Elon Musk’s “next great idea” is to develop a vertical takeoff and landing electric plane after Tesla, SpaceX and Hyperloop February 5, 2016 Elon Musk has new big plans: After out-there projects like SpaceX’s reusable rocket and Hyperloop, the billionaire tech titan wants to turn his attention to electric aeroplanes. The technology is basically non-existent commercially today, but that could all be about to change. Speaking at a Hyperloop event in Texas, the Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was [...]
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk win 2015 Luddite Award for their “alarmist” warnings about artificial intelligence January 20, 2016 Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have just “won” the 2015 Luddite Award for their warnings about artificial intelligence. A world-renowned physicist and the entrepreneur behind ventures like Tesla and SpaceX, neither of the two are exactly what you might call afraid of technology. But the worries the two have expressed on the future of AI [...]
SpaceX won’t be using its reusable rocket again – here’s why December 22, 2015 Early this morning, SpaceX managed to re-land a rocket for the first time ever, paving the way for a new generation of reusable rockets. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Cape Carnaveral in Florida, and after shooting up into the sky to deliver a series of commercial satellites to the International Space Station, it [...]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully returns its Falcon 9 rocket after sending it to space in breakthrough for reusable rockets December 22, 2015 Activist billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX has sent its Falcon 9 rocket into space and back again – an important breakthrough for reusable rockets in space exploration. The first stage of the Falcon 9 gently touched down at Cape Canaveral 10 minutes after lift-off, to employees’ cheers. This was SpaceX’s first flight since June, when one of its rockets exploded [...]
SpaceX is about to launch its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket – but will it be successful this time? December 21, 2015 Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting ready to launch its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station, after a series of delays. It's the first time the rocket is being used in a mission, and will be a crucial test for SpaceX – when it launched the older version of the Falcon 9 in [...]
Top business books of 2015: From Walter Isaacson’s Innovators to The Untold Story of Bitcoin, here’s your Christmas reading list December 19, 2015 It’s been another roller-coaster year for businesses in 2015. From plummeting oil prices to an impending interest rate hike, authors have done their best to educate their readership on… well, pretty much anything. Here are our favourite reads of 2015. You’ll find a little bit of everything for everyone – from advice on time-management to inspiration on becoming the next big entrepreneur. Innovators: [...]
Hyperloop: Elon Musk’s crazy transport system just came a step closer to its 2020 launch goal as it’s about to be tested in Nevada December 9, 2015 Hyperloop, the ambitious (some may say crazy) project to build a high speed transport system that would shoot people from A to B in pods travelling almost at the speed of sound, will begin testing its technology as soon as spring 2016. The brainchild of Tesla and Space X entrepreneur Elon Musk, work will begin on testing [...]
Nasa and Orbital ATK set to launch a Cyngus rocket to International Space Station today – but will the latest private-sector space mission succeed? December 4, 2015 The latest in a series of private-sector space missions will be launched today, in another effort to restock the International Space Station (ISS). Space technology company Orbital ATK is due to launch a Cyngus rocket packed with supplies from Cape Canaveral in Florida just after 5.30pm UK time. The craft will deliver 3.5kg of food, clothes, [...]
Debris from a US SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has washed up on Britain’s shores November 27, 2015 Part of a rocket that took off from the US earlier this year has travelled across the Atlantic and ended up on the shores of the Scilly Isles. Bearing markings of the American flag, the 10m by 4m piece of metal has been identified as belonging to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which blew up [...]
Nasa knocks Boeing out of race for $3.5bn International Space Station contract, leaving SpaceX, Orbital and Sierra Nevada to fight it out November 6, 2015 Boeing has fallen out of the race to win Nasa's $3.5bn (£2.3bn) contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). The Chicago-based company confirmed yesterday that its participation in the contest had come to an end. "We received some information as part of the letter we received from NASA this morning but until [...]