30 March 2020
OneWeb files for bankruptcy over financial difficulties
... latency of 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...
08 December 2021
Japanese billionaire heads to the ISS for a 12 day stay
... tycoon tweeted on Wednesday morning. Fellow billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson all made breakthrough ... with him on a 2023 mission around the moon operated by Musk's SpaceX. He and his assistant will be the first private Japanese...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... his plans of turning a profit on suborbital tourism. Space startups mushroomed in the Mojave Desert. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, became a world-famous company. Until July 2011, when the Skolkovo space cluster was created, the...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... of the frontier of space. Nothing speaks to this more than the announcements by Richard Branson at Virgin and Elon Musk of SpaceX that they are funding hundreds of satellites, to extend the Internet backbone to low Earth orbit and...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... in 2010, when a private company first successfully launched a round-trip space flight. Commercial innovation in space Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies (“SpaceX”), founded in 2002, made history in December 2010 when it became the first (and...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... company to suspend operations until mid-2015. At the same time, in 2010, SpaceX, headed by ambitious CEO Elon Musk, presented its Falcon 9 launch rocket to the market. This rocket was created as the result of SpaceX’s participation...
