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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Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car. The late 1800s saw a flurry of innovation by hundreds of companies battling to deliver on the promise of fast, efficient and reasonably priced mechanical transportation. Ford later came
Late last week, two Silicon Valley powers got into an online scrum over a technology that is neither developing nor likely to take off anytime soon. On his grand tour of Asia, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi won
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a customer payload plus its own broadband demonstration satellites in the company’s first mission since millions tuned in earlier this month for its Falcon Heavy
Elon Musk’s SpaceX moved closer to another orbital frontier as regulators advanced its application to launch a low-orbit constellation of satellites and join a jostling field of operators trying to cash in on
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Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg are back for another packed episode of technology news. In the show this week, Elon Musk puts a Tesla in space – and why it was such a monumental achievement
“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
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has held a press conference to discuss the successful debut test flight of Falcon Heavy. The company on Tuesday night, South African time, launched the Falcon Heavy, with a cherry-red