November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... with, and it could also reuse technology built for Mars settlements, such as those proposed by SpaceX founder, Elon Musk, who recently announced his vision of sending one million people to the red planet by 2050. Transportation of goods...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... are devoted to the development of space activities by private actors. The best-known examples of that are, of course, Elon Musk with SpaceX and Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin, but there are also other actors that...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... up 150 tons of payload on a reusable rocket, taking people and cargo to the Moon and potentially fulfilling billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of colonising Mars. Other heavy rocket launches include ULA’s Vulcan, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, as well...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... ideologies. Pak critiques contemporary enthusiasm for space colonisation – particularly among tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk – who frame interplanetary settlement as a solution to Earth’s environmental crises without addressing the underlying...
21 December 2015
SpaceX’s postponed rocket launch due for lift off today
...a land landing," SpaceX said in a statement. Monday "has a 10 percent higher chance of a good landing,” announced internet tycoon Elon Musk on Sunday afternoon, several hours before its initially planned launch. Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket and the...
18 January 2016
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully, Though First Stage Landing Fails
... broken as we touched down on the droneship,” he said. “Unfortunately we are not standing upright on the droneship at the moment.” Elon Musk, SpaceX founder and CEO later tweeted that it was “definitely harder to land on a ship. ...A leg lockout didn...
