Up to 40 of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are expected to fall out of orbit thanks to some inopportune timing: The company launched the satellites directly into a solar storm. Here is what’s happening.
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The tech billionaire’s SpaceX satellites are catching heat in the country after Beijing complained that two satellites launched by the American aerospace manufacturer endangered Chinese astronauts.
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William Shatner, aka Captain Kirk who blasted into space earlier this week on one of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ rockets, say Prince William has “got the wrong idea” by saying that solving problems on Earth should be prioritized over tourist trips to space.
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Thanks to both Elon Musk’s Tesla shares and his majority stake in privately-held SpaceX, where he serves as CEO, Musk has accumulated vast wealth. Jeff Bezos is No. 2. Here’s the latest.
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Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the two wealthiest people on this planet, both want to be center stage when NASA returns astronauts to the moon. But NASA only has enough money for one of them, and it went with Musk’s SpaceX. That means Bezos’ Blue Origin is mad. Here’s what’s happening.
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Blue Origin filed a federal lawsuit Friday to challenge a NASA moon landing contract awarded solely to rival company SpaceX, upping the ante in an already tense standoff over the multibillion-dollar lunar lander program.
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The Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted Wednesday that the biographer Walter Isaacson will pen the book. He didn’t say when the book will be released.
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When NASA returns humans to the moon, SpaceX will build the vehicle to land the first woman and next man on the lunar surface. The US Government Accountability Office denied protests that were filed by Blue Origin and Dynetics on Friday.
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SpaceX has been targeting July for the first orbital flight of its gargantuan Starship system, which will be the most powerful launch vehicle ever created — and, the company hopes, will eventually take humans to Mars. But the company is not likely to hit that goal, CNN Business has learned.
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