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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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As a non-Russian communications system, the Starlink satellite internet service has a "high" probability of being targeted, Musk said.
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Washington: NASA on Tuesday awarded three additional missions to the International Space Station (ISS) to Elon Musk led SpaceX company for a $3.49 billion contract. The contract for Crew-7, Crew-8, and Crew-9 is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap), which follows the US space agency’s notice of intent to procure the flights in […]
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San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday shared a hilarious meme comparing The Pirate Bay with other OTT platforms on Twitter. Musk shared the famous “distracted boyfriend” meme to show how audiences prefer the Pirate Bay site over other expensive OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney plus Hotstar, HBO max and […]
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San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has slammed the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), saying the agency is targeting him and stifling his free speech. Musk’s attorneys made the allegations in a letter to Judge Alison Nathan, who oversaw the 2018 settlement with the SEC over a controversial tweet by Musk that […]
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California: A geomagnetic storm has knocked 40 SpaceX satellites on February 4, after they were launched to a low deployment orbit, 130 miles above Earth. Dramatic visuals of the space debris are circulating on the internet of a satellite that “lived fast and died very young,” astronomy news website Space.com reported. American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX […]
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The escalation speed and severity of the storm caused atmospheric drag to increase up to 50 per cent higher than during previous launches, the company said in a statement late on Tuesday.
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A hefty chunk of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into the far side of the Moon (not visible from the Earth) in a fiery explosion at about 8,000 kms per hour speed.
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San Francisco: Elon Musk-owned private rocket company SpaceX plans to launch 52 missions in 2022, a NASA safety panel revealed. According to CNBC, during a meeting of a key NASA agency oversight committee panel member Sandra Magnus said that the private company is targeting “an ambitious 52 launch manifest” for 2022. “NASA and SpaceX will […]
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By Martand Jha Of late, news from the arena of outer space has caught the attention of many space enthusiasts. India’s first dedicated space think-tank ‘Spaceport Sarabhai’ was launched by a bunch of entrepreneurs and lawyers who want to create a space for themselves in a system that is still largely governed by ISRO. Across […]
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In July 2021, Musk said that laser links in orbit can reduce long-distance latency by as much as 50 per cent, due to the higher speed of light in vacuum and shorter path than undersea fiber.
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Washington: Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 48 Starlink internet satellites and two BlackSky satellites as a payload from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. “Liftoff!” SpaceX said from its official Twitter account, featuring a video of the rocket’s initial launch phase on Thursday.The Falcon 9 rocket, […]
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The company is targeting January or February for its first Starship orbital launch attempt, SpaceX founder and CEO Musk said on Wednesday.
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Washington: NASA and the Elon Musk-owned private rocket company SpaceX have finally launched four more astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station (ISS). After a number of delays, the launch finally took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 9.03 p.m. on Wednesday, launching on top of one of SpaceX’s […]
