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Jul 21, 2018
Starting this weekend, SpaceX is about to land a whole lot more rockets
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: drones, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel
The Block 5 is the only Falcon 9 the company will fly from now on.
Early Sunday morning, SpaceX is slated to launch its second Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket — the final and most powerful version of the vehicle the company plans to make. After launch, SpaceX will attempt to land the vehicle on one of its autonomous drone ships in the Atlantic. And landings should become fairly routine now, as all of SpaceX’s missions will utilize the Block 5 from now on.
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Jul 21, 2018
SpaceX Is About to Tackle One of Its Biggest Recovery Challenges Yet
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel
Starting July 22, SpaceX will have the chance to further cement itself as the best wide receiver in the aerospace game. Elon Musk’s rocket company is scheduled to make a total of five recoveries in less than two weeks, including three Falcon 9 autonomous spaceport done ships recoveries, a rocket fairing recovery, and a Dragon capsule retrieval.
This will require SpaceX’s fleet of recovery vessels to kick into overdrive. Both of its drone ships — Of Course I Still Love You in the Atlantic Ocean and Just Read The Instructions in the Pacific — will be serving as a landing platform for two separate Falcon 9 rockets. While two boats, including the newly upgraded Mr. Steven and NRC Quest will be tasked with bringing back a Falcon 9 fairing and the Dragon Capsule, respectively.
SpaceX prides itself on pioneering the use of reusable rocket parts and space vessels to make space travel more affordable than it has ever been. These five recoveries will put the company’s most iconic retrieval systems to the test.
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Jul 21, 2018
How These University Students Plan to Break the Hyperloop Speed Record
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, transportation
Delft Hyperloop is back, and it claims it’s about to break the speed record for hyperloop. As 20 teams gather in Hawthorne, California, for SpaceX’s third pod racing competition on Sunday, the Netherlands-based group could be one of the key drivers in a transportation revolution.
“Our objective is to go faster than the current record,” Clément Hienen, the team’s design engineer, tells Inverse. “For sure, we designed to break the record.”
It’s a bold claim, especially considering the wider industry. When Elon Musk first released his white paper for a vacuum-sealed-tube-based transportation system in 2013, he claimed pods could fly through at a theoretical maximum speed of 700 mph — cutting a six-hour drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco down to just 30 minutes. Musk’s own firms set a public speed record of 220 mph in August 2017, only for Richard Branson-backed Virgin Hyperloop One to beat the record with 240 mph in December 2017. Delft plans to beat both of these.
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Jul 16, 2018
British caver considering legal action after Elon Musk ‘pedo’ tweet
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: Elon Musk, law
A British caver who helped rescue 12 boys from a Thai cave said Monday he may take legal action against Elon Musk after the entrepreneur called him a “pedo.”
Tesla CEO Musk launched the extraordinary tirade against Vernon Unsworth without providing any justification or explanation, after the cave expert slammed his offer of a miniature submarine to extract the footballers from the Tham Luang cave as a ‘PR stunt.’ Current top breaking Philippine headlines regarding the nation, world, metro manila, regions and exclusive special investigative reports.
Jul 14, 2018
Elon Musk has a new interest group that could be added to his list of enemies: Cabbies
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: Elon Musk, transportation
A nightmare on the roads here. And, proof that anyone who tries to make it better will be seen as a bad guy.
Elon Musk’s ambitions often come under attack from entrenched interest groups. Now Musk’s Boring Company has a deal with Chicago to build a high-speed tunnel train to O’Hare Airport. Cabdrivers, already stinging from Uber and Lyft, could become the next “unfriendly” force for the billionaire entrepreneur.
Jul 10, 2018
Elon Musk’s Mini-Submarine Sits Out of Thai Cave Rescue Effort
Posted by Jeffrey L. Lee in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk
Is anyone interested in a mini-sub?
Elon Musk brought his new lifesaving mini-submarine to Thailand to help save 13 people trapped inside a cave, but rescuers didn’t use it. Here’s what’s next for Musk’s latest invention.
Jul 8, 2018
Do You Trust This Computer
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, military, robotics/AI
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Elon Musk Wants You to Watch ‘Do You Trust This Computer?’ in Memory of Stephen Hawking, and It’s Free.
Because “nothing will affect the future of humanity more than digital super-intelligence,” Elon Musk thinks you should watch Chris Paine’s artificial-intelligence movie “Do You Trust This Computer?” And, wouldn’t you know it, the film is streaming for free until later tonight.
Jul 1, 2018
“Flying brain” droid straight out of sci-fi launched into space
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel
The new AI droid just sent to space by Elon Musk’s SpaceX can assist astronauts in many tasks.
Jun 30, 2018
Elon Musk: This is why we have to build civilizations in space
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: Elon Musk, existential risks, space travel, sustainability
“Humanity is not perfect, but it’s all we’ve got,” the SpaceX and Tesla boss said.
To safeguard human life requires moving beyond the blue planet, in Musk’s view, because earth is likely to become uninhabitable.
“There will be some eventual extinction event” if humans stay on earth forever, Musk said in an article published in academic journal New Space, which was published online in June 2017.
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