September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...slug it out in Earth’s sub-orbital space tourism market, Elon Musk has his sights firmly set on Mars. Caricature by artist James...it out in Earth’s sub-orbital space tourism market, Elon Musk has his sights firmly set on Mars. Caricature by artist ...
28 June 2015
SpaceX Falcon 9 failure: will launch markets and manned spaceflight be affected?
...with its historically low prices. In a tweet, CEO Elon Musk blamed an overpressure event in a liquid oxygen tank, though...stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2015 The failure of the rocket is...
21 December 2015
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully
...think people are really overjoyed,” SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said in a brief media teleconference about an hour... space by probably two orders of magnitude,” or a factor of 100, Musk said in a Dec. 15 speech at the Fall Meeting of the American ...
16 June 2016
SpaceX Successfully Launches All-Electric Satellites; Loses First Stage in Landing Attempt
...ship in the Atlantic Ocean was not successful. According to Elon Musk's Twitter post, the attempt resulted in the stage's “rapid ... three landing engines. Probably get there end of year,” Musk said. “Maybe hardest impact to date. Droneship still ok.”...
18 May 2018
China launches its first private space rocket
... west has been dominated by the likes of Musk, Bezos and Branson for a while now, but..., OneSpace’s CEO identifies his companies progress with that of the once newcomer Elon Musk. Speaking to CNNMoney in an interview ahead of the launch, Chang said, "...
22 April 2020
SpaceX seeks permission to lower the orbit of all its first-gen Starlink satellites
... to the FCC on Friday (17th April) Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm has requested to relocate the remaining 2824...and to make related changes.” So far 362 satellites of Musk's planned mega-constellation have been deployed. In the documentation submitted...
