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Tech giants are bracing for the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Photo: EPA-EFE

From chip war to TikTok ban: what tech can expect from Donald Trump

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, tech companies are bracing for a revamp of tech policies imposed by Joe Biden.

7 Nov 2024 - 10:20AM

Musk’s SpaceX asks Taiwanese suppliers to move production abroad

6 Nov 2024 - 11:00AM

Japan blasts world’s first wooden satellite into space

6 Nov 2024 - 11:42AM

Bid to shut down Musk’s US$1 million sweepstakes moves to US federal court

Battleground state Pennsylvania has found itself ground zero for lawsuits and claims about US election irregularities or fraud.

1 Nov 2024 - 2:10AM

Elon Musk speaks during a town hall event hosted by his political organisation America PAC in support of former US president Donald Trump. Photo: AFP

China launches Shenzhou-19 spacecraft, carrying its third female astronaut

Successful lift-off for three-person crew bound for Tiangong space station, with autonomous rendezvous and docking slated to follow.

30 Oct 2024 - 9:03AMvideocam

Trump headlines New York rally after vulgar, racist remarks from allies

Donald Trump holds a homecoming rally at Madison Square Garden as the US election campaign heads into final full week.

28 Oct 2024 - 2:41PM

Nasa astronaut hospitalised after return from space station

The crew, which splashed down on Earth in a SpaceX capsule, had spent nearly eight months in orbit.

26 Oct 2024 - 4:52AM

Support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on Friday. Photo: Nasa via AP

Concern over report of secret Putin talks as Elon Musk goes all-in for Trump

The head of Nasa says that claims Musk had contact with the Russian leader ‘should be investigated’, and ‘would be concerning’ if true.

26 Oct 2024 - 4:35AMvideocam

Trump supporter Musk’s US$1 million giveaways to US voters could be illegal

The US Justice Department has warned the billionaire’s America PAC that the daily sweepstakes plan may violate federal law.

24 Oct 2024 - 6:38AM

US to ease restrictions on space-related exports to allies

The new rules could benefit companies like SpaceX and defence contractors with space units like Lockheed Martin, L3Harris and Boeing.

18 Oct 2024 - 5:43AMvideocam

SpaceX’s Starship lifts off during its fifth flight test in Boca Chica, Texas, on Sunday. Photo: Reuters

China unveils road map to become world leader in space science by 2050

Plan sets out 17 priority areas for development including searching for habitable planets and exploring quantum mechanics.

15 Oct 2024 - 11:35PMvideocam

Chinese astronauts (from left) Li Guangsu, Li Cong and Ye Guangfu wave before their journey to the Tiangong space station aboard the Shenzhou-18 in April. Photo: AFP

Nasa spacecraft blasts off for Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of life

After a journey of nearly 3 billion kilometres, Europa Clipper is expected to arrive in Jupiter’s orbit in 2030.

15 Oct 2024 - 10:19AM

SpaceX ‘chopsticks’ catch megarocket booster after test flight

In an engineering feat, mechanical SpaceX arms catch Starship rocket booster back at the launch pad.

14 Oct 2024 - 1:03PM

Elon Musk to join Trump in rally at site of first assassination attempt

It will be the first time that the billionaire businessman appears publicly at a campaign event for the former president since endorsing him.

4 Oct 2024 - 11:37PM

Elon Musk gives a small bow of the head as former president Donald Trump congratulates him after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft. Photo: Reuters

SpaceX launches rescue mission for Nasa astronauts stuck in space

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were unable to return to Earth on Boeing’s Starliner as planned because of safety concerns.

29 Sep 2024 - 1:44AM

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off carrying Nasa’s SpaceX Crew-9, Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov to the International Space Station from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

Historic SpaceX private astronaut mission splashes down off Florida

The team had managed to hit a peak altitude of 1400km, the furthest humans have travelled from Earth since the Apollo missions to the Moon.

15 Sep 2024 - 4:51PMvideocam

How Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could help China detect US stealth fighters

A team of Chinese scientists have developed a groundbreaking method for detecting stealth objects on radar.

13 Sep 2024 - 8:00PMvideocam

Tech billionaire pulls off first private spacewalk high above Earth

Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is one of several wealthy passengers increasingly plunking down huge sums for rides aboard private rockets.

12 Sep 2024 - 8:08PM

US fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman peeks out to space from a hatch structure. Photo: AFP

Musk takes jab at Taylor Swift for Harris endorsement, riling China’s Swifties

The tech billionaire and Trump supporter told ‘childless cat lady’ Swift, ‘I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life’.

12 Sep 2024 - 5:31AMvideocam

SpaceX launches billionaire to conduct 1st private spacewalk

Considered one of the riskiest parts of space flight, spacewalks have been done only by professional astronauts – until now.

11 Sep 2024 - 12:53AM

Musk, owner of X, on track to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027: report

A trillion is a 1 with 12 zeros after it, represented as 1,000,000,000,000.

9 Sep 2024 - 9:12PM

Experts say that Elon Musk is on course to be the world’s first trillionaire. Photo: Reuters

Elon Musk plans to send uncrewed Starships to Mars in 2 years

The billionaire said the mission will be unmanned to test the reliability of landing intact on the red planet.

8 Sep 2024 - 10:47AMvideocam

SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship lifts off from a launch site in Texas in June. Photo: AP

Boeing’s troubled Starliner spaceship lands back on Earth without crew

Starliner’s smooth return was a relief for the aviation giant’s space ambitions after Nasa deemed it too risky to send astronauts home on it.

7 Sep 2024 - 1:12PM

Musk’s Starlink to block X in Brazil, reversing defiance of judge’s order

The satellite internet service Starlink, under Elon Musk’s SpaceX, plans to comply with the order after the court froze the company’s assets.

4 Sep 2024 - 12:13PMvideocam

Nasa explains away strange noise heard by astronaut in Boeing’s Starliner

‘A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by Nasa astronaut Butch Wilmore … has stopped,’ the space agency said.

3 Sep 2024 - 8:33AMvideocam

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft docked to the International Space Station’s Harmony module forward port. Photo: Nasa / TNS

US general urges China to report space debris as G60 satellite network launches

US Space Command chief says Beijing failed to notify about space junk left behind after rocket launches, but notes ‘positive’ moves.

1 Sep 2024 - 2:36PMvideocam

A rocket carrying satellites for China’s Qianfan Constellation blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre on August 6. Photo: CCTV

Musk’s SpaceX tightens grip on Nasa by bringing Boeing crew home from ISS

Nasa’s reliance on SpaceX grows as Boeing’s Starliner faces setbacks, highlighting the firm’s dominance in US space missions and satellite launches, while sparking concerns over Musk’s sway on US foreign policy.

27 Aug 2024 - 6:42PM

SpaceX delays launch of first-ever private spacewalk mission

Historic launch of Polaris Dawn mission with all-civilian crew is delayed by at least a day to check a ‘ground-side helium leak’.

27 Aug 2024 - 2:13PM

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SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) designs, manufactures and launches the world's most advanced rockets and spacecraft. Based in California, it was founded in 2002 by former PayPal entrepreneur Elon Musk with the aim of revolutionising space transportation.

Chairman / President

Elon Musk

CEO / Managing Director

Elon Musk

CFO / Finance Director

Bret Johnsen

Industry

Aerospace, Space Transportation

Website

spacex.com

Headquarters address

1 Rocket Road, Hawthorne, California, USA