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...
01 April 2024
Astrotopia. The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
... first page of the introduction, which characterises the two main protagonists of the story, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, as “NewSpaceniks” in “agonistic partnership” with the national space agencies. Argumentatively, the author states “there’s not much...
23 September 2024
Elon Musk
... of interviews and late-night conversations”; it also references more than a hundred separate interviews with the likes of Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Bill Gates. One thing SpaceX fans have had to come to terms with is that...
