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...
01 October 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...
08 December 2021
Japanese billionaire heads to the ISS for a 12 day stay
... the tycoon tweeted on Wednesday morning. Fellow billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson all made breakthrough ... with him on a 2023 mission around the moon operated by Musk's SpaceX. He and his assistant will be the first private ...
01 April 2025
Who Owns Outer Space?
...the Kosmos 1408 satellite by a “powerful military [demonstrating] a capability that everyone already knew it possessed”; and Elon Musk’s apparent desire to control “large swaths of Earth’s most desirable orbits”. At what point does SpaceX “exceed the...
