Elon Musk’s self-proclaimed persona as a top-class gamer took a thrashing on Friday, as video game enthusiasts mercilessly mocked the tech billionaire following a disastrous performance in a live stream. The uproar – tinged with hilarity – left the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX battling the humiliating accusation that he was faking it as a…
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered SpaceX to carry out a formal investigation into the breakup of its Starship rocket during a test flight Thursday that sent a spectacular shower of flaming debris plummeting back to Earth, the agency announced Friday. “The FAA is requiring SpaceX to perform a mishap investigation into the loss of…
Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, often rivals in both business and space exploration, appear to have reconciled. The world’s two richest men publicly exchanged congratulatory messages this week, following the rocket launches by their respective companies, Blue Origin (Bezos) and SpaceX (Musk). This follows a recent dinner they shared at Mar-a-Lago.Musk initiated the…
Published on Jan 17, 2025 09:31 AM IST SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight. However, the top section of the rocket was lost, SpaceX succeeded in another complicated maneuver, bringing the spacecraft’s Super Heavy lower portion back down to Earth and catching it in midair using giant mechanical arms. Explaining…
SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship mega rocket on its seventh test flight Thursday, successfully “catching” the first stage booster back at its firing stand but losing its new-generation Starship upper stage spacecraft, which apparently broke up as it was reaching space. Telemetry from the Starship froze eight minutes and 27 seconds after launch…
Topline SpaceX launched Starship on Thursday for a seventh test flight, after weather concerns pushed back an experiment that will feature the spacecraft’s first payload deployment test, and while it successfully caught the Super Heavy Booster, SpaceX lost communication with Starship shortly after. SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship stands ready for a test flight from Starbase…
Jeff Bezos just scored a huge win: Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit. Now it’s the turn of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is set to launch Starship for the seventh time later Thursday. The two billionaires are locked in a race to dominate the global space industry. Ahead of the most…
In This Story The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) smacked billionaire Elon Musk with new charges related to his 2022 Twitter acquisition, just days before a friendlier federal administration takes over. Netflix, Walmart, and Mastercard are stocks to buy in a wobbly market, analyst says The agency on Tuesday accused Musk of underpaying investors in…
The GuoWang internet satellites, launched this week as the first step in China’s answer to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, featured notable differences from their US counterpart. Not only are the Chinese satellites “huge” and “heavyweight”, but they were also arranged inside the launch vehicle in a unique double-decker type of layout, according to the China Academy…
China has launched the first satellites for its GuoWang megaconstellation, intensifying the race for space-based broadband internet services both domestically and internationally. A group of satellites lifted off aboard a Long March-5B rocket coupled with the Yuanzheng-2 upper stage from southern China’s Wenchang spaceport at 6pm and later reached their designated low-Earth orbit, according to…