01 October 2019
Apollo 11 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... “an insight into the legacy of Apollo”, including how it inspired such modern space visionaries as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. The book is well-produced, with colour photos and detailed line drawings based on original NASA documents...
12 December 2019
Blue Origin's New Shepard makes 12th test flight
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched the 12th crewless test of its New Shepard rocket on Wednesday on a successful up-and-down ...
30 March 2020
OneWeb files for bankruptcy over financial difficulties
... 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 of up to a million...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
.... Is swathing Earth with an ever-increasing large number of satellites in a megaconstellation, such as those planned by SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s proposed Project Kuiper, the answer to the world’s internet access problems? It depends on who you ask...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
... launch and landing system designed for travel to the Moon, Mars, and other destinations. SpaceX beat Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, who has already delivered a full-sized lunar lander mock-up to the agency and defence...
08 December 2021
Japanese billionaire heads to the ISS for a 12 day stay
... his spacesuit fitted. "Dream come true," the tycoon tweeted on Wednesday morning. Fellow billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson all made breakthrough commercial tourism flights this year, bursting into a market Russia...
