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What if you could travel anywhere in the world in one hour? Elon Musk plans to combine his Boring Company’s Hyperloop, which is a high-speed underground train, with his SpaceX Company’s BFR rocket. After a train whizzes you to a spaceport, a rocket will launch you 16,777 miles-per-hour to your destination! That won’t take long, did it!
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SpaceX made its eighth rocket launch this year, and successfully landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket. It carried NASA’s newest satellite, TESS: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TESS will be looking for planets outside our solar system, hunting especially for Earth-like planets. Then the James Webb Space Telescope will take a closer look!
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The moon is getting its own mobile phone network! An Ultra Compact Network weighing 2 pounds will allow data and video streaming between the moon and Earth. PTScientists, Vodaphone, Audi and Nokia are all working on the Mission to the Moon project, which will launch on a SpaceX rocket in 2019. I hope they call me!
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Elon Musk and SpaceX launched the first two satellites of the massive Starlink plan. Musk wants to provide high-speed internet coverage for the entire Earth by launching thousands of interlinked broadband-internet satellites into orbit. If the test satellites are successful, more will be sent up over the years until the whole world has internet!
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When SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit around the sun last week, they also sent a Solar Library. A coin-sized disc made of quartz crystal called an Arch holds 360 terabytes of data, including Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy. The Arch can last 14 billion years. The overdue fines would be astronomical!
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February 6th is the launch date set for SpaceX’s rocket, Falcon Heavy. The payload for the vehicle will be Elon Musk’s car, a Tesla roadster. The Falcon Heavy will go into orbit past Mars, while its three booster rockets come back to land on Earth to be used again.
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SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. Government. The second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket delivered the Zuma to its position in low-Earth orbit, while the rocket’s first stage maneuvered back to Earth to land 8 minutes after take-off. Zuma’s mission is top secret.
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk is sending a special payload to Mars. When the Falcon Heavy rocket launches next month, it will be carrying Elon’s red Tesla Roadster playing the song “Space Oddity”. The rocket is destined to orbit Mars though, so the car will not get to drive on the planet.
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