Elon Musk Current Affairs, GK & News

SpaceX announced First All-Civilian Mission to Space

February 2, 2021

The SpaceX of Elon Musk has recently announced to launch its first all civilian mission to the space. Highlights The SpaceX is planning for the launch of Inspiration4 on Falcon 9. This would be the first all-commercial astronaut mission in the world. The spacecraft will start orbiting in the fourth quarter of this year. The ..

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SpaceX’s Mars test rocket makes first successful flight and upright landing

August 6, 2020

The Elon Musk-owned company, SpaceX has launched a prototype of its Mars rocketship hundreds of feet into the air and then landed it upright in a successful test flight. This lasted for 45 seconds and reached just 500 feet at the southeastern tip of Texas near Brownsville. This is the first successful flight by the ..

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Two NASA Astronauts water-landed on the Earth

August 4, 2020

Two NASA astronauts made safe water-landing in the Gulf of Mexico and this is the first time such a thing has taken place since 1975 Mission by NASA. This was also the first astronaut trip to orbit by a private company and two astronauts dropped out in orbit. Details of the Landing Suspended under four ..

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Amazon plans to invest $10 billion to build satellite infrastructure

July 31, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission declared that Amazon might build its ambitious satellite internet system that is going to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink network. Amazon has also announced that it is going to invest more than $10 billion for this purpose in the years to come. Highlights The project by the e-commerce giant, named as Kuiper, ..

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SpaceX launches First 60 satellites of its ‘Starlink’ Constellation

May 27, 2019

SpaceX launched a rocket carrying the first 60 satellites of its ‘Starlink’ constellation, from Cape Canaveral, Florida in US. The SpaceX’s new array of Starlink communication satellites is intended to provide Internet from space Key Highlights Launch Vehicle: The launch was conducted by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets which began to release the satellites at an ..

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