Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO.

Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 deadline it keeps moving
Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 deadline it keeps moving

Russia intends to switch on a commercial version of its homegrown answer to Starlink next year, according to people familiar with the programme cited by Reuters, the latest milestone in a project that has been promising to arrive for most of a decade. …

NASA tells astronauts to shelter in SpaceX Dragon due to new ISS leaks

The space agency says Roscosmos has discovered new leaks in the Russian service module that it is trying to repair.

Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the mo…

Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire
Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which came out in 2024. I can’t recommend it enough.  I wanted to have Ryan on the show because we’re on the cusp of the SpaceX […]

Blue Origin says fuel tanks and key pad components survived the New Glenn explosion, pledges to fly again this year
Blue Origin says fuel tanks and key pad components survived the New Glenn explosion, pledges to fly again this year

Blue Origin has disclosed that last week’s New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral spared the launch pad’s fuel tanks and several other critical components, offering the company a faster path back to flight than the initial images of the blast sug…

SpaceX’s first employee just raised $500 million for the company that moves satellites once rockets put them in the wrong orbit
SpaceX’s first employee just raised $500 million for the company that moves satellites once rockets put them in the wrong orbit

Impulse Space, the orbital transfer vehicle startup founded by Tom Mueller, has raised $500 million in a Series D round that values the company at $4.26 billion. The round was co-led by 137 Ventures and Banner VC, with participation from existing inves…

Blue Origin plans to launch New Glenn again this year after explosion

CEO Dave Limp said damage to the company’s launchpad in Florida was not as bad as expected. But Blue Origin still hasn’t shared the cause of last week’s explosion.

Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI

Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo.

The space stock rally is cracking as investors prepare to swap proxies for SpaceX itself
The space stock rally is cracking as investors prepare to swap proxies for SpaceX itself

A rally that carried space-related stocks to extraordinary gains this year is showing serious cracks. The Procure Space ETF, which trades under the ticker UFO, has dropped almost 11% in just two sessions. Intuitive Machines and Rocket Lab have each fal…