August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... and, in the past few years, we have seen increasing discussions of privately funded space exploration efforts. Elon Musk, via SpaceX, has committed to human settlement of Mars and Jeff Bezos, via Blue Origin, to large-scale...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... Rick Tumlinson, one of the world’s space ‘visionaries’ is credited with helping start the space revolution of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. A global thought leader and six-time Congressional witness, he won the World Technology...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
..., and it could also reuse technology built for Mars settlements, such as those proposed by SpaceX founder, Elon Musk, who recently announced his vision of sending one million people to the red planet by 2050. Transportation of goods...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... devoted to the development of space activities by private actors. The best-known examples of that are, of course, Elon Musk with SpaceX and Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin, but there are also other actors that...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... tons of payload on a reusable rocket, taking people and cargo to the Moon and potentially fulfilling billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of colonising Mars. Other heavy rocket launches include ULA’s Vulcan, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, as well...
20 December 2015
SpaceX’s postponed rocket launch due for lift off today
... landing," SpaceX said in a statement. Monday "has a 10 percent higher chance of a good landing,” announced internet tycoon Elon Musk on Sunday afternoon, several hours before its initially planned launch. Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket and the...
