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Elon Musk’s Starlink Broadband Internet Now Available In Nigeria

Adewale A. — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:54:42 +0000

Good news! SpaceX Starlink broadband internet service is now available in Nigeria, the first African Country to receive the service. Starlink is a division of SpaceX and owned by Elon Musk. Starlink offers high-speed, low-latency broadband internet in remote and rural locations across the globe. SpaceX announced the roll-out of the service through its Twitter [...]

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If The 4th Launch Had Failed, SpaceX Would’ve Collapsed – Elon Musk

David Folami — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 17:30:19 +0000

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk has come out to open up about the worst year of his life. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting. According to him, his first years as CEO of the company were by far the most difficult, and 2008 was especially [...]

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SpaceX realizes over $337 million in fresh funding

Temitope Nlewemchi — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 20:45:12 +0000

Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX has generated $337.4 million in equity financing, the rocket company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. SpaceX, which counts Alphabet Inc and Fidelity Investments among its investors, hit $100 billion in valuation following a secondary share sale in October, according to CNBC. It had raised about $1.16 billion in equity [...]

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Elon Musk Set To Be World’s First Trillionaire

David Folami — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 11:12:22 +0000

Elon Musk, CEO of two of the world’s largest companies, SpaceX and Tesla is set to become the world’s first trillionaire. The Guardian recently revealed this via its platform, and the world has been reacting. According to the report, analysts at Morgan Stanley have predicted that Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire and it [...]

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Jeff Bezos retired to file lawsuits against SpaceX, says Elon Musk

Abiodun A. — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 05:58:14 +0000

After Amazon took aim at his Starlink satellite internet project, SpaceX’s Elon Musk fired a verbal shot at Jeff Bezos; sarcastically claiming he retired to take up a “full-time job filing lawsuits” against the aerospace firm. The latest salvo in an ongoing one-sided war of words was prompted by a letter an Amazon subsidiary sent [...]

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SpaceX expects Starship orbital stack to be ready for flight in coming weeks, says Musk

Abiodun A. — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 19:38:21 +0000

Back in May, SpaceX successfully landed its Starship prototype; SN15, a reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle that could eventually carry astronauts and large cargo payloads to the moon and Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Saturday the first orbital stack of the Starship rocket should be ready for flight in the coming weeks; taking the [...]

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NASA’s Perseverance tries to collect Mars rocks, fails

Abiodun A. — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 20:34:00 +0000

NASA’s Perseverance rover could not collect rock samples from Mars in its first attempt to do so; the US space agency said. The Mars rover is on a mission to collect rock samples from the Red Planet that can be studied by scientists on Earth. Samples are to be encased in tubes that would be [...]

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Jeff Bezos still seething about SpaceX’s NASA deal

Abiodun A. — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 21:37:57 +0000

Last month, Sir Richard Branson won the first stage of the billionaire space race; when he made it into low-Earth orbit on board his spaceplane Unity22. A short while later, Jeff Bezos followed suit on the New Shepard rocket; Blue Origin’s proposition for future commercial space exploration. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is last to launch a [...]

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SpaceX launches big carpool of 88 satellites to space

Abiodun A. — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:24:47 +0000

Dozens of satellites launched to space on Tuesday in SpaceX’s second in-house “ride-share” mission from Florida; bringing the total number of orbital objects carried by Elon Musk’s space company this year to nearly 900. A reused Falcon 9 rocket launched 88 satellites total for the “Transporter-2” mission; including the first five for a new Pentagon [...]

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Google Wins Cloud Deal From SpaceX for Starlink Internet Service

Abiodun A. — Fri, 14 May 2021 18:56:28 +0000

Google has won a deal to provide cloud services to Elon Musk’s SpaceX; which has launched a slew of Starlink satellites to provide high-speed internet, it said on Thursday. googleSpaceX will set up ground stations within Google’s data centers that connect to the Starlink satellites, enabling fast and secure internet services via Google Cloud, the [...]

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NASA successfully flies Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

Abiodun A. — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:29:38 +0000

NASA has announced that it has successfully flown its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on the Red Planet. The event is historical as it’s the first time that humans have performed a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The flight was controlled by the Ingenuity team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The aircraft first [...]

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SpaceX Rocket Explodes After Seemingly Successful Flight

Abiodun A. — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:33:00 +0000

The third time’s a charm? Not so for SpaceX, whose unmanned rocket exploded on the ground Wednesday after carrying out what had seemed to be a successful flight and landing — fresh on the heels of two fiery crashes. It was yet another flub involving a prototype of the Starship rocket, which SpaceX hopes one [...]

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Elon Musk Overtakes Bill Gate as World’s Second Richest Man

Abiodun A. — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 06:25:00 +0000

Elon Musk, tech entrepreneur has topped Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the world’s second richest man after a meteoric rise in his personal fortune. Mr Musk’s net worth jumped by $7.2bn (£5.4bn) to $128bn after shares in his car firm Tesla surged. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, only Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is [...]

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launches New Batch of Internet Satellite

Abiodun A. — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:40:00 +0000

US aerospace manufacturer SpaceX has launched 60 internet satellites from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. According to Space.com a Falcon-9 rocket lifted off carrying the Starlink satellites from the center on Cape Canaveral on Sunday. SpaceX tweeted that the satellites will bring broadband internet to “locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable.” SpaceX’s [...]

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