6: Spaceflight This Week: 02/13/2023

This week in spaceflight: Firefly Aerospace makes history with a successful Moon landing, while Intuitive Machines’ Athena mission doesn’t go as planned. Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 suffers another major failure, and rumors swirl about a Chinese rocket explosion at the ... Show More

NSF's Jack Beyer updates us on the ongoings at Starbase. 

NSF's Ryan Caton gives an update on all things Starbase. July 3, 2023. 

SpaceX accélère son ambition spatiale avec Starship, un vaisseau au cœur des prochaines missions lunaires Artemis et de la future colonisation de la Lune. Et ce n’est qu’un début. Elon Musk rêve déjà d’envoyer des centaines de Starship vers Mars, à condition de valider les techno ... Show More

What I learned from reading The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban.In the most recent 1% of our species short existence, we have become the first life on earth to know about the situation (4:38)The total market for satellite manufacturing, the launches that carry th ... Show More

What I learned from reading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger. ----Come see a live show with me and Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like The Best on October 19th in New York City. Get your tickets here! ----Subscribe to listen t ... Show More

What I learned from rereading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger. ----Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest ... Show More

In this video, we break down what might just be Elon Musk's greatest week yet! From unveiling groundbreaking new products like the Tesla Cab and the futuristic Tesla Robot, to a jaw-dropping SpaceX launch where Musk helped to save stranded the astronauts! 

Elon Musk's financial support for Republican causes has been much more extensive and started earlier than previously known. WSJ’s Dana Mattioli reports on Musk’s rightward political shift and explains how he hid his donations.  Further Listening: - Elon Musk and Silicon Valley Tu ... Show More

Elon Musk has introduced Optimus, Tesla’s new humanoid robots, to the world and has made some ambitious claims about their uses in the not-too-distant future. Viral videos of Optimus robots making drinks, dancing and chatting to attendees at the launch event have sparked question ... Show More

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the fallout between President Trump and Elon Musk, as Tesla stocks regain some of Thursday’s losses. Plus, the spat could impact U.S. space ambitions and SpaceX. The CEO of Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, also ex ... Show More

It’s tech billionaire Elon Musk’s first official week following his stint in the Trump administration. WSJ columnist Tim Higgins and WSJ reporter Becky Peterson assess the record of the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk created and look ahead to the challenges he face ... Show More

President-elect and Elon Musk are standing by for the splashdown of the most powerful rocket ever built. We are tracking the SpaceX test flight as well as Elon Musk’s growing influence over Trump and his incoming administration. Plus, someone gained unauthorized access to confide ... Show More