The company’s first flight into space is scheduled for July 20,the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Jeff Bezos says he has dreamed of going into space since the age of five. But sweeter still than achieving a childhood dream? Beating his billionaire peers in their race to space.
The rocket has been losing altitude since last month and will soon make what is called “uncontrolled re-entry” back to Earth.
The technology,unproven at such scale,could potentially bridge the long-standing city-rural digital divide on internet broadband in Australia,the US and elsewhere.
The space race between the world’s two richest men went into hyperdrive after Tesla chief Elon Musk took a swipe at Jeff Bezos’ attempt to challenge a major NASA contract.
Although this was SpaceX’s third crew flight for NASA,it was the first to use a vehicle that’s flown before,an essential part of a plan by SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk to push to the moon and Mars.
SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit on Friday,the third crew flight in less than a year for Elon Musk’s rapidly expanding company.
The satellite,owned by a company backed by British taxpayers,came within 60 metres of smashing into one owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The US National Weather Service said the widely reported bright objects in the sky on March 25 were remnants of the second stage of a SpaceX rocket.
The unpredictable entrepreneur stands on the cusp of disrupting Australia’s broadband business.
SpaceX has chalked up another failed landing for its futuristic,bullet-shaped Starship,as the prototype Mars rocket broke apart right before touchdown.