He’s the Silicon Valley Übermensch, the maverick boss of Tesla and SpaceX who wants us to colonise Mars and who can wipe out billions of dollars with a single tweet. So what’s not to love?It’s interesting whenever Elon Musk’s name comes up and people b…
イーロン・マスク曰く、ジェフ・ベゾスは SpaceX を訴える仕事に専念するため Amazon CEO を引退した
イーロン・マスク氏がジェフ・ベゾス氏について、SpaceX を相手取った訴訟を提起する仕事をフルタイムでするために Amazon CEO を引退したようだと批判している (マスク氏のツイート、 The Verge の記事、 Neowin の記事、 Ars Technica の記事)。
この発言は、Amazon が SpaceX の Gen2 Starlink 衛星計画を却下するよう米連邦通信委員会 (FCC) に要求したとの報道を受けたものだ。SpaceX は Gen2 計画の修正案で、 2 つの…
After ‘Sideways’ Launch, Space Startup Astra’s Rocket Fails to Reach Orbit
California Bay Area space startup Astra “attempted its third orbital test flight today, sending its two-stage Launch Vehicle 0006 skyward from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Alaska’s Kodiak Island at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT),” reports Space.com.
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China Researching Challenges of Kilometer-Scale Ultra-large Spacecraft
Hmmmmmm shares a report from SpaceNews: The National Natural Science Foundation of China has outlined a five-year project for researchers to study the assembly of ultra-large spacecraft. Scientists are being directed to meet the “urgent need” for the c…
Titan’s Strange Chemical World Gets Simulated in Tiny Tubes
Eric Niiler writes via Wired: The landscape of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is both familiar and strange. Like Earth, Titan has rivers, lakes, clouds, and falling raindrops, as well as mountains of ice and a thick atmosphere. But instead of water, Tit…
Watch Blue Origin launch a test of NASA’s future Moon landing tech live
Blue Origin’s last launch was its landmark first human flight, carrying Jeff Bezos, his brother, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen to suborbital space. Today, it’s flying New Shepard again — without any people on board, this time, but with a key payload from NASA that will test technologies the agency is using to develop a […]
Dawn Aerospace conducts five flights of its suborbital spaceplane
While the rocket launch sector is quickly becoming crowded, the same can’t be said for companies developing suborbital spaceplanes. This means there’s plenty of room to grow for startups like Dawn Aerospace, which has now completed five test flights of its Mk-II Aurora spaceplane that is designed to fly up to 60 miles above the […]
Peter Beck on Rocket Lab’s public listing debut, space SPACs and the Neutron rocket
Peter Beck’s earliest memory is standing outside with his father in his hometown of Invercargill, New Zealand, looking up at the stars and being told that there could very well be people on planets orbiting those stars looking right back at him. “For a three or four year old, that was a mind-blowing thing that […]
Astroscale successfully demos in-space capture-and-release system to clear orbital debris
Astroscale hit a major milestone Wednesday, when its space junk removal demo satellite that’s currently in orbit successfully captured and released a client spacecraft using a magnetic system. The End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission was launched in March, with the goal of validating the company’s orbital debris removal tech. The demonstrator package, which was […]
Ispace unveils bigger moon lander capable of surviving lunar nights
Ispace, a Japanese space startup that aims to lead the development of a lunar economy, has unveiled its design for a large lander that could go to the moon as early as 2024. Tokyo-based ispace said this next-gen lander, dubbed Series 2, would be used on the company’s third planned moon mission. The lander is […]