It’s lift off for government plans to bolster UK space sector as new legal powers could soon send scientists into space February 20, 2017 New powers unveiled this week will allow British scientists to fly to the edge of space to conduct medical experiments. UK scientists could research and develop vaccines and antibiotics up in space, which grow differently where there is no gravity. The government said today that the powers will allow the launch of satellites from the [...]
Watch: The moment SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lands gracefully back on earth at historic Apollo 11 launchpad February 19, 2017 Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space from the location where the Apollo 11 mission blasted off taking man to the moon for the first time. The take-off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida followed an aborted attempt on Saturday due to technical reasons. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted [...]
Ambitious plans for UK commercial spaceflight just came a step closer to blast-off February 9, 2017 Ambitious plans to develop the UK's commercial spaceflight sector are nearing take-off with fresh multi-million pound funding promised by the government and draft legislation for the fledgling sector due "within weeks". Grants for businesses hoping to send tourists and satellites into space worth up to £10m have been announced by science minister Jo Johnson. "We want to [...]
Donald Trump’s travel ban provokes top tech bosses from Apple, Google, Uber, Twitter, Facebook and more to speak out on immigration January 29, 2017 The high profile bosses of several of the United States' biggest technology companies have spoken out after Donald Trump issued an executive order banning people from seven majority Muslim countries entering the US. Google founder Sergey Brin, himself a migrant from the former Soviet Union, attended a protest at San Francisco airport in a personal capacity, he told reporters. [...]
Why Elon Musk’s next SpaceX rocket launch is the most important yet January 13, 2017 For investors in the next generation of energy and in the emerging next-gen aerospace field, SpaceX’s story is a useful lesson. It has been a tough three months for SpaceX. The company has tremendous pressure after the failure of their launch last September. The orbital launch business is brutally competitive and with SpaceX trying to [...]
Oracle chief executive Safra Catz to take lead role in Donald Trump’s transition team December 15, 2016 US President-elect Donald Trump has added another business executive to his circle of advisers, with Oracle chief executive Safra Catz joining the executive committee of his transition team. Catz will remain at the California-based software giant, according to Reuters. She had been present at a meeting of technology business leaders earlier in the week at [...]
These two top tech bosses have been named advisers to Trump December 14, 2016 Donald Trump has added top tech firepower to a group of business leaders who will advise him on economic matters. Uber boss Travis Kalanick and the entrepreneur behind Tesla and Space X, Elon Musk, have joined the President-elect's Strategic and Policy Forum which will involve meeting with the President frequently. Read more: Move over Trump and [...]
Inmarsat’s share price flies up 10 per cent after releasing starry-eyed results November 3, 2016 Shares in satellite group Inmarsat reached for skies today after revealing better than expected third quarter results. The group's aviation division grew revenues by 10 per cent to $36m (£29m) having been boosted by mopping up contracts with some of Europe's largest airlines. These included an agreement with British Airways to provide wifi on its short haul [...]
Elon Musk’s totally nuts mission to Mars in nine crazy numbers September 28, 2016 Not content with pushing the boundaries for transport on earth with Tesla, prolific entrepreneur Elon Musk is taking his work on SpaceX a step further out of this world… literally. His ambitious plan to colonise Mars were revealed in not only a highly anticipated event but also a highly detailed one in which Musk laid out ambitious estimates of [...]
SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to build a “self-sustaining city” on Mars September 27, 2016 SpaceX founder Elon Musk has revealed plans to build a "self-sustaining city" on Mars and make humans a "multi-planetary species" within our lifetimes – and said manned missions to the Red Planet could begin as soon as 2022. Musk unveiled plans for an “interplanetary transport system” to colonise the planet during an address at the [...]