07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
... carried a playful and unusual payload: Mr Musk’s red Roadster, an electric sports car built by his other company, Tesla. Strapped inside the car was a dummy wearing a SpaceX spacesuit and soon after launch social media...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... ions from a powerful CME seems entirely possible. Chart showing the Magnetic field level represented by a gauss or a tesla (i.e. 10,000 gauss). The idea would be to strategically locate this ‘magnetic solar screen’ in the L-1 position between Earth...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... not only the SpaceX company, but also the Tesla company, which has introduced an innovative electric car to the market.... Even though the Tesla company entered the automobile market just two years ago, it ...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...the headlines in February 2018 when it launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster sports car into orbit around the Sun With respect ...the headlines in February 2018 when it launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster sports car into orbit around the Sun using its ...
03 August 2015
From SpaceX to SolarCity: how space sector innovation affects sustainability on Earth
... Gross recently wrote in Slate, the man behind SpaceX and Tesla is also the man behind SolarCity, a fascinating and highly ambitious...SolarCity has been written about much less than SpaceX and Tesla. Solar panel technology isn’t seen as nearly as “...
23 September 2024
Elon Musk
... other ventures. Indeed, back in 2008, when both SpaceX and Tesla were struggling, his close advisors urged him to choose between the two... how many times he has given the same pep-talk at Tesla. In June 2021, Musk turned 50. So despite his marijuana-...
