By CCN: The only thing worse for Elon Musk than a Tesla car exploding for no reason is a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule exploding to smithereens during a high-stakes test. The only thing worse than that, however, is describing the capsule’s obliteration as…
By CCN.com: The CEO of Binance, the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, is courting Elon Musk to hop on the crypto bandwagon by teasing a proprietary SpaceX cryptocurrency. CZ: Crypto can finance space exploration Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao made the pitc…
By CCN.com: Elon Musk is making headlines again, and this time its because he wants to make your internet faster and cheaper. The Starlink project pioneers the use of low-orbit satellites to provide more efficient internet for the world. Overcoming both rival complaints and regulatory issues, the FCC has approved the endeavor. This is a massive win for Musk, as well as most of the people of Earth. Here’s @SpaceX’s full statement on the FCC granting a modification request for its first ~1500 Starlink satellites. “Starlink production is well underway, and the first group of satellites have already arrived at
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By CCN: Tesla billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX suffered another setback when one of its Crew Dragon capsules encountered a mysterious “anomaly” during engine tests being carried out at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on April 20. The …
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to launch the most powerful rocket into space on Thursday. SpaceX will also attempt an epic triple landing which has never been done before. You can watch it right here on CCN. The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy was or…
Billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are taking their feud to a galaxy far, far away — this time, into space. In his latest salvo, Musk called Bezos a copycat amid news that the Amazon CEO plans to launch 3,200 satellites into space. Musk —…
Nasa is pressuring SpaceX and its embattled CEO Elon Musk to fix rocket design and safety issues that could keep the U.S space program grounded firmly on Earth. The government space agency took SpaceX to task in its 2018 annual report released this mon…
Tesla billionaire Elon Musk is a reluctant media darling whose every tweet and comment is heavily scrutinized. Musk has chafed under the white-hot glare of the invasive press, leaving Tesla investors to sometimes question his mercurial leadership. CCN …
Billionaire Elon Musk confirmed that he exited OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research group, on “good terms” amid disagreements with team members over the project’s direction. Musk also cited a desire to focus on “solving a…
Elon Musk posted four tweets last night demonstrating the new Raptor rocket engine. SpaceX engineers have been hard at work finalizing the next-generation rocket technology that will eventually power trips for the exploration of Mars. Musk Tweets Proof…
There aren’t many CEOs who can blame company layoffs on interplanetary space crafts and Space-based Internet. But then, there aren’t many CEOs like Elon Musk. During an investor call for Tesla on Wednesday, Musk argued that the SpaceX layoffs were comp…
By CCN.com: Trying to make heads or tails of Tesla’s financial footing continues to be a task. The good news for Elon Musk keeps getting trumped by worrisome, if not flat out bad news. This month is proving to be a trying one for Tesla founder and CEO …
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, is laying off 10 percent of its 6,000-employee workforce. The layoffs are part of a move to streamline the business and cut costs. “SpaceX must become a leaner company,” Pre…
LXDX, the high-speed cryptocurrency exchange founded by a former SpaceX engineer, has announced that it will issue stock through a security token offering (STO). Institutional Crypto Exchange to Issue Stock on the Blockchain CCN can exclusively report …
As an engineer at SpaceX, Joshua Greenwald was charged with spearheading automation and propulsion on the aerospace startup’s Moonraker project. Now, he is directing his efforts toward a radically different industry, albeit one that also has lunar ambi…
Elon Musk, the acclaimed founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, recently reached out to Dogecoin creator and Adobe product lead Jackson Palmer to eliminate Ethereum giveaway scammers on Twitter. For many months, ETH giveaway scams have plagued Twitter by…
Scam bitcoin and ether giveaway bots have started to target the accounts of high profile figures outside of the crypto community, such as SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and US President Donald Trump. Scam Bots Plague Twitter For over a year, scam bots…