Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, among other companies. Their success has propelled him to become the richest person in the world, with a net worth greater than $335 billion. The South African–born entrepreneur started his first businesses in the 1990s: an online city ...
SpaceX has customers from the private sector, military and nongovernmental entities, which pay the company to launch cargo into space. Although SpaceX makes its money from launch services, the company is also focused on developing technology for future space exploration. And Musk's dreams of flyin...
SpaceX plans to refresh the Starlink megaconstellation every five years with newer technology. At the end of their service, the old satellites will be steered into Earth's atmosphere where they will burn up. That is certainly commendable when it comes to space debris prevention, however, there ...
126 LaRC is investing in an internal technical activity called RAMSES, which focuses on the development of modular assembly technology using innovative and stable reversible connection methods.48 Some companies in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program are working to improve the capability...
Should such technology come to fruition, it could greatly benefit the mining industry by streamlining the exploration process of today, where mining geologists perform ore grade control to figure out where the most profitable ore bodies are in terms of location and mineral concentration variability. ...
a new technology can be created, impacting the current technological climate. When there is a new technology, there is always a delay between the moment of its creation and the moment it is adopted into the mainstream. Finally, ideas and concepts become reality and they are absorbed into the...
Plant and microbial science and technology as cornerstones to Bioregenerative Life Support Systems in space ArticleOpen access Toward sustainable space exploration: a roadmap for harnessing the power of microorganisms Article Explore related subjects ...
There are plenty of Silicon Valley technology startups that craft a business plan, raise money, and fail. With Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Co., and so many others, the scale, timelines, and stakes are exponentially greater. Though Musk will bend over backward to insist that the tens of th...
both physically and then spilling into the virtual environment for inclusion of remote colleagues, it’s really magnetic. We love being in places like that. And that I think is going to lead to an explosion of this sort of activation-related staff. And technol...
failed to get traction to a larger audience due to conflicts arising from privacy and intrusion issues. It is always a matter of whom youtrust. Other technology companies, have tried similar paths, to tap into the tacit knowledge, like Autonomy have with their agent-profiles and so forth. Re...