30 March 2020
OneWeb files for bankruptcy over financial difficulties
... latency of 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...
08 December 2021
Japanese billionaire heads to the ISS for a 12 day stay
... tycoon tweeted on Wednesday morning. Fellow billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson all made breakthrough ... with him on a 2023 mission around the moon operated by Musk's SpaceX. He and his assistant will be the first private Japanese...
01 April 2025
Who Owns Outer Space?
...the Kosmos 1408 satellite by a “powerful military [demonstrating] a capability that everyone already knew it possessed”; and Elon Musk’s apparent desire to control “large swaths of Earth’s most desirable orbits”. At what point does SpaceX “exceed the...
01 April 2025
The New World on Mars - What we can Create on the Red Planet
...author embeds himself in his work). In supporting Elon Musk’s well-publicised aim to make humankind an interplanetary species, Zubrin goes ...as far as to boast: “I know Musk, and I played a role… in helping to convince him ...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... his plans of turning a profit on suborbital tourism. Space startups mushroomed in the Mojave Desert. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, became a world-famous company. Until July 2011, when the Skolkovo space cluster was created, the...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... of the frontier of space. Nothing speaks to this more than the announcements by Richard Branson at Virgin and Elon Musk of SpaceX that they are funding hundreds of satellites, to extend the Internet backbone to low Earth orbit and...
