https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-1419.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 Investor confidence in SpaceX is going strong, especially because of its ambitious (and now successful) efforts to launch humans into space in its Crew Dragon aircraft. As a result, it was able to obtain over half a billion dollars from investors for two of its pioneering programs: the Starship and Starlink. Ever since the
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162https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-1505.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 The Starlink project has just launched its ninth mission, consisting of 58 satellites, yesterday on June 13th. So far, a total of 482 of Starlink satellites have been put in orbit. This is a small portion of the total of 12,000 satellites that the company aims to launch. Starlink is SpaceX’s mission to provide
163https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-3265.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 A couple of days ago, NASA gave SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to make a rocket that will take astronauts to the moon for the first time in 49 years. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin, has since protested. According to CNN, NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) originally planned on picking two companies
164https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-3250.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 “You know, I’ve never spoken to Elon, although I have great admiration and respect for the company he’s built.” CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, admits he has never said a single word to Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla. Musk previously tweeted in December that in the ‘darkest days of the Model 3 program’ he
165https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-3253.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 A month ago, Musk made claims and comments about Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite communications company, unveiling his future plans to create antennas for the use of trucks, RVs, ships, and even planes, to provide internet service to vehicles of a larger size. But added that cars would not make the cut due to the size
166https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-1394.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 Electreck reports that Tesla has reduced prices on almost all of their models.Tesla did this in response after a decrease in demand that could be attributed to the global pandemic. Some of the models have lowered in price by thousands. The Model 3, the cheapest one, had a $2,000 cut. The price is now
167https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-3175.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 The Wall Street Journal reports that Elon Musk has set up a COVID-19 antibody study at SpaceX. 4,300 SpaceX employees have signed up and a group has been tested for COVID antibodies. The results have been made public in Nature Communications where Elon Musk has been listed as one of the co-authors. Yahoo News
168https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-1177.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 Why has full self-driving mode become more expensive? The Verge reported that Tesla will raise the price for the Autopilot feature $1,000 on July 1st. This is not anything new for Tesla. Though the current price of it is $7,000, Elon Musk expects that the price of the feature will be much higher. As
169https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-3185.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 Trips to Mars and convenient domestic air travel, are among the biggest ambitions for SpaceX’s Starship, a next generation spacecraft SpaceX is currently developing. The spacecraft would skim the outer atmosphere of Earth, and reduce travel times from many hours, to just minutes. While the rockets are more disturbing to their local environment in
170https://themuskette.com/wp-content/uploads/speaker/post-3279.mp3?cb=1671495985.mp3 Elon Musk’s SpaceX announces plans for its first orbital flight test for its next-generation Starship rocket, with plans to launch from Texas and return off the coast of Hawaii. Standing tall at around 160 feet, Starship prototypes are about the size of a 16-story building and built of stainless steel. Last week, Starship SN15
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