The uncomfortable fact remains that Musk and people like him – your Jeff Bezoses, your Sam Altmans – are the ones who are invoking a positive vision of the future
New Glenn rocket was preparing to take off from Cape Canaveral to compete with SpaceX in the satellite launch market
Palantir and Anduril, two of the world’s largest defence firms, creating consortium that includes Elon Musk’s SpaceX and ChatGPT maker OpenAI
Infusing new people into the workforce is ‘not just desirable’ but ‘economically necessary’, says chief executive
Amazon’s Kuiper has big plans but both groups face costly ongoing satellite replacement programmes
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Starship is the centrepiece of Elon Musk’s ambitions of sending people to the moon and Mars
Elon Musk-led company completes latest and riskiest bid to push the boundaries of commercial space flight
Privately funded five-day mission blasts off from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
Rocket designed by Elon Musk’s company reached altitude of more than 210km at a speed of 25,700km/h
Issue involved an oxygen relief valve on the upper stage of the company’s Atlas rocket, engineer says
Spacecraft flew around globe for first time but contact was lost during final stages of test as it re-entered atmosphere
Rotation of Eirsat-1, which is no bigger than a brick, righted by ground teams after being ejected from SpaceX rocket
Spacecraft is believed to have caught one of its landing feet on the uneven lunar surface and tipped over
Billionaire to shift a second business away from the state where his $56bn Tesla pay package was struck down
Moon lander could be first private private mission to land intact on lunar surface
From ‘bare minimum Monday’ to ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’, some additions to the lexicon of 2023 sounded less painful than others
Eirsat-1 got a clean deployment from the SpaceX rocket that carried it into low orbit, California base reports
‘We are about to become a spacefaring nation,’ says UCD researcher
Dr David Murphy of the EIRSAT-1 team said the mission will bring Ireland’s space industry to new heights
Uncrewed spacecraft is presumed to have failed and self-destructed
Biographer Walter Isaacson spent two years embedded with the Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter boss as he researched his book
Billionaire defends move claiming he did not want SpaceX company to be ‘explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation’
US military opening up to defence and weapons start-ups as evolving technology begins to transform modern warfare
Requests to open an embassy for extra terrestrials among correspondence to Government ministers
Resistance to irksome abbreviations has proved futile, so let’s enjoy the best of them
Unmanned rocket was not expected to complete all phases of first attempted space flight
Musk owned company will need a minimum of two days to prepare the system for another attempt at orbital flight
Change comes as ex-Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal reveals DOJ probe in pursuit of legal fees repayment
‘Technical glitch’ blamed for cancellation of flight to International Space Station
International rush towards satellite technology after Starlink proves crucial in Ukraine
Cork-born photographer Rhiannon Adam to take off in remarkable artist residency on ‘dear moon’ mission
Data from US-French satellite is expected to shed new light on the mechanics and consequences of climate change
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