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Musk activates Starlink satellites to give Ukraine data backup
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has activated Starlink, his commercial internet network, in Ukraine, with "more terminals en route". According to Politico, Musk's SpaceX has thousands of Starlink satellites in orbit, which allow the company to beam broadband services around Earth, without the need for fiber-optic cables. The satellites could keep Ukraine online if its internet infrastructure is damaged by Russia's attacks, the report said.
Ukraine wants Elon Musk's help against Russia
"While you try to colonize Mars -- Russia try to occupy Ukraine!" Fedorov wrote in a tweet to Musk. "While your rockets successfully land from space -- Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people!" "We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand," Fedorov's message concluded, the report said.
World's richest man Musk 'dating' Australian actress Natasha Bassett
According to Bassett, she has fallen for the 50-year-old's brains, "not his bank balance", reports Daily Mail. At the moment, Musk has a net worth of $233 billion as the richest person on earth. Bassett was recently spotted leaving Musk's private jet called Gulfstream in Los Angeles in the US. "Bassett has been seeing Elon for some time. They were friends first and only became romantic after he split with Grimes".
Elon Musk compares Canada PM Justin Trudeau to Hitler on Twitter, deletes it later
Responding to the Trudeau government' crackdown on crypto funding of the truckers’ protest, Musk tweeted a picture of Adolf Hitler captioned “Stop Comparing me to Justin” on the top of the photo and “(At least) I had a budget” at its bottom. The tweet had generated over 35,000 likes before it was take down.
SpaceX's Texas launch site will receive approval to launch by March: Musk
Musk's update on the Starship program since 2019, was delivered from a stage at Starbase, where he stood in front of a crowd of SpaceX employees, reports The Verge. Musk, highly confident that Starship will reach orbit this year, also demonstrated a new video of Starship's potential at the event.
SpaceX's Starship would reach orbit within 6 months: Elon Musk
Designed to take people and cargo to the Moon, Mars and other distant destinations in space, the rocket has been in the making for more than two years and, in May 2021, reached an altitude of 10 kms before landing safely. In a short presentation, Musk said that in the future, Starships could be built every three days.
How Musk's SpaceX rocket will deliver a crater on Moon on March 4
A hefty chunk of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into the far side of the Moon (not visible from the Earth) in a fiery explosion at about 8,000 kms per hour speed. It was US astronomer Bill Gray who calculated the space junk's new collision course with the Moon.
India’s Chandrayaan-2 in danger as SpaceX rocket goes out of control
A SpaceX rogue rocket has put India’s Chandrayaan-2 in jeopardy. The rocket is on a course to crash land on the moon after floating around in space for nearly 7 years. The rocket, Falcon 9, was launched in February 2015 from Florida and was an interplanetary mission to deploy weather satellite on a million-mile journey across the space. The debris in question, the second stage of the rocket, wasn’t left with enough fuel to traverse the return path.
Elon Musk slams UN, warns about population collapse
In a latest tweet, Musk posted, "UN projections are utter nonsense. Just multiply last year's births by life expectancy. Given downward trend in birth rate, that is best case unless reversed."
China slams Elon Musk over near satellite collision in space
According to a document submitted by China earlier this month to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the satellites from Starlink Internet Services, a division of Elon Musk's SpaceX aerospace company, had two "close encounters" with the Chinese space station on July 1 and October 21, reports BBC.
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