A new bill may open the door for the FAA to charge licensing fees on space launches starting in 2026, with an initial cap of $30,000 per launch.

Of course, while Amazon may have dominated the e-commerce world terrestrially, its satellite internet offering has a long way to go to catch up to Starlink, which operates a network of more than 6,700 satellites, the largest satellite constellation in the world.

The reforms pave the way for a new business model, where a ground facility, like those for Starlink, can serve multiple satellite services, rather than merely one.

A new analysis digs into the irony of satellite internet: The more popular it becomes, the worse speeds and reliability tend to get. There’s an irony with Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service beamed from space: The more popular it becomes, the worse its speeds and reliability tend to get.

Elon Musk’s Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet arm, has faced one of the biggest outages in recent times, affecting thousands of users in North America and E

Australia aims for orbit with the Gilmour Eris rocket, while SpaceX launches Starlink and Kuiper satellites, and Europe prepares Vega C’s next mission.

Opinion Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many things. It's a multi-thousand satellite global internet provider, growing by hundreds of new orbiting relays a month. It's part of intricate geopolitical power games between the Pentagon, the US government, Ukraine, and Musk himself.

Experts believe the nascent satellite market will be shaped by a variety of forces as it develops and expands.

The French government announced a 10-year framework contract with Eutelsat worth as much as €1 billion to provide military-grade satellite communications.