June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... models used by its competitors which literally lay out critical paths months or years ahead of time. As well as SpaceX, however, there are literally hundreds of new space startups addressing a multitude of industries and disrupting the traditional...
03 June 2016
Elon Musk: Mars mission architecture to be unveiled in September
...2018. The mission is called Red Dragon. On April 27, SpaceX announced that it will work together with NASA on the mission,...its Falcon Heavy contract for a later mission. According to Musk, SpaceX plans to keep up its high launch rate (three Falcon 9 ...
02 September 2016
Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 satellite explode during testing
... Xinwei Technology Group. The deal was contingent on Amos-6 performing successfully after the planned September launch. SpaceX was planning up to nine Falcon 9 launches by the end of 2016, all of which will now be delayed. Iridium is immediately...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
... months. Meanwhile, NASA announced it has assigned astronaut Shannon Walker to the first operational crewed flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Walker will join NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... to deploy nearly 650 satellites for OneWeb’s global Internet network; a figure 41, 000 short of the number of satellites SpaceX want to ultimately launch as part of Elon Musk’s Starlink endeavour. And it is a couple of thousand less than the 3,236...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
...spaceflight, this type of thinking was behind the founding of SpaceX, started by Elon Musk with an initial goal of reducing...the inflection point. Aiming at that target drove much of SpaceX’s functioning for its first several years and remains a ...
