Google called off its race to the moon weeks ago when it became clear no private explorer would complete the trip by the 31 March deadline. That won’t stop at least three teams from Israel, Japan and the US, who say their
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Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to former Nasa deputy chief technologist Jim Adams about everything from the Square Kilometre Array to the search for alien
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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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
The maiden flight of SpaceX’s larger and more powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will be a success if it doesn’t blow up on the launch pad, according to CEO Elon Musk. “This is a test mission, so we don’t want to set expectations of