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Musk, speaking at SXSW, projects Mars spaceship will be ready for short trips by first half of 2019

Posted in Hardware on 12th Mar, 2018
by Alex Muller

Elon Musk says that his timeline for sending a space vehicle to Mars could mark its first milestone early next year.

SpaceX engine production and rocket capacity

Posted in Business on 10th Feb, 2018
by Alex Muller

SpaceX is producing about 5 engines per week and has the factory capacity for 400 engines per year or about 8 engines per week.

Spacex dedicated tanker versions of BFS for orbital refuelling business

Posted in Science on 24th Nov, 2017
by Alex Muller

A propellant depot is a cache of propellant that is placed in orbit around Earth or another body to allow spacecraft or the transfer stage of the spacecraft to be fuelled in space.

US gov should support SpaceX and develop moon bases

Posted in Hardware on 20th Nov, 2017
by Alex Muller

SpaceX would still build the BFR even without government money.

SpaceX Big Rocket could launch 4200 Cubic Meters of Bigelow Space Station

Posted in Business on 1st Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller

Spacex will be putting all of its development into a 150 ton payload fully reusable rocket. This will be ready around 2020-2022.