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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) designs, manufactures and launches the world's most advanced rockets and spacecraft. Based in California, it was founded in 2002 by former PayPal entrepreneur Elon Musk with the aim of revolutionising space transportation.
There are so many areas in exploration in which the two sides can cooperate without compromising national security or interests.
Countries and companies need to clean up their act as hi-tech debris increasingly poses a risk to satellites, spacecraft and astronauts.
- Elon Musk posted a meme on his social media platform about Ukraine’s president
- Billionaire’s past statements and actions during war have sometimes angered Kyiv
The project is backed by the Shanghai municipal government and will eventually comprise more than 12,000 satellites in low earth orbit.
Billionaire Elon Musk visited Eagle Pass, Texas, to meet with local politicians and law enforcement and obtain what he called an ‘unfiltered’ view of the situation.
Erdogan’s lobbying efforts follow those by French President Emmanuel Macron, who met Musk in June, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
The child, who goes by the nickname Tau, has siblings X Æ A-Xii, or X, and Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, who goes by Y.
Elon Musk’s company must complete 63 fixes to prevent a repeat of the failures that saw the powerful rocket disintegrate in a ball of fire during a test launch.
The tech billionaire’s admission drew a furious response from Kyiv and raises questions about whether the satellite-based internet service can be counted on.
Galactic Energy’s Ceres-1 rocket lifted off near Shandong province, sending four satellites into orbit as part of Internet of Things constellation.
Nasa has released preliminary scans from pollution-monitoring instrument TEMPO taken during a recent trial. TEMPO orbits the Earth and takes scans while measuring levels of ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and other gases.
The US Justice Department brought a lawsuit against the Elon Musk-owned company that cited a June 2020 post on X, formerly Twitter, by Musk that said: ‘US law requires at least a green card to be hired at SpaceX.’
The country’s lunar mission comes after it privatised space launches and is looking to open the sector to foreign investment
The SpaceX boss was nervous that Russia saw the provision of Starlink internet services as enabling Kyiv’s war effort, a US defence official said.
It’s his second trip to Asia this year after he visited China for the first time in three years, and declared he would expand his business in the world’s largest market for electric vehicles.
New cooling system for high-energy laser weapons could change the face of battle, researchers say
China’s satellites likely to be placed in orbits lower than US counterparts ‘to minimise collision risks and maintain safe distances’, expert writes in CPPCC Daily
The Lingxi-03 and its bendable solar panels are developed by the Beijing-based start-up GalaxySpace.
In its rebranding efforts, X – formerly known as Twitter – abruptly took over one of its user accounts with the handle @x. Photographer Gene X Hwang was offered ‘X merch and an exclusive visit to X’s HQ’.
Starlink, which is operated by Musk’s SpaceX, will begin by providing its services to schools and higher education institutions.
Chinese scientists are celebrating after the projectile blasted off successfully from the Gobi desert at 9am on Tuesday.
China’s economy is forecast to hit US$57 trillion by 2075, compared to India’s US$52.5 trillion and the United States’ US$51.5 trillion, according to projections from Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs.
US billionaire Elon Musk said he has confidence in China’s capabilities in AI, but did not address the impact of Washington’s export restrictions that have hobbled China’s ability to develop AI.
Amid tensions with Russia and delays to next-generation vessels, the continent has found itself with no way to independently launch heavy space missions.
The service disruptions cropped up a day after Twitter began requiring people to log on to the service to view tweets and profiles – a change in its long-time practice to allow all comers to peruse the chatter.
SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Saturday towards its destination 1.5 million km away, the Webb Space Telescope’s neighbourhood.
Twitter owner Musk tweeted on Tuesday he was up for a cage match in Las Vegas with Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, who has trained in jiu-jitsu.
The two men have baited each other for years with opposing views on everything from politics to artificial intelligence.
The US$540 million satellite aims to offer connection speeds of 150 gigabytes per second. Jakarta hopes it will connect 90,000 schools, and 40,000 hospitals and government buildings, to the internet when it comes online next year.
The Neuralink co-founder said the company plans to implant a tetraplegic or paraplegic patient in a clinical trial later this year, after receiving the go-ahead last month from the US Food and Drug Administration.
Kairan Quazi, soon to be the youngest person to graduate from Santa Clara University’s school of engineering, will be a software engineer at Starlink.
SpaceX’s satellite services have provided crucial communications for Ukraine’s military and kept civilians connected during Russia’s invasion.
