Elon Musk recently announced that he was relocating the companies SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter) from their current headquarters in California to Texas. The news has placed a spotlight on the rise in big tech shifting its operations to the Lone Star state, with Austin emerging as a main hub.

Bayanat AI PLC and Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (Yahsat) have successfully launched the UAE's first Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite.

NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX plan to launch the 21st cargo mission to the ISS on Sunday, using a Cygnus spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. The craft, named S. S. Francis R. ‘Dick’ Scobee, will deliver 8,200 pounds of supplies.

The International Space Station (ISS), which weighs 430,000 kilograms (950,000 pounds), stands as the largest individual structure ever assembled in space.

Indonesia is the third Southeast Asian country where Starlink will operate, following Malaysia and the Philippines. Starlink has also been extensively used in Ukraine by the military, hospitals, businesses, and aid organizations.

According to reports which cite unnamed sources familiar with the classified contract, the newly planned network will incorporate hundreds of spy satellites. This disclosure coincides with a growing dependency of military and intelligence agencies in the US and other nations on SpaceX and its Starlink satellite network.

Traditionally reliant on foreign vendors for precise coordinates and timings, the deployment of this indigenous spy satellite draws a paradigm shift, granting India autonomous surveillance capabilities and full ground control.