifts off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on a mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jun 26, 2025
India, Poland and Hungary astronauts launch for first space station mission
The four-member crew was carried aloft on a towering SpaceX launch vehicle consisting of a Crew Dragon capsule perched atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its Super Heavy booster is launched on its ninth test at the company's launch pad in Starbase, Texas, on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 28, 2025
SpaceX’s Starship spins out of control
SpaceX's Starship rocket roared into space from Texas on Tuesday but spun out of control about halfway through its flight without achieving some of its most important testing goals, bringing fresh engineering hurdles to CEO Elon Musk's increasingly turbulent Mars rocket program.
The Crew Dragon capsule containing Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams and two other astronauts descends by parachute before their splashdown off the coast of Florida, on March 18 in a still image from video.
WORLD
Mar 19, 2025
NASA astronauts ‘Butch and Suni’ return to Earth after drawn-out mission in space
Their return ends a mission fraught with uncertainty and technical troubles that turned into a global spectacle.
Debris streaking through the sky after SpaceX's Starship spacecraft tumbled and exploded in space, in Big Sampson Kay, The Bahamas, Thursday, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2025
SpaceX’s Starship explodes in space and rains debris over Caribbean
The failure of the eighth Starship test comes just over a month after the seventh also ended in an explosion.
Tracers are seen in the night sky as Ukrainian servicemen fire at a drone during a Russian drone strike in Kyiv on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 23, 2025
U.S. could cut Ukraine’s access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources
Ukraine’s continued access to SpaceX-owned Starlink was brought up in discussions between U.S. and Ukrainian officials.
Researchers work around Chang'e-5 lunar return capsule carrying moon samples next to a Chinese national flag, after it landed in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Dec. 17, 2020.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 14, 2025
China builds space alliances in Africa as Trump cuts foreign aid
Beijing has access to data and images collected from the space technology, and Chinese personnel maintain a long-term presence in the facilities it builds in Africa.
SpaceX's Starship rocket after launching from South Padre Island near Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 17, 2025
SpaceX’s Starship breaks up in space, forcing flights to divert
Video footage showed orange balls of light streaking across the sky over the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince, leaving trails of smoke behind.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is launched for the Europa Clipper mission to study one of Jupiter's 95 moons, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Oct. 14.
WORLD
Dec 18, 2024
Power failed at SpaceX mission control before September spacewalk
The outage, which hasn’t previously been reported, meant that SpaceX mission control was briefly unable to command its Dragon spacecraft in orbit.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27.
WORLD
Nov 16, 2024
Senators ask Pentagon and U.S. attorney general to probe Musk’s alleged Russia calls
Musk, who has been appointed to a senior government role by Trump, oversees billions of dollars in Pentagon and intelligence-community contracts.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (right) and Suni Williams pose ahead of the launch of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 25.
WORLD
Jul 11, 2024
NASA astronauts are confident Boeing’s Starliner will bring them home
Several issues with Starliner’s propulsion system have extended the astronauts’ mission indefinitely.
China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe on the launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan province on May 3
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 2, 2024
China lands on moon’s far side in historic sample-retrieval mission
The mission “involves many engineering innovations, high risks and great difficulty,” China’s space agency said in a statement on its website.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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