30 May 2023
Virgin Orbit cuts its losses and ceases operations
... flight in 2021, just nine days ahead of his billionaire rival, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. Virgin Orbit spun out on its own from Galactic in 2017 and, in late 2021, rode a wave of investor...
26 February 2018
Why do we go into space?
... scattered across a thousand platforms and publications. 2211.world hopes to give them a home. From Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos building their own spacecraft, to NASA, ESA, and the Chinese planning settlements and villages on the Moon...
01 October 2019
Apollo 11 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... “an insight into the legacy of Apollo”, including how it inspired such modern space visionaries as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. The book is well-produced, with colour photos and detailed line drawings based on original NASA documents...
12 December 2019
Blue Origin's New Shepard makes 12th test flight
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched the 12th crewless test of its New Shepard rocket on Wednesday on a successful up-and-down ...
30 March 2020
OneWeb files for bankruptcy over financial difficulties
... 32 ms. However the company faces stiff competition from competitors such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper initiative. Musk has recently been granted a license by the FCC for the use of up to a million...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
.... Is swathing Earth with an ever-increasing large number of satellites in a megaconstellation, such as those planned by SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s proposed Project Kuiper, the answer to the world’s internet access problems? It depends on who you ask...
