22 April 2020
SpaceX seeks permission to lower the orbit of all its first-gen Starlink satellites
...application to the FCC on Friday (17th April) Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm has requested to relocate the remaining ...and to make related changes.” So far 362 satellites of Musk's planned mega-constellation have been deployed. In the documentation submitted...
03 February 2021
SpaceX announces Inspiration4, the first ‘all-civilian’ mission to space
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced it plans on sending the first all-civilian ...two to five days in orbit, though “the mission parameters are up to Jared,” Musk said. The Dragon Capsule will then reenter Earth’s atmosphere for a soft water landing off...
05 November 2021
Blue Origin loses NASA lawsuit over SpaceX lunar lander contract
... System (HLS) with its Starship proposal. Its creator, Elon Musk, envisions that eventually Starship will be used a fully reusable... success for NASA and SpaceX on the contract.” His rival, Musk, also took to Twitter to comment on the ruling but posted...
30 September 2019
The Moon: A History for the Future
... “feel different about such undertakings”. However, he could hardly be said to have ‘drunk the Cool-Aid’ regarding Elon Musk: “He is also a prick”, opines Morton, though “Not an irredeemable arsehole…”. “Mr Bezos”, on the other hand “is clearly more...
30 March 2020
OneWeb files for bankruptcy over financial difficulties
... and latency of 32 ms. However the company faces stiff competition from competitors such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper initiative. Musk has recently been granted a license by the FCC for the use...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... about his plans of turning a profit on suborbital tourism. Space startups mushroomed in the Mojave Desert. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, became a world-famous company. Until July 2011, when the Skolkovo space cluster was created, the...
