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San Francisco: Billionaire Elon Musk’s space venture SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites — the sixth launch for the programme in July alone, and the company’s 33rd launch of 2022. The satellites were launched on Sunday at 9.38 a.m. from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the eighth […]

San Francisco: Electric car-maker Tesla has been sued by former employees who were sacked in the ongoing mass layoff at the company, accusing it of violating federal law in the US. John Lynch and Daxton Hartsfield, who worked at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada state, said in the lawsuit that they were among “more than 500” […]

San Francisco: SpaceX which fired employees who wrote a letter criticising Elon Musk’s behaviour in the public sphere has likely violated US labour laws. According to The Verge, labour lawyers now say the firings may have violated US labour law. The fired employees may also approach the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to sue SpaceX. […]

San Francisco: SpaceX employees have slammed their CEO Elon Musk’s behaviour in the public sphere that is a “frequent source of distraction and embarrassment” for them. In an open letter addressed to company executives, the employees called out Musk’s behaviour on Twitter, regarding allegations of sexual harassment against him by a female company employee last […]

San Francisco: US President Joe Biden has wished Elon Musk “lots of luck” for his trip to the Moon, as the Tesla CEO expressed “super bad feeling” about the economy and decided to cut its workforce by 10 per cent. When asked about Musk’s pessimistic attitude toward the economy during a press briefing at the […]

New Delhi: Seeking to further increase private participation, the government will soon unveil a new space policy that could see the rise of India’s own “SpaceX-like ventures”, Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood has said. In an interview to PTI, the government’s top science advisor said consultations have taken place and the final version of […]

San Francisco: Elon Musk on Tuesday once again criticised US President Joe Biden, saying that he will vote for the Republican Party in midterm elections in November as Democrats are attacking him and his companies from all sides. Earlier this month, he publicly revealed for the first time on Twitter that he will now vote […]

San Francisco: Amid the bitter $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk has found himself in another controversy as a media report claimed on Friday that his spacecraft company SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 to make sure she didn’t sue the company after Musk allegedly “propositioned her for sex”. The alleged victim, working as a […]

Washington: American billionaire Elon Musk, the founder of electric car-making company Tesla and spacecraft manufacturing company SpaceX, intends to quintuple Twitter’s annual revenue to USD 26.4 billion by 2028, media reported on Saturday. The New York Times cited Musk’s pitch deck presented to investors as saying that he would quintuple Twitter’s revenue to USD 26.4 […]

Cape Canaveral: SpaceX brought four astronauts home with a midnight splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, capping the busiest month yet for Elon Musk’s taxi service. Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome back to Earth, @Astro_Raja, @astroMarshburn, @astro_matthias, and @astro_kayla! pic.twitter.com/zgoX2CITQh — SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 6, 2022 The three U.S. astronauts and one […]

Hyderabad: Amul India never fails to impress the internet users with its quirky doodles on important and trending topics such as celebrity weddings, sports, business, politics and even wars. This time, it has made a witty topical advertisement on tech billionaire Elon Musk, after he bought a 100 per cent stake in Twitter for 44 […]

New York: Shares of Twitter, arguably the worlds most influential social media platform, jumped after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is nearing a deal with Elon Musk, the worlds richest man, and that the announcement could come as soon as Monday night. Earlier this month, Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 […]

Hyderabad: SpaceX Founder Elon Musk has been investing in micro-blogging platform Twitter. Currently, he has a little over nine per cent. Despite this, he is still a minority stakeholder. Musk said the listed Twitter should go the private way to support free speech. He offered to buy 100 per cent of it for $54.20 per […]

When the world’s richest person goes shopping, one would expect that all the things that are desired would find a place in the shopping cart. But it’s a delicious irony that the world appears to be conspiring against its richest person, Elon Musk, to prevent him from buying Twitter, the popular microblogging site. It only […]

San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said that the Board of Twitter should be more concerned about other potential bidders than him who has made a fair offer to acquire 100 per cent of the micro-blogging platform for $43 billion. He was reacting to a follower who said that the Twitter […]

New Delhi: Spacetech startup Pixxel has successfully launched its first fully-fledged commercial satellite called ‘Shakuntala’ with Elon Musk-run SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket. Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/98AatbJNTO — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 1, 2022 Being Pixxel’s first fully-fledged satellite, ‘Shakuntala’ hosts one of the highest resolution hyperspectral commercial cameras ever flown to space, bringing it one step closer to building […]

Pune: Four years back, 23-year-old Pune-based software professional Pranay Pathole, who was then an engineering student, was on cloud nine after his “role model” Tesla CEO Elon Musk replied to his tweet on automatic windscreen wipers. Since then, Pathole, who now works with the Tata Consultancy Services, has been in regular touch with Musk via […]

The ISS is built with the cooperation of scientists from five international space agencies — NASA of the US, Roscosmos of Russia, JAXA of Japan, Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency. Each agency has a role to play and a share in the upkeep of the ISS. Both in terms of expense and effort, it is not a feat that a single country can support

San Francisco: Elon Musk’s space venture SpaceX has successfully launched 48 new Starlink satellites into orbit. The new batch of satellites was launched on Wednesday aboard a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 8.45 a.m., the company said. “Another 48 Starlinks just reached orbit,” Musk said in a […]

San Francisco: Elon Musk’s space venture SpaceX has successfully launched 47 Starlink satellites. The Starlink 4-9 mission lifted off at 9.25 a.m. EST (6.25 a.m. PST) on March 3 from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and was SpaceX’s ninth of a planned 52 launches this year, TechCrunch reported. The mission, flown by […]