23 October 2017
Space race ramps up between Blue Origin and SpaceX
... of the Merlin 1D engine that powers the current Falcon 9. It is also earmarked to power the spaceship that Elon Musk is developing to send people to Mars. Work on the prototype is expected to be completed by 30 April, 2018. Meanwhile, Blue Origins...
18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
The recent news that Elon Musk would like to launch a further 30, 000 satellites ... see if the company responds to these complaints lodged with the FCC. Perhaps Musk's reply might also provide some clarification as to why the company submitted these ...
03 March 2021
Japanese billionaire offers space seats on his private lunar trip
... behind it instead. "It'll be the first private spaceflight, first commercial spaceflight with humans beyond Earth orbit," Elon Musk said in a video announcement with the Japanese billionaire. "So this has never occurred before. We're gonna go past...
03 August 2015
From SpaceX to SolarCity: how space sector innovation affects sustainability on Earth
... of “sideways” innovation across different sectors, meanwhile, can be affected by a single driving force – and a single big name. Elon Musk, perhaps, is a good example to invoke here. As Daniel Gross recently wrote in Slate, the man behind SpaceX and...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
... in one launch, is just a fraction of the total number Elon Musk will send to orbit so that he can complete his internet-from... the stack has a slightly different amount of rotational inertia," Musk said during a call with reporters last week. As such,...
28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
...Planet. This is the fourth time the “water tower,” as Musk has previously called it, has left the ground, with each ... pm EDT (22:00 GMT). "Congrats SpaceX team!!" SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter after the flight. Despite being a roaring success...
