Humans naturally exhale this colorless gas, but breathing in too much of it is hazardous to your health. On Earth that usually isn't a problem because plants absorb CO2. Yet gardening space is limited on the ISS
Moreover, California is now working on a plan to build a much slower rail system between the two cities at a cost of $60 billion. It was this proposal that drove Musk to envision the Hyperloop. The California plan, Musk wrote in a 57-page white paper he published on the SpaceX site...
"It'll look like we're doing a little bit of a dance. And what that is is, we're going through a series of test matrix on the suit," Isaacman said. "The idea is to learn as much as we possibly can about the suit and get it back to the engineers to inform future suit design...
so for me, that hasn't changed too much. Working withSierra Space, being able to manufacture and do research in space to really accelerate what's happening here in labs and on the ISS; it's been eye-opening.
the situation is much different today. SpaceX’s Starlink has already launched an LEO constellation and has paying customers for its satellite broadband network. OneWeb and Amazon’s Project Kuiper, among others, also plan to deploy LEO constellations soon. Satellite imaging, another technology ...
It’s still the land of opportunity, but now it’s confronting the human cost of its success. The new buzzwords: responsibility and empathy.
Musk traveled the world meeting with different rocket builders and space engineers in hopes of finding the right rocket builder and the right price to make his project a reality but did not find a suitable candidate. Musk had the idea of creating a company that could build the rockets that ...
“From a financial perspective, SpaceX is probably the most secure of his companies,” says New York Times business writer and longtime Musk observer Andrew Ross Sorkin. “And that is because the government is handing over real hard cash for it to do what it does. Even if it turned out ...
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When complex systems are life-critical, it can be extremely difficult to modernize and upgrade them safely. While many engineers will never work on such systems, there is much to be learned from those who do. In this article, Toptal Solutions Architect Dr. Kyle Kotowick explains how to prope...