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Elon Musk’s plans for futuristic subway replaced by parking spaces SpaceX

Elon Musk’s plans for futuristic subway replaced by parking spaces

SpaceX had plans to create a futuristic transportation system called the Hyperloop. Those plans have hit an indefinite pause. Plans for the subway of the future involved levitating pods across tubes of tunnels under found Elon Musk’s futuristic transportation venture, the Boring Company. But as reported by Bloomberg, a prototype…
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November 3, 2022
Musk’s California Hyperloop Prototype Will Become a Parking Lot SpaceX

Musk’s California Hyperloop Prototype Will Become a Parking Lot

The city council confirmed to Bloomberg that the former tunnel will become parking spots. Image: Robyn Beck-Pool (Getty Images) Elon Musk’s hyperloop—the sci-fi-esque subway of the future that definitely will not flood—is apparently hitting a speed bump. The Hyperloop’s inaugural tunnel, a prototype built in Hawthorne, California, has been torn…
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November 3, 2022
NASA Is Studying a Private Mission to Boost Hubble’s Orbit. Is It Worth the Risk? SpaceX

NASA Is Studying a Private Mission to Boost Hubble’s Orbit. Is It Worth the Risk?

For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has been breaking new ground in astronomy, cosmology and planetary science, delivering results that few if any other facilities can match—let alone exceed. No other orbital observatory has managed such consistent high performance for so many years, thanks to a series…
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November 3, 2022
Falcon Heavy ‘simply outstanding’ on SpaceX’s first launch to geosynch orbit SpaceX

Falcon Heavy ‘simply outstanding’ on SpaceX’s first launch to geosynch orbit

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy climbs into space from Kennedy Space Center on the U.S. Space Force’s USSF-44 mission. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography The U.S. Space Force confirmed Tuesday that a Falcon Heavy launcher placed two main payloads and at least three smaller rideshare satellites directly into…
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November 1, 2022
Elon Musk Says Twitter to Charge $8 per Month for Blue Checkmark Verification — Plans to Reward Content Creators SpaceX

Elon Musk Says Twitter to Charge $8 per Month for Blue Checkmark Verification — Plans to Reward Content Creators

Tesla, Spacex, and Twitter boss Elon Musk has decided to charge $8 per month for users of the social media platform to have a blue checkmark. “This will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators,” Musk explained, adding that “it is the only way to defeat the…
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November 1, 2022