SpaceX’s latest launch, due to be launched on Tuesday morning South African time and billed by Elon Musk as the company’s most difficult ever, has the potential to be extraordinary for a whole host of reasons.
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Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has announced he is going to send a spaceship to the moon.
Amazon.com plans to launch thousands of satellites to provide broadband Internet access around the globe.
Jeff Bezos’s rocket company, Blue Origin, has launched Nasa experiments into space on a brief test flight. The New Shepard rocket blasted off from west Texas, hoisting a capsule containing the experiments.
The stars are aligning for Tuesday to be quite the bookend to a transformational year for commercial space exploration.
“It seems surreal to me,” said Elon Musk, proprietor of SpaceX, and for once he was understating things. On Tuesday, his company blasted a 70 metre rocket into orbit, returned its two side boosters to Earth
Think billionaires and outer space and three names quickly come to mind: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. It turns out, though, that they have plenty of company. There are 13 others among the world’s 500
More than two-and-a-half years after the fatal break-up of Virgin Galactic’s experimental rocket plane, Richard Branson is poised to revive powered test flights as the billionaire entrepreneur targets his first journey into space by the middle
Internet billionaire and aspiring rocket man Jeff Bezos said he sells US$1bn/year in Amazon.com stock to fund Blue Origin, the company fuelling his dream of sending people into space. “My business model right now for
If the rocket Elon Musk’s SpaceX expects to launch next week looks familiar, that’s because it is. The Falcon 9 rocket slated to take off from Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida