July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... thinkers. It is a key driver of entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos – they feel that such expansion is imperative...hope you agree that is the right way to go.” This is Musk’s primary motivation for his efforts in spaceflight – he claims that ...
February 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... are great, but we are equal to those challenges. For Elon Musk’s plan for a self-sustaining Mars colony to become a reality, ...ever wreak on Earth. For the space nation Asgardia, or Elon Musk’s plan for a self-sustaining Mars city, to become a reality...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
...International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara on 27 September 2016, Elon Musk, the head of SpaceX, presented a project for an...in the first phase to up to 1000 ships in a decade. Musk has stated that he plans to send one million people to Mars by...
02 August 2015
From SpaceX to SolarCity: how space sector innovation affects sustainability on Earth
...” innovation across different sectors, meanwhile, can be affected by a single driving force – and a single big name. Elon Musk, perhaps, is a good example to invoke here. As Daniel Gross recently wrote in Slate, the man behind SpaceX and...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
...in one launch, is just a fraction of the total number Elon Musk will send to orbit so that he can complete his internet-from... the stack has a slightly different amount of rotational inertia," Musk said during a call with reporters last week. As such, ...
28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
...Planet. This is the fourth time the “water tower,” as Musk has previously called it, has left the ground, with each progressive... EDT (22:00 GMT). "Congrats SpaceX team!!" SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter after the flight. Despite being a roaring ...
