On Sunday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully took to the skies from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying with it another 60 Starlink satellites. The two-stage rocket described by SpaceX as “the first orbital-class rocket capable of reflight’ has been making frequent trips shuttling Starlink satellites into low orbit as SpaceX founder…
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Jeff Bezos Steps Up Effort Into Blue Origin’s Project Kuiper
Freed from his daily obligations at Amazon, Jeff Bezos is expected to turn up the heat on his space venture, Blue Origin, as it faces a pivotal year and fierce competition from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, industry sources said. The 57-year-old Bezos, a lifelong space enthusiast and the world’s second-richest person behind Musk, said last week…
SpaceX To Send Four Civilians To The Space Using A Reusable Rocket, Mission Inspiration 4
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is creating history and how. The aerospace giant has decided to launch the first-ever all-civilians mission to space sometime in the fourth quarter of the year. Named Inspiration 4, the SpaceX mission will send four people on a multi-day trip into low-earth orbit. The vehicle chosen for the historic expedition is the…
How Will Elon Musk’s $100 Million XPRIZE Work For Carbon Removal
Elon Musk notified the world that he would be donating $100 million to pursue new technologies for carbon capture, methods through which carbon dioxide can be actively extracted from the atmosphere as a means to help stave off climate change. As TechCrunch reported in January when he made the tweet, Musk’s sizeable pool of monetary…
Tesla Stock Sinks After Elon Musk Rejects Questions on Cash
The earnings report started optimistically enough, with Elon Musk forecasting an end to Tesla Inc.’s cash-burning days after blazing through another $1 billion last quarter. But by the end of Tesla’s first-quarter conference call, Musk was berating analysts for asking “boring” questions, and any shred of predictability was out the window. Investors cringed, sending the…
