13 April 2020
Russia to cut launch rates after price war with SpaceX
... and SpaceX, after Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin accused Elon Musk of unfair pricing for space launches. "Instead ... according to the Russian Information Agency news website. To counter Musk’s pricing strategy, Russia will slash the price of its space...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos as passengers on their respective space vehicles, together with the continued success of Elon Musk, have prompted a global commentary on the ‘billionaire space race’, but space innovation also operates at a local level...
29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
... unsafe conduct in space over two "close encounters" between the Chinese space station and satellites operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Tiangong, China's new space station, had to manoeuvre to avoid colliding with one Starlink satellite in July...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... Station). But a permanent settlement would be a different matter: Instead of half a dozen astronauts there would need to be thousands (Elon Musk has stated a goal for self-sufficiency of one million people) A large-scale closed-cycle ecological life...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... might recall the stomach-churning scene from the episode Elon Musk hosted in May 2021, when Pete Davidson’s monosyllabic ...read fifteen times; “Mars is a Hellhole.” Responding to Elon Musk’s lust for immortality on the Red Planet, which is largely...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... enough of them to bankroll an entire industry to the point where they carry us, as a species, sustainably off-Earth? Although Elon Musk estimates that he can eventually bring the price of a seat to LEO down below $1m (an enormous drop from the...
