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With Boring Company flamethrowers sold out, some intrepid people are making their own. Continue reading YouTubers and Redditors Are Making DIY Clones of Elon Musk’s Flamethrower
Dude, where’s my luxury Tesla? Continue reading This Website Lets You Track Elon Musk’s Sports Car Through Space
Did Elon Musk pull off the perfect murder? And other things conspiracy theorists are wondering. Continue reading The Best SpaceX Conspiracies About the Falcon Heavy Launch
The payload on the Falcon Heavy was Elon Musk’s personal Tesla convertible. Here’s how it was prepared to weather the harsh space environment. Continue reading How to Prepare a Sports Car for Interplanetary Space
What to do after you’ve built and launched the world’s most powerful rocket? Continue reading What’s Next for SpaceX?
I watched the world’s most powerful rocket fly into space. Continue reading Photos From the Ground at the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch
What the Falcon Heavy means for the future of spaceflight. Continue reading SpaceX Just Launched a Tesla Into Space on the Most Powerful Rocket in the World
We’ve been having a lively discussion behind the scenes here at Hackaday, about SpaceX’s forthcoming launch of their first Falcon Heavy rocket. It will be carrying [Elon Musk]’s red Tesla Roadster, and should it be a successful launch, it will place the car in an elliptical orbit round the Sun that will take it to the Martian orbit at its furthest point.
On one hand, it seems possible that [Musk]’s sports car will one day be cited by historians as the exemplar of the excesses of the tech industry in the early 21st century. After all, to spend the millions …read more
Continue reading Are There Better Things To Hurl Into Orbit Than A Sports Car?
On January 21st, 2018 at 1:43 GMT, Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifted off from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. Roughly eight minutes later ground control received confirmation that the vehicle entered into a good orbit, followed shortly by the successful deployment of the payload. On only their second attempt, Rocket Lab had become the latest private company to put a payload into orbit. An impressive accomplishment, but even more so when you realize that the Electron is like no other rocket that’s ever flown before.
Not that you could tell from the outside. If anything, the external appearance of the Electron …read more
Continue reading Smaller and Smarter: The Electron Rocket Takes Flight