Solar storm takes out dozens of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites
Elon Musk has lost dozens of satellites launched into space last week after a geomagnetic storm caused them to fall out of orbit and disintegrate, his company…
Travelling to Mars may speed up the ageing process and ruin any hope of reaching the Red Planet
Travelling to Mars may speed up the ageing process – making it dangerous to send humans to the Red Planet, scientists fear. Many space agencies, including Nasa,…
Room for ‘tens of billions’ of satellites, claims Elon Musk
Elon Musk has insisted there is still room for “tens of billions” of satellites in the sky as SpaceX raised a further $337m (£250m) in new funds….
China calls on US to protect space station from ‘close encounters’ of the Elon Musk kind
China is calling on the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX…
Elon Musk accused of ‘space warfare’ after Starlink satellites in near miss with China’s space station
One person called Starlink “a rogue project,” while another said it was “just a lot of space junk”. SpaceX has so far deployed nearly 1,900 satellites to…
Elon Musk turns up the heat to stop SpaceX burning through cash
SpaceX was almost out of cash. Thousands of miles from home on a tiny speck of coral in the Pacific Ocean, its engineers were working frantically to…
Astronomers accuse Elon Musk of blocking out the stars with Starlink satellites
Astronomers have warned that Elon Musk’s Starlink risks blocking out the stars to deep space telescopes and putting hundreds of millions of pounds of British investment in…
Elon Musk warns rocket trouble risks bankrupting SpaceX
Elon Musk has warned staff at SpaceX that the company faces a “genuine risk of bankruptcy” if it cannot fix its rocket engines by next year. Mr…