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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Will Take Tesla’s Roadster To Mars

2Dec By RishabhNo Comments

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Will Take Tesla’s Roadster To Mars

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has up the stakes of an already difficult situation by today tweeting that the SpaceX's most powerful reusable rocket Falcon Heavy will launch next month from Apollo 11 pad. It was originally scheduled for November but the time was up for the launch. But, Elon Musk has seemingly confirmed the launch in the month of December. Falcon Heavy to launch next month from Apollo 11 pad at the Cape. Will have double thrust of next largest rocket. Guaranteed to be exciting, one way or another. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2017 Not only that, Falcon Heavy will be carrying Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into the space. Musk first tweeted the idea on Friday evening. Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination...

Elon Musk To Compete To Fund High-Speed Loop In Chicago

30Nov By reutersNo Comments

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Elon Musk To Compete To Fund High-Speed Loop In Chicago

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Tuesday The Boring Company will compete to fund, build and operate a high-speed Loop connecting O‘Hare Airport to downtown Chicago. Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc and rocket company SpaceX, recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high-speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion. Earlier on Wednesday, Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked respondents to present proposals to develop, design, equip, finance, operate and maintain an O'Hare Express operating system through a public-private agreement with Chicago. “Although cost estimates for the project are not yet known, the RFQ (Request for Qualifications) stipulates that the O‘Hare Expres...

Elon Musk-led SpaceX Raises Another $100M

28Nov By reutersNo Comments

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Elon Musk-led SpaceX Raises Another $100M

Elon Musk-led SpaceX has raised $100 million by selling shares, in an extension to a financing round earlier this year that raised up to $350 million, a regulatory filing showed on Monday. SpaceX’s funding round in July had valued the rocket maker at about $21 billion, according to news reports. In May, Space Exploration Technologies Corp launched its first satellite for the U.S. military with its Falcon 9 rocket, breaking a 10-year monopoly held by a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The Hawthorne, California-based company also has also outlined plans for a trip to Mars in 2022, to be followed by a manned mission to the red planet by 2024. Besides SpaceX, Musk also leads electric car maker Tesla Inc.

Musk’s SpaceX Shrinks Mars Rocket Ship To Cut Costs

29Sep By reutersNo Comments

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Musk’s SpaceX Shrinks Mars Rocket Ship To Cut Costs

To cut costs, Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has shrunk the size of the rocket ship it is developing to go to Mars, aiming to start construction on the first spaceship in the first half of next year, Musk said on Friday. (more…)

After Inspiring An Industry Of Hyperloop Startups, Elon Musk Is Set To Build His Own

5Aug By RishabhNo Comments

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After Inspiring An Industry Of Hyperloop Startups, Elon Musk Is Set To Build His Own

Elon Musk is now set to make his own Hyperloop after being an inspiration for startups, as per the latest report by Bloomberg. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is said to be planning to build the Hyperloop portion of his planned underground tunnel-based Hyperloop network himself, rather than relying on outside partners who are already developing commercial Hyperloop technology. He briefed his research conducted with his team at Space Exploration Technologies Corp that demonstrated the system's viability and offered it as a gift to the startup ecosystem. He revealed this saying that he needs to be "focussed" on SpaceX and Tesla. While the other startups raced to develop their hyperloops, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO's twitter post claiming to have received "verbal government approval" hit as ...

Elon Musk SpaceX Rocket Lifts Off Secret US Military Satellite

1May By reutersNo Comments

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Elon Musk SpaceX Rocket Lifts Off Secret US Military Satellite

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Monday, carrying the company's first satellite for the U.S. military, and breaking a 10-year monopoly held by a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The 23-story tall rocket took off from its seaside launch pad at Kennedy Space Center at 7:15 a.m. EDT. It will put into orbit a classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, an agency within the Defense Department that operates the nation's spy satellites. Nine minutes after takeoff, the rocket's main section touched down on a landing pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, just south of NASA's spaceport. Last month, Space Exploration Technologies Corp flew its first recovered booster on a second mission, a key step in company founder Elon Musk's quest ...

SpaceX Aborts Launch After ‘Odd’ Rocket Engine Behaviour

19Feb By reutersNo Comments

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SpaceX Aborts Launch After ‘Odd’ Rocket Engine Behaviour

SpaceX aborted its planned Dragon cargo launch to the International Space Station just seconds before liftoff today due to a "slightly odd" technical issue with the Falcon 9 rocket engine. The delay was made "out of an abundance of caution," a SpaceX spokesman said, and came a day after engineers discovered a small helium leak in the engine's second stage. "All systems go, except the movement trace of an upper stage engine steering hydraulic piston was slightly odd," SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk said on Twitter after the launch was scrubbed. "Standing down to investigate." Musk added that the issue was "99 per cent likely to be fine." "But that one per cent chance isn't worth rolling the dice. Better to wait a day." The next launch attempt is scheduled for 9:38 am tomo...

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Unveils New Rocket to Compete With SpaceX

13Sep By reutersNo Comments

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Unveils New Rocket to Compete With SpaceX

Jeff Bezos on Monday unveiled a heavy-lift reusable rocket expected to compete against Elon Musk's SpaceX and other companies for commercial satellite launches before the end of the decade. Bezos' Kent, Washington-based Blue Origin space company is designing two versions of the rocket, named New Glenn, a nod to John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and the last surviving member of NASA's original Mercury Seven astronauts. "New Glenn is designed to launch commercial satellites and to fly humans into space," Bezos, also the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, said in a statement emailed to Reuters on Monday. Both versions of New Glenn will use a first stage powered by seven methane-burning BE-4 engines. The company is building a launch site and test facility at Cape C...

Israel Satellite Owner Demand $50 Million or Free Flight From SpaceX

5Sep By reutersNo Comments

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Israel Satellite Owner Demand $50 Million or Free Flight From SpaceX

Israel's Space Communication Ltd said on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk's SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed last week by an explosion at SpaceX's Florida launch site. Officials of the Israeli company said in a conference call with reporters Sunday that Spacecom also could collect $205 million from Israel Aerospace Industries, which built the AMOS-6 satellite. SpaceX said in an email to Reuters that it does not disclose contract or insurance terms. The company is not public, and it has not said what insurance it had for the rocket or to cover launch pad damages beyond what was required by the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees commercial U.S. launches, for liability and damage to government property. SpaceX h...

Facebook Satellite Blast During Launch of SpaceX Rocket

2Sep By PriyankaNo Comments

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Facebook Satellite Blast During Launch of SpaceX Rocket

AFP- An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad during a test in Florida on Thursday, destroying a satellite that Facebook planned to use to beam high-speed internet to Africa. The blast at Cape Canaveral — though it caused no injuries — marks a setback for the California-based private space firm and its founder, internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, who wants to revolutionize the launch industry by making rocket components reusable. Loss of Falcon vehicle today during propellant fill operation. Originated around upper stage oxygen tank. Cause still unknown. More soon. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 1, 2016 Dramatic footage broadcast by ABC News showed the rocket burst into a roaring ball of flame amid what appeared to be a succession of blasts — sending its payl...

Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Blue Origin Successfully Re-flies, Lands Rocket

23Jan By reutersNo Comments

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Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Blue Origin Successfully Re-flies, Lands Rocket

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space transportation company, Blue Origin, successfully launched and landed a suborbital rocket for a second time, a key step in its quest to develop reusable boosters, the company said on Friday. The rocket that flew on Friday was the same vehicle that made a successful test launch and landing two months ago, demonstrating reuse, Bezos said in a statement posted on Blue Origin’s website 10 hours after the flight. “I’m a huge fan of rocket-powered vertical landing,” Bezos wrote. “To achieve our vision of millions of people living and working in space, we will need to build very large rocket boosters. And the vertical landing (system) scales extraordinarily well.” Fellow tech titan Elon Musk’s SpaceX in December successfully returned a rocket to a landing pad...

SpaceX made history, returned the company’s Falcon 9 rocket to Earth, landing it vertically

22Dec By NitishNo Comments

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SpaceX made history, returned the company’s Falcon 9 rocket to Earth, landing it vertically

On Monday night, Elon Musk and his aerospace company SpaceX made history, finally demonstrating their reusable rocket technology. Engineers successfully returned the company's Falcon 9 rocket to Earth, landing it vertically on a landing pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida -- just ten minutes after it blasted off for its jaunt to space and back. The rocket's second stage is still in the process of carrying 11 satellites into low Earth orbit for communications company ORBCOMM. The Falcon 9 first stage landing is confirmed. Second stage continuing nominally. pic.twitter.com/RX2QKSl0z7 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 22, 2015 All in all, it's an historic feat that promises to dramatically reshape the economics of the private space industry. If SpaceX can take this historic success to the...