Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation

Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself and other big-name investors, the New York Times reported.

Fi’s Starlink-enabled pet tracker found my dog when LTE couldn’t
Fi’s Starlink-enabled pet tracker found my dog when LTE couldn’t

Fi Ultra is the first Starlink-enabled pet tracker you can buy. It expands on GPS and LTE trackers, adding automatic failover to T-Mobile’s T-Satellite-branded direct-to-cell service when venturing into cellular dead zones. That lets owners tap into SpaceX’s constellation of low Earth orbit Starlink satellites to track their pets anywhere in the US. But it […]

After 25 years of self-funding, Bezos opens Blue Origin at a $130bn valuation
After 25 years of self-funding, Bezos opens Blue Origin at a $130bn valuation

Jeff Bezos is opening Blue Origin to outside money at last, in a round that values the rocket firm at $130 billion, CNBC reports. It follows Elon Musk’s record SpaceX IPO and pits the two space fortunes against each other again. Blue Origin is raising …

Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space

Kevin Weil’s new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

SpaceX’s biggest bull sees a $10.5tn valuation. A famed bear bets on a crash
SpaceX’s biggest bull sees a $10.5tn valuation. A famed bear bets on a crash

SpaceX just joined the Nasdaq 100. On the same day, one Wall Street analyst put a $10.5 trillion price tag on it. A famed investor put the odds of a crash at 90 per cent. SpaceX has plenty of admirers on Wall Street. None goes further than Raymond Jame…

Romania leads its first private ESA mission with CyberCUBE launch
Romania leads its first private ESA mission with CyberCUBE launch

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the morning of 7 July, carrying a satellite roughly the size of a loaf of bread that will spend the next year probing how European spacecraft can be attacked. The payload, c…

SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell pledges $320M in stock to Trump Accounts
SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell pledges $320M in stock to Trump Accounts

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell will donate a share of SpaceX stock to roughly 2 million children through the Trump Accounts programme, CNBC reports. At around $162 a share, the pledge is worth over $320m. The gift comes from Shotwell’s and her husban…

You can now walk through space and gaze into a black hole at this VR exhibit

Smithsonian Starstruck lets visitors walk through the Big Bang, brush past the Sun, and gaze into a black hole, all without leaving Washington, D.C.