08 August 2018
The most reusable and reliable rocket ever?
...to Mars... "It's really better in every way than the Block 4," Musk said during a teleconference with reporters in May before the Block 5's debut...space shuttle used to ferry people to Mars that Musk unveiled plans for last year. When stacked together,...
13 April 2020
Russia to cut launch rates after price war with SpaceX
... to the Russian Information Agency news website. To counter Musk’s pricing strategy, Russia will slash the price of its...US companies that are funded from the budget," Rogozin said. Musk followed up the response by saying on Twitter: "SpaceX rockets ...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... to capture the current zeitgeist in laudatory biographies of Elon Musk and other space billionaires. However, just as it was .... Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa (right) with Elon Musk after the announcement that Maezawa would become the first...
23 March 2020
OneWeb launches 34 more satellites amid bankruptcy concerns
... filing for bankruptcy protection says a financial report by Bloomberg, as it faces stiff competition from competitors such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper initiative, who plan to put 40,000+ and 3236...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... Branson and Jeff Bezos as passengers on their respective space vehicles, together with the continued success of Elon Musk, have prompted a global commentary on the ‘billionaire space race’, but space innovation also operates at a local level...
29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
... conduct in space over two "close encounters" between the Chinese space station and satellites operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Tiangong, China's new space station, had to manoeuvre to avoid colliding with one Starlink satellite in July...
