Space man? Virgin boss Richard Branson says he will go to space in ‘months not years’ May 26, 2018 Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson says he is in training to be an astronaut and his first trip to space could be in “months not years”. Talking on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme multi-millionaire Branson said that he was close to achieving his long-held ambition of space travel. Read more: Richard Branson says space [...]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 Block-5 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral May 12, 2018 Elon Musk’s fledgling aerospace company SpaceX has bounced back from its failure to launch this week, successfully launching its Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral yesterday. The Falcon 9, which is designed to eventually send NASA astronauts into space, was due to launch the day before, but an auto-abort was triggered one minute before [...]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX calls off Falcon 9 rocket launch at the last minute – but will try again today May 11, 2018 Elon Musk’s SpaceX programme will today retry the launch of a new rocket it hopes to will eventually carry astronauts into space, after last night sensationally pulling plans seconds before lift-off. The updated Falcon 9 rocket was due to take off shortly before 11pm UK time. But an auto-abort was triggered one minute before the [...]
Nasa has just launched its latest spacecraft to Mars, Insight, to measure ‘Marsquakes’ May 5, 2018 Nasa today launched a rocket headed to Mars with the Insight probe on board, in a mission to measure quakes on the red planet. The US space agency worked through the Californian fog at the Vandenberg Air Force Base to get the Atlas V rocket, which is carrying Nasa’s Insight probe, into the air at [...]
SpaceX has launched a rocket carrying a planet-hunting NASA telescope into space April 19, 2018 A NASA satellite has just catapulted into space with the help of Elon Musk’s SpaceX on the first-of-its-kind mission to discover planets beyond our solar system. NASA’s Tess [transiting exoplanet survey satellite] took off on Wednesday evening in Florida with the help of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite is on a mission to find [...]
SpaceX’s value on course to rocket to $24bn as fundraising targets $500m | City A.M. April 12, 2018 Elon Musk’s SpaceX is plotting a new round of funding which could see its value skyrocket to almost $24bn (£16.9bn). The company hopes to raise $507m in a move that would make it the third highest-valued private company in the US. Filings obtained by private analytics firm Lagniappe Labs showed that the company had authorised [...]
A luxury space hotel is being launched by Orion Span in 2021 – but it will cost you £6.8m for a 12-night stay April 6, 2018 US company Orion Span has announced plans to open a luxury space hotel in 2021, giving guests a feel for zero gravity and, you’d imagine, some pretty spectacular views. The Aurora Station, as it has been named, will house six people at any one time for a 12-day stay, with one or more of those [...]
Should Mark Zuckerberg step down? April 4, 2018 THE CEO HAS changed. That’s no longer a secret. For the first time in history, chief executives and business leaders are virtually expected to be in the public eye, communicating with the customer and offering opinions on social and political issues. This can have commercial benefits. People buy from other people: therefore if organisations leverage [...]
Canadian start-up looking to raise £35m for project to rival Elon Musk’s Hyperloop April 4, 2018 A Canadian startup has entered the futuristic transportation race by issuing a call to arms to raise $50m (£35m) to develop its own hyperloop technology. Bloomberg reported that TransPod is looking to raise funds to develop its own Hyperloop, a project first proposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX. Hyperloop envisages passengers propelled in pods [...]
Tesla billionaire Elon Musk deletes his brands from Facebook as Cambridge Analytica offices raided March 24, 2018 Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has deleted his Tesla and SpaceX brands from Facebook, following accusations that data firm Cambridge Analytica used data harvested from the social networking site to influence elections. In response to Twitter users calling for people to delete Facebook, Musk tweeted: “What’s Facebook?” When challenged to remove his own brands’ pages from [...]