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Musk was referring to the trial earlier in 2021 between Epic Games, the developer of popular game "Fortnite," and Apple. "Apple app store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet. Epic is right," Musk wrote on Twitter. Epic Games brought a high-profile lawsuit against Apple over the way it runs the App Store and doesn't allow things like app stores within apps or alternate ways to take payment for digital goods.

Under this partnership, SpaceX will begin to locate Starlink ground stations within Google data centre properties, enabling the secure, low-latency and reliable delivery of data from more than 1,500 Starlink satellites launched to orbit to date to locations at the network edge via Google Cloud.

The planned two-year mission is called SPHEREx, short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer. The near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies, according to NASA.

It is the first undocking of a US commercial cargo craft from the International Docking Adapter on the station's space-facing port of the Harmony module. Previous cargo Dragon spacecraft were attached and removed from the space station using the station's robotic Canadarm2.

The launch and ascent of Starship serial number 8 (SN8) were successful, but as the engines appeared to reignite for landing, the vehicle flipped back to vertical and then slammed into the ground, Xinhua reported.

The upgraded Dragon spacecraft successfully separated from the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage, as the spacecraft continued its journey to the ISS to deliver critical supplies, equipment, and material to support multiple science and research and experiments that will take place aboard the space station.