When Elon Musk’s SpaceX heaved two communications satellites aloft last week, he joined a space race that’s foiled plenty of other dreamers. Billions of dollars have vanished in the quest to provide Internet service from low-earth
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An elated Elon Musk pulled off another seemingly impossible feat on Tuesday when SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful rocket in 45 years, then flew two of its spent boosters back to the Florida coast
Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to surround the Earth with thousands of Internet-beaming satellites is encountering turbulence from regulators concerned about interference with competing systems. SpaceX, the rocket start-up Musk
The forecast for the next mission by Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is cloudy — and not just because of the weather. The company is slated for its 13th Falcon 9 launch of the year on Thursday, from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center
Not long ago, SpaceX founder Elon Musk cracked what he once labelled a monopoly for US defence department space launches, successfully breaking into a business that was dominated by United Launch Alliance. The DOD’s appetite
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year as it continues to work with Nasa for a planned crewed mission to the International Space Station. The passengers
Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched its second rocket in as many months on Sunday, bringing it a 10th of the way to its goal of deploying 20 to 24 rockets this year. The Falcon 9 rocket that launched SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft
Boeing once helped the US beat the Soviet Union in the race to the moon. Now the company intends to go toe-to-toe with newcomers such as billionaire Elon Musk in the next era of space exploration and
It’s difficult to imagine now, in the age of mass global travel, that building an aeroplane to carry hundreds of people at a time was once seen as a huge risk. But as the world’s first wide-body airliner, the Boeing 747 went on to change not only aviation but the
The aircraft industry is expecting a seven-fold increase in air traffic by 2050, and a four-fold increase in greenhouse gas emissions unless fundamental changes are made. But just how “fundamental” will those changes need to be