Tesla chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday took to Twitter to promise a US$100-million prize for development of the “best” technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions.
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Elon Musk, the outspoken South African-born entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in discussions with investors to raise another round of funding and seeks to double its valuation to as much as $92-billion, according to a report.
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SpaceX’s Starship prototype exploded while attempting to land on Wednesday after an otherwise successful test launch from the company’s rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas, live video of the flight showed.
Jeff Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, will take the first woman to the moon’s surface, he said, as Nasa nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024.
Elon Musk’s year of dizzying ascents hit a new apex Monday as the Tesla co-founder passed Bill Gates to become the world’s second richest person.
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Monday, Nasa’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX won a $149-million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the US Space Development Agency said on Monday.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has raised $1.9-billion in new funding, according to a regulatory filing. This would be the largest single fundraising round to date by SpaceX, according to PitchBook data.