The new US missile defense system will explore alternatives to Elon Musk's SpaceX, with Amazon. com's Project Kuiper among the main contenders.

Donald Trump tried to cut ties with Elon Musk’s SpaceX following their fallout, it has been reported. As Mr Trump’s relationship with his former “first buddy” descended into a bitter feud, the US president suggested he could save public money by terminating contracts awarded to Mr Musk’s companies.

The Trump administration is expanding its search for partners to build the Golden Dome missile defense system, courting Amazon.com's Project Kuiper and big defense contractors as tensions with Elon Musk threaten SpaceX's dominance in the program,

SpaceXs Starlink, Elon Musks satellite internet service, experienced one of its largest global outages on Thursday, leaving tens of thousands of users offline. The disruption began around 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT),

The major outage came the day after Starlink launched a new cellular service with T-Mobile meant to kill dead zones.

Starlink is experiencing a network outage, Elon Musk's SpaceX-owned satellite internet company said on Thursday, with Downdetector showing that the service was down for thousands of users.

President Trump said Thursday he has no interest in stripping Elon Musk-owned companies of billions in federal money — adding that he wants the former “first buddy” to

China’s biggest networks have deployed less than 1 percent of their planned satellites, falling far behind SpaceX for dominance in space communications.