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Mar 29, 2021

Congress raises concerns about FAA’s handling of Starship launch license violation

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, government, space travel

WASHINGTON — As SpaceX gears up for another test flight of a Starship prototype, the Federal Aviation Administration is facing new scrutiny from Congress for how it handled SpaceX’s violation of its launch license on an earlier test flight.

SpaceX had planned to launch its SN11 Starship vehicle March 29 from its Boca Chica, Texas, test site. That flight will be similar to those of previous Starship prototypes, going to an altitude of 10 kilometers before landing on a nearby pad.

However, SpaceX called off the March 29 launch attempt because an FAA inspector could not arrive to observe the flight during a five-hour window. “FAA inspector unable to reach Starbase in time for launch today,” tweeted Elon Musk, chief executive of SpaceX, using the proposed new name for the Boca Chica site. “Postponed to no earlier than tomorrow.”

Mar 29, 2021

This quadruple amputee will fly on Elon Musk’s starship

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

Meet Philippe Croizon, a French quadruple amputee who is set to become the first disabled person to visit outer space on Elon Musk’s space mission.

Mar 26, 2021

Elon Musk tweets Tesla could become ‘the biggest company’ surpassing Apple ‘probably in a few months’ then deletes it

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Musk’s tweet offering guidance on timing for an anticipated increase in Tesla’s market cap has since been deleted, but screenshots were widely shared on Twitter.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has clashed with Musk and Tesla over the CEO’s unfettered use of Twitter before.

In the third quarter of 2018, Musk faced securities fraud charges from the SEC after he tweeted to his tens of millions of followers then that he was planning to take Tesla private at $420 a share, and had secured funding to do so. Tesla’s stock price jumped more than 6 percent that day.

Mar 25, 2021

Rural Iowans seeing benefits from SpaceX Starlink internet

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites

For many Iowans, the first they heard of SpaceX Starlink Internet is when the strange lights started appearing in the night sky in Spring 2020. Long “trains” of dots, each dot being a Starlink satellite.

“There’s all these lights and what looked to me like they were jets,” said John Dunnegan a resident living in rural Des Moines County, Iowa northwest of Burlington. “I thought we were being attacked by Russia. I thought ‘what is that?’ They were all in perfect file. I got on the internet started checking around, and found out what it was. It was Elon Musk’s Starlink.

Mar 24, 2021

Elon Musk’s bet on bitcoin as payment

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, Elon Musk

Bitcoin as payment hasn’t taken off in the decade-plus existence of the digital currency.

Mar 22, 2021

Elon Musk explains why Tesla would never share data with China *or* the U.S.

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

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Tesla’s Elon Musk said he sees too much risk for Tesla to engage in espionage. His words come after China barred its officials from using Tesla vehicles.

Mar 20, 2021

Thought-detection: AI has infiltrated our last bastion of privacy

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, food, internet, robotics/AI

“Ahsan Noor Khan, a PhD student and first author of the study, said: “We’re now looking to investigate how we could use low-cost existing systems, such as Wi-Fi routers, to detect emotions of a large number of people gathered, for instance in an office or work environment.” Among other things, this could be useful for HR departments to assess how new policies introduced in a meeting are being received, regardless of what the recipients might say. Outside of an office, police could use this technology to look for emotional changes in a crowd that might lead to violence.”


Research from the UK and an update from Elon Musk on human trials at his brain interface company show software is now eating the mind.

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Mar 19, 2021

Elon Musk shows off SpaceX’s 1st Starship Super Heavy booster

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

A massive rocket booster for a massive Starship.


SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off the company’s first Starship Super Heavy booster in a Twitter post on Thursday (March 18).

Mar 16, 2021

Elon Musk Says He’s Selling a Techno Song About NFTs as an NFT

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We’ve officially come full circle.

Mar 15, 2021

After Sunday’s launch, SpaceX is on the cusp of a historic reuse milestone

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“For those that know rockets, this is a ridiculously hard thing.”


As this is the first Falcon 9 rocket to launch nine missions, it raises the prospect of a first stage making a tenth flight in the near future, probably within a month or two. Reaching ten flights would accomplish one of the main goals set by SpaceX with the Falcon 9 rocket, after optimizing the vehicle for reuse about three years ago.

The company debuted its “Block 5” version of the Falcon 9 rocket in May 2018, and since then this vehicle has flown 55 missions, all of which have successfully delivered their payloads to orbit. More importantly, the changes SpaceX engineers incorporated into this new rocket to ensure its robustness for reuse, such as strengthening its “Octaweb” engine bay, have largely been validated.

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