Tag: Elon Musk
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A million people on Mars? Explaining Elon Musk’s bold plan to colonize the Red Planet
Musk’s goal is to send 1 million settlers to Mars within 100 years. Photo: SpaceX. Colonies on Mars are no longer restricted to the pages of sci-fi classics and the imagination of ambitious space geeks. These settlements are not only possible, they are moving closer to reality with each passing year, and this week SpaceX founder and…
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Reality check: Elon Musk’s Mars plan will cost more, take longer. What else is new?
An artist’s conception shows a traveler looking out at Mars through the window of SpaceX’s future passenger spaceship. (Credit: SpaceX) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In order to make the figures work for Elon Musk’s plan to put settlers on Mars, SpaceX will have to build boosters and interplanetary spaceships for less than the price of a Boeing 777x…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk makes the big pitch for his decades-long plan to colonize Mars
SpaceX founder Elon Musk presents his vision for sending settlers to Mars. (Credit: SpaceX) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made some ambitious sales pitches in his career, but today’s big reveal about his plan to transport a million settlers to Mars over the next few decades has to be the topper. MORE COVERAGE: A million…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk announces vision for colonizing Mars
Elon Musk presents his Mars colonization vision at the International Astronautical Congress on Tuesday in Guadalajara, Mexico. Credit: Tim Dodd/Spaceflight Now/www.timdoddphotography.com SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk on Tuesday outlined an ambition to send humans to Mars with methane-fueled reusable spaceships and the largest rocket ever built, an effort he said will likely require government support…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk tweets sneak peeks at interplanetary transport system for Mars
SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engine undergoes its first test firing. (Credit: Elon Musk via Twitter) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In advance of this week’s big reveal, SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, is dropping hints about the scale of his plans to send colonists to Mars. Musk is scheduled to talk about what used to be known as the…
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Musk: No answers so far in ‘difficult’ failure investigation
Credit: US Launch Report SpaceX is more than a week into a company-led probe of a launch pad explosion Sept. 1 that destroyed a Falcon 9 booster and an Israeli communications satellite, but the investigation so far has turned up no smoking gun on the cause of the mishap, Elon Musk said Friday. In a…
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Carbon fiber report whips up interest in SpaceX’s plans for a colony on Mars
An artist’s conception shows a Falcon Heavy rocket lifting off for Mars. (Credit: SpaceX) Is SpaceX planning to buy billions of dollars’ worth of carbon fiber for future Mars-bound spaceships? The answer’s up in the air, but a report to that effect from Japan’s Nikkei Asian Review has set SpaceX’s fans abuzz. The report claims…
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SpaceX launches JCSAT-16 satellite, then lands Falcon 9 rocket at sea
A webcast view shows SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on the oceangoing drone ship known as “Of Course I Still Love You.” (Credit: SpaceX) SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a satellite for a Japanese communication company tonight, and then made a bull’s-eye landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The two-stage Falcon 9 carried the JCSAT-16 satellite…
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SpaceX’s HR guy addresses tales of overworked engineers and more on Reddit
Brian Bjelde, vice president of human resources at SpaceX, sent along this picture of himself in front of a launch photo to verify his identity for a Reddit AMA session. (Credit: Brian Bjelde via Reddit) SpaceX’s engineers are pursuing the high-flying goal of getting people to Mars, and by some accounts, the workload can lead…
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SpaceX successfully fires satellites into orbit, but loses booster on landing
In this view from the Vehicle Assembly Building roof at the Kennedy Space Center, a Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 10:29 a.m. EDT (1429 GMT) with the Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS 2A communications satellites. Two pioneering communications satellites purely powered by plasma rocket thrusters lifted off from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon…