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📊 Conatel signed, and Starlink is no longer operating clandestinely
The National Telecommunications Commission granted seven general concessions to the commercial company SpaceX VZ S.C.A., allowing Starlink to operate officially in Venezuelan territory. The decision did not come out of nowhere: it was preceded by the technical cooperation the company provided during the double earthquake on June 24, 2026, when terrestrial telephone and internet infrastructure in La Guaira was seriously damaged.

SpaceX achieved this Monday what it had been pursuing for years: putting Starship into Earth orbit. It happened on the spacecraft’s fourteenth test flight, with liftoff from Starbase, the company’s complex at the southern tip of Texas, and a maneuver that the company itself had hesitated to carry out minutes before deciding to do it. In the end, it did—and with that, the program took a step that its engineers described as an enormous milestone.
📊 The technical milestone: altitude, speed, and nearly ten hours of flight