June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... before the first flight to Mars. At the 67th International Astronautics Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2016, Elon Musk, head of SpaceX, presented a project for an interplanetary transport system involving the use of a reusable rocket to deliver...
23 March 2020
OneWeb launches 34 more satellites amid bankruptcy concerns
... it faces stiff competition from competitors such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper...the end of the fourth quarter of 2021. Conversely, Elon Musk has just boosted his Starlink mega-constellation to 360 ...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
..., test, and fly the first commercial human spaceflight system in history to be certified by NASA,” said SpaceX boss Elon Musk. “This is a great honor that inspires confidence in our endeavour to return to the Moon, travel to Mars, and ultimately...
27 April 2020
SpaceX's first full-scale Starship passes key test
Elon Musk’s Starship SN4, which the entrepreneur hopes will one day lead... the test itself as opposed to any material problems with the Starship build, said Musk. SpaceX's Starship SN2 has been the only prototype to pass cryogenic proof testing, ...
20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has bought two deepwater oil rigs near to the .... Once complete, Starship could launch as many as 100 people at a time, an achievement Musk thinks could be attainable about six years from now, possibly earlier. “If we get lucky, ...
05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
... SpaceX, NASA commercial crew mission to the ISS, Elon Musk is pushing forward with plans to reach Mars with ... style, both vehicles will be fully reusable, an approach that Musk passionately advocates as being the only way forward to slashing the cost...
