Is this the end of manned fighter planes? đ
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It summarizes the whole thing well.
ââAs important as Steve Jobs was, hereâs the difference: Elon Musk is trying to invent a future, not by providing the next app,â says renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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âWhat Elon Musk is doing is not simply giving us the next app that will be awesome on our smartphone,â deGrasse Tyson says. âNo, he is thinking about society, culture, how we interact, what forces need to be in play to take civilization into the next century.â
Between Muskâs work at Tesla developing electric cars and his SpaceX plans to put humans on Mars by 2024 (and, eventually, to colonize the planet), the billionaire tech executive is attempting to revolutionize both human transportation and space exploration, deGrasse Tyson says.
On Tuesday, SpaceX plans to launch the latest prototype of its Starship spacecraft â a system that could one day carry humans to Mars. The prototype, called.
The first time SpaceX attempted such an ambitious Starship flight, the 16-story vehicle blew up. Seven weeks later, Elon Muskâs company is trying again.
The latest Starlink satellites launched on Jan. 24 are equipped with laser links, and all Starlink satellites launched next year will be equipped with laser inter-satellite links, Elon Musk, SpaceX chief engineer confirmed on Twitter.
âAll sats launched next year will have laser links. Only our polar sats have lasers this year and are v [version] 0.9,â Musk tweeted on Monday.
A Twitter user noticed a difference in a photo of the stack of 10 Starlink satellites deployed on Sundayâs Transporter-1 rideshare mission, and asked Musk if an object that looked like a black pipe was lasers, which he confirmed.
A new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket. The 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.
Entrepreneur Elon Muskâs SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.