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Starship prototype SN10 comes in for a landing. SpaceX It'll be at least two more months before Elon Musk's Starship gets the green light to blast off for space.  The Federal Aviation Administration said this week that it'll need the additional time to work through a key environmental review before…

extremely enormous — SpaceX founder points out that space is "extremely enormous," satellites "very tiny." Richard Waters, Financial Times - Dec 29, 2021 9:49 pm UTC Enlarge / A SpaceX rocket ready for launch. Trevor Mahlmann Elon Musk has hit back at criticism that his company’s Starlink satellites are hogging…

Loading... Home Money Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 05:16 AM MYT A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on the launch pad as it is prepared to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, October 28, 2021. ― Reuters pic LOS…

Elon Musk says that future Starships – or at least certain Starship variants – are being upgraded with 50% more Raptor engines and stretched propellant tanks. This will increase engines from 6 to 9. SpaceX will also increase fuel to about 300 tons. This will enable a larger Starship and…

Others question the purpose of space tourism too. “These are technological achievements, there’s no doubt about that,” says Kathryn Denning, an anthropologist and space ethics researcher at York University in Toronto. But, she suggests, “their most significant achievement is the domination of the airwaves and television coverage.” So far, tickets…

Dodge this — A formal complaint to the UN under space treaties says the US is responsible. John Timmer - Dec 28, 2021 6:26 pm UTC Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in May 2021 carrying the…

HONG KONG—China filed a complaint to the United Nations, saying Chinese astronauts aboard the country’s space station had to take emergency action earlier this year to avoid colliding with satellites launched by SpaceX, the company founded by billionaire Elon Musk. The two Starlink satellites came close to the space station…

Musk at the Tesla plant in eastern Germany. Photo: Patrick Pleul / AFP You could call it an invasion of space—in outer space. Authorities in China have lashed out after satellites launched by Elon Musk’s Starlink programme nearly collided with the country’s space station twice this past year.  In an…

Elon Musk says Starship, Starlink projects create steep burdens for his space company, which aims to reduce launch costs and build a big internet business Read More