AST SpaceMobile secures FCC approval to compete with Starlink Mobile

newsletter icon

AST SpaceMobile has received the green light to operate a satellite phone service in the United States, setting the company up to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile. AST won approval from the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to operate its entire constellation of 248 satellites and provide “supplemental coverage from space,” including outside the United … Read more

Climate change group sues US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico

Climate change group sues US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico

Sixteen years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history, environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over approval of BP’s new massive ultra-deep oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico. In March, the administration approved a plan by BP to drill for oil even deeper than the Deepwater … Read more