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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Delivers and Returns

May 10, 2016 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

"SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Delivers and Returns"

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage

STATES CHRONICLE – Private aerospace company SpaceX sends SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a Japanese satellite into orbit and successfully returns.

This mission was SpaceX Falcon 9’s first one, ascending last Friday and returning Monday night without any complications on a drone ship in Port Canaveral, Florida.

It’s the second landing on a floating barge.

SpaceX Falcon 9 landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship owned by the SpaceX Company. Its curious name comes from the General Contact Units spacecraft commanded by AI in The Player of Games novel, by Iain M. Banks.

The booster’s mission target was to set the Japanese commercial satellite, the JCSAT-14, into orbit; a process called “geostationary transfer orbit.” The spacecraft belongs to SKY Perfect – a Japanese television and communication corporation who’s plan is to deliver Internet services and broadcasting to Japan and other countries.

The service will be done through the help of the spacecraft drifting in the geostationary orbit 22,000 miles from Earth.

Traveling two times the speed of its previous prototypes, SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket needed an addition of two engines to “minimize gravity losses,” – like Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, tweeted.

Its specs made the booster subject to higher temperatures during descent and less fuel for the return, but it was all carefully designed for the mission’s primary goal.

The first next step now is to transfer the booster back to SpaceX headquarters for inspection and further testing.

After the successful descent and recovery, the 140-foot tall rocket is now included in the general SpaceX plan to launch again. Its previous SpaceX “sibling”, the CRS-8 Dragon recovered in April, will probably qualify for another mission re-launch in this year’s June. This mission is the 3rd landing scenario SpaceX masters, after the one in December 2015 and the previous in April.

With the rockets being programmed to land themselves back to the drone ship or landing pad, they all returned, to Musk’s delight, safely as expected.

According to the company’s announcements, they plan to “ramp up” the launches and send rockets every 2-3 weeks by the end of the year.

It’s incredible what these private companies can accomplish with their funds. The success of SpaceX Falcon 9 mission and its precursors have now set the bar higher for our expectations.

Image source: Flickr

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: 140-feet tall booster, 3 engines rocket, CRS-8 Dragon, drone ship, Elon Musk, JCSAT-14 satellite, Of Course I Still Love You, Of Course I Still Love You drone ship, private rocket mission, rocket decent, rocket mission, SpaceX, SpaceX Falcon 9, SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket

Elon Musk Warns about Potential AI Threat

August 4, 2014 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

When somebody reaches the enormous success Elon Musk already has, most of what they say can be overanalyzed, that’s a risk. People pay attention to all the information such a person might provide because they can learn the trends of the future. There’s a risk to that, because self-fulfilling prophecies are not totally unheard of in the technological field.

Elon Musk is one of the most successful tech entrepreneur and he talks about a potential AI threat. Hailed as a visionary, Musk founded or backed some of the most future oriented tech business, starting with Paypal and ending with SpaceX. Musk tends to revolutionize every business category he sets his mind on. Tesla Motors already pushes the car industry into embedding the latest technological advanced into auto vehicles. SpaceX is still in its infancy, but Musk promises manned flights to Mars in the 2020s. So what Musk says about the future can hardly be ignored.

Yesterday, Elon Musk tweeted “Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.”

We already fear the cold cruelty of the intelligent machine since the 1980s, thanks to the Terminator. Futurama’s Bender is another gruesome example of how the machines of the future will interact with humans. But actually having a present day technological guru stating it makes us take it more seriously.

Later during the same day, Musk added more on the same idea. “Hope we’re not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable”. Obviously, the story is older than the Matrix, but still worth posing.

Elon Musk warns about potential AI threat but is not taken too seriously

Elon Musk warns about potential AI threat

ELon Musk is not saying something completely novel. What we can learn out of it regards the need to actually have a meaningful ongoing debate. Tesla’s owner expressed similar concerns just a couple of months ago and Stephen Hawking shared the anxieties. But many take these worries as nothing too serious. One reason would be that we might self-destruct ourselves through pollution before the machine will kneel us, as venture-capitalist Roger McNamee declared for CNBC. Musk tries to stay ahead of the game by investing in Vicarious, an AI start-up which aims to come up with next generation AI algorithms. With his involvement in Vicarious, will Musk prevent a potential AI threat or will he be a part of it unwittingly?

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: AI, dystopia, Elon Musk, futurology

Texas Chosen as SpaceX Launch Site

July 16, 2014 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Elon Musk has given so much already to the field of technological development. After founding the online payment system PayPal, he did not rest. He founded Tesla, the successful electric car company. The high-tech entrepreneur dreams big. For example, last year he presented the plans for a high-speed rail road linking San Francisco and Los Angeles in just 30 minutes. Space X is one of the most optimistic space programs right now. Eventually, Elon Musk’s company aims to start a Mars colonization program. From what the entrepreneur achieved so far, the goal must be seriously taken into consideration.

Space exploration has historically been a public affair. After WWII, the Cold War drove some of the most spectacular technological achievements with the Moon exploration at its top. After the power statement was made, NASA’s budget has been periodically decreased. Even if the agency still runs numerous space programs, there is an overall discontent with the speed of the exploration process. Right now, NASA focuses on Earth too with its climate analysis satellite.

SpaceX Launch Site set to Texas

Elon Musk plans to take matters into his own hands with the SpaceX program. SpaceX is a transport company with Californian headquarters. SpaceX is not the only private space flight company, but it is definitely the most successful one. It has literally gone further than any other private competitor. With Elon Musk by its side, it could not have done otherwise.

SpaceX Launch Site not in the traditionally spaceflight oriented Florida

The company applied to the Federal Aviation Administration for a launch site. FAA responded on Tuesday and agreed upon a SpaceX launch site. The site is placed in Cameron County, Texas, to the dissatisfaction of Florida officials. SpaceX operates two reusable rockets, the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. The FAA allows SpaceX to do up to 12 launches per year. This might be enough for now, but Elon Musk plans to offer commercial space travel to the masses, meaning that he aims for several launches per day.

Further on, the spaceport will probably be the departure point for the subsequent Mars exploration. A short while back, Elon Musk ambitiously stated that in 10 to 20 years SpaceX is going to fly people to Mars. With Texas Chosen as SpaceX Launch Site, the plan to have the Mars Colonial Transporter able to carry up to 100 people by 2025 starts to seem feasible.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: commercial space travelling, Elon Musk, space exploration, SpaceX

Tesla Motor Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) Exceeds Analysts’ Projections; Musk Fortune Now Valued at $570-M

August 9, 2013 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

THE  fortune of Elon Musk has now ballooned to $570 million as of yesterday press time, as shares of Tesla Motor Inc. (TSLA) surged 14 percent following the firm’s Q2 results that exceeded estimates by analysts courtesy of robust deliveries on its Model S sedans.

Based on latest records by the Billionaires Index of Bloomberg, Musk has a net value of $7.8 billion, which has soared over 220 percent in year-to-date.

 

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Musk is ranked 162 in the wealthiest people in the globe. He co-founded Tesla Motors in 2003.

Tesla on Wednesday reported operating expense revenue of $0.20 per share, which includes $0.15 related to a leasing program.

Even minus the provision, the company was able to exceed most expectations by Wall Street analysts for twenty-cent loss, based on figures gathered by Bloomberg.

TSLA announced that it will generate more income profits for the whole year, even as the company penetrates the Asian and European market.

Shares of the company settled at $153.47 as of Wednesday, which brings TSLA’s market value to over $18.2 billion.

TSLA’s shipment of the Model S has reached 5,160 in the first three months of the year, beating its target of 4,510.

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Elon Musk, NASDAQ: TSLA, NASDAQ:TSLA, Tesla, Tesla Motor, Tesla Motor Inc, Tesla Motors

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