Browsing: Elon Musk

Elon Musk to test Falcon Heavy

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Elon Musk is planning a first test run late this (northern hemisphere) summer with what his SpaceX bills as the most powerful rocket in the world, a step toward sending two paying tourists around the moon late next year.

SpaceX pulls off first reused rocket mission

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX flew a reused rocket to space and back again, a key milestone to reducing launch costs and one day enabling people to live on other planets. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rumbled aloft, deposited a customer’s

Naspers affiliate Tencent buys 5% of Tesla

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Tesla has won a vote of confidence from Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings, whose purchase of a 5% stake boosts Elon Musk’s ambitions to get his mass-market Model 3 electric sedan to buyers this year. Tencent paid about US$1,8bn

With Tesla Model 3, Musk aims to crush rivals

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One year ago this week, Elon Musk took to a stage to unveil his most important vehicle yet: the US$35 000 Model 3. The electric five-seater accelerates as fast as the the best-selling luxury sport sedans in America

Musk needs $1bn more for Tesla Model 3

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Elon Musk needs to raise at least US$1,1bn more to bring his more affordable Model 3 to market. His believers, along with investors who buy into the vision of Tesla, could hardly be happier. After burning through cash in late 2016 and warning

Bezos seeks to commercialise space tourism

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The motto at billionaire Jeff Bezos’s rocket company is “gradatim ferociter”, Latin for “step by step, ferociously”. The Amazon.com founder sees applying that intensity toward making space travel more like hopping on an aeroplane

Musk’s moon mission a wake-up call for Nasa

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If all goes as planned, two tourists will crawl into a space capsule at the end of next year and blast off for a week-long trip to the moon and back. It’s the ultimate couple’s vacation, offered exclusively by