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SpaceX Dragon space capsule will take tourists to space

Tourists pay for Moon flight

Two private citizens have paid tech billionaire Elon Musk to be sent around the Moon next year.

Technology

Falcon 9 First Stage image. Source: Spacex

SpaceX to ramp up launches

Elon Musk’s space exploration group plans to soon be launching a Falcon 9 rocket every two to three weeks.

Aviation

This image obtained from SpaceX shows a Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on January 14, 2017. SpaceX launched 10 satellites for Iridium, a mobile and data communications company. / AFP PHOTO / SPACEX / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

SpaceX launches, lands rocket

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully landed a Falcon 9 rocket in the first flight since September’s explosion.

Business

Chairman and Chief Exec of PepsiCo Worldwide, Indra Nooyi at Park Hyatt Hotel, The Rocks, Sydney, today.

Musk, Nooyi to advise Trump

The CEOs of SpaceX, PepsiCo and Uber are the latest to join Trump’s transition team.

Wall Street Journal

Inside The International Astronautical Congress

Musk lays out his solar vision

Elon Musk lays out a vision of how his proposed merger of Tesla Motors and SolarCity would work.

CASSANDRA SWEET and TIM HIGGINS

Wall Street Journal

Lyon, France - January 25, 2016: Tesla supercharger station and parking in Lyon. Tesla is an American automotive and energy storage company that designs, manufactures, and sells luxury electric cars

Tesla driven to surprise profit

Tesla Motors posted a surprise $US22 million ($28.8m) profit in its latest period.

TIM HIGGINS

Technology

SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks during the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. In a receptive audience full of space buffs, Musk said he envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying en masse to Mars, 'Battlestar Galactica' style. He calls it the Mars Colonial fleet, and he says it could become reality within a century. Musk's goal is to establish a full-fledged city on Mars and thereby make humans a multi-planetary species. (AP Photo/Refugio Ruiz)

Musk’s vision for city on Mars

SpaceX founder Elon Musk envisions a fleet of rockets ferrying thousands of passengers to set up colonies on Mars.

Andy Pasztor

Wall Street Journal

A Space-X Falcon 9 rocket exploding last week during a ground test. For NASA, the accident has added urgency to the question of when U.S. spacecraft will be ready once again to carry astronauts into orbit. PHOTO: U.S. LAUNCH REPORT//REUTERS

SpaceX blast puts NASA in a bind

The explosion of a rocket last week has further jeopardised hopes of the US again sending astronauts into orbit.

ANDY PASZTOR

Companies

Elon Musk’s cash squeeze

Tesla is facing a liquidity squeeze as instos shun the carmaker, amid its proposed merger with Musk’s Solar City.

SUSAN PULLIAM

Wall Street Journal

Tesla workers assembled cars at the company’s factory in Fremont, Calif., last year. Tesla has sold about 140,000 cars since 2008 and is aiming to churn out a million a year by the end of 2020. PHOTO: DAVID BUTOW/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES

Tesla falls short of Musk targets

Few chief executives aim as high or push as hard as Elon Musk at Tesla, the carmaker often missing his high targets.

SUSAN PULLIAM and MIKE RAMSEY

Wall Street Journal

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 8, 2016. The rocket will deliver almost 7,000 pounds of science research, crew supplies, and hardware to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

SpaceX Mars ‘as soon as 2018’

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning to send an unmanned capsule to Mars, perhaps as soon as 2018.

ANDY PASZTOR

Aviation

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), stands for a photograph at the unveiling of the Manned Dragon V2 Space Taxi in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 29, 2014. The Dragon V2 manned space taxi, an upgraded version of the unmanned spacecraft Dragon, will be capable of sending a mix of cargo and up to seven crew members to the International Space Station. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Elon Musk

Musk plots 2018 Mars mission

US entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed the first details of his dream for private enterprise to colonise Mars.

Andy Pasztor

Motoring

Tesla leaves the Germans behind

Lower car emissions are a European vision. This SUV rocket, ironically from the US, makes them a reality.

Dan Neil

Alan Kohler

Europe’s carbon emissions mistake

The Volkswagen scandal will spell the end of Europe’s 20-year-old “clean diesel” strategy.

ALAN KOHLER

The Deal

(FILES) In this April 30,2015 file photo, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils large utility scale home batteries at the Tesla Design Studio in Hawthorne, California. Tesla reported August 5, 2015 its loss for the second quarter widened to $184 million as the electric carmaker geared up for expansion. The net loss tripled from the $61 million in the same period a year ago for the company founded by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and known for producing vehicles sought after by celebrities and other wealthy individuals. Revenue rose some 20 percent from a year ago as Tesla produced a record 12,807 vehicles and delivered 11,532. AFP PHOTO / David McNew

The absurdity of success

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is shaping our future by branching into space travel and battery production. Is he insane?

Glenda Korporaal

Wall Street Journal

In this May 14, 2015 photo, a Tesla vehicle is parked at a charging station outside of the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif. Tesla reports quarterly financial results on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Tesla to charge up cash stockpile

Tesla has proposed to sell $US500 million ($677m) worth of shares in a new round of fundraising.

Mike Ramsey

Technology

(FILES) In this October 9, 2014 file photo, Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk unveils the dual engine chasis of the new Tesla 'D' model which is a faster and all-wheel-drive version of the Model S electric sedan at the Hawthorne Airport in Los Angeles. High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has reportedly added global Internet access from satellites to his vision of a future alongside sporty electric cars and private space exploration. The billionaire behind auto-maker Tesla and the SpaceX program is working on the project with satellite-industry veteran Greg Wyler, who spent some time devoted to a similar mission at Google, according to a report November 10, 2014 in the Wall Street Journal. Musk and Wyler are trying to devise a feasible and relatively low-cost way to put about 700 satellites, each weighing less than 250 pounds, into orbit to provide wireless Internet anywhere on the planet, the Journal reported. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON/FILES

Musk plans global wireless internet

HIGH Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is working on a web of small, low-cost satellites that could provide wireless internet globally.

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