2021 has been a whirlwind for private space tourism, with this week especially crucial for the ventures founded by Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson. While Bezos’ Blue Origin took a step forward in flying people on suborbital space trips,
Elon Musk told Tesla fans in Berlin that the first cars from its new Berlin factory could roll off the production line as early as next month. Musk said volume production would amount to 5,000 or “hopefully 10,000” vehicles per
The valuation of Elon Musk’s SpaceX crossed $100 billion following a secondary share sale by insiders announced this week, CNBC has learned. SpaceX has an agreement with new and existing investors to sell up to $755 million in stock from
Elon Musk repeated prior criticisms of fellow billionaire space mogul Jeff Bezos, as their companies continue to battle in federal court and in front of regulators. “You cannot sue your way to the moon, no matter how good your lawyers
The tech billionaire said he thinks chip shortage is a “short-term” problem as opposed to a long-term one. “There’s a lot of chip fabrication plants that are being built and I think we will have good capacity by next year,”
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk mocked President Joe Biden on Sunday for neglecting to praise his aerospace company’s historic, all-civilian mission to orbit. Musk recently said he would prefer to stay out of politics. But Sunday’s quip — which
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk helped achieve the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital fundraising goal of the Inspiration4 spaceflight, just hours after his company returned the crew from orbit. “Count me in for $50M,” Musk said in a tweet on Saturday.
Supply chain shortages are delaying the next version of Tesla’s high-performance electric car until 2023, CEO Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday. The new Roadster was supposed to debut in 2020. Musk and other Tesla executives have discussed supply chain problems and
Elon Musk fired his latest shot across the bow at Jeff Bezos, as the billionaires’ companies spar in front of federal regulators over satellite internet. After Amazon asked the Federal Communications Commission to dismiss SpaceX’s latest amendment to its Starlink
SpaceX has shipped 100,000 Starlink terminals so far, and is now serving 14 countries with license applications pending in others, according to tweets from founder and CEO Elon Musk. Musk’s Monday update implies that SpaceX added 10,000 new Starlink internet