The company is also aiming to launch the first V3 Starlink satellites during next year's first half —assuming SpaceX can stop its Starship vehicle from exploding.

SpaceX sent 26 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Tuesday (July 15), after a launch from southern California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:05 p.m. PDT local (10:05 p.m. EDT or 0205 GMT July 18), escaping the fog and cloud cover blanketing Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base.

An unlikely collaboration between Amazon and SpaceX shows that practicality can trump rivalry when it comes to the space race.

Users in the US, Australia and Indonesia have reported receiving an email message about the 20% discount on their monthly Starlink bill.

Amazon's third set of operational Kuiper satellites lifted off at 2:30 am EST (06:30 UTC) on Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket arced downrange over the Atlantic Ocean, heading northeast to place its payload into the Kuiper constellation at an inclination of 51.9 degrees to the equator.

SpaceX is expected to launch Starlink satellite internet services in Vietnam from the fourth quarter of this year, state media cited a government official as saying on Tuesday.

Mobile, Rogers plan on offering the cellular Starlink service as a free beta before officially launching it later this year for CAD$15 per month.

Starlinks launch in India is imminent, with approved licensing and plans for 600-700 Gbps bandwidth. Connect more users by 2027.

The Federal Aviation Administration told lawmakers it is not considering replacing its current telecommunication contracts it holds with L3Harris or Verizon Communications with Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starlink satellite unit.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites into space. (SpaceX / Amazon via LinkedIn) In a case of strange space bedfellows, SpaceX