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...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
...the likelihood that one of them might survive. This is what Musk means when he professes his “duty to maintain the light ... future.” Other advocates of terraforming go even further than Musk, expressing their intention to save not just humanity but ...
27 April 2020
SpaceX's first full-scale Starship passes key test
... opposed to any material problems with the Starship build, said Musk. SpaceX's Starship SN2 has been the only prototype to pass... though “approvals [from the FAA] may take longer.” Musk has said repeatedly that his space exploration firm will continue ...
