Despite the spectacular demise of a full-scale prototype just days ago, a senior SpaceX engineer and executive believes that Starship could still be ready for its first orbital launch attempt before the end of the year. Even if the first launch attempt fails, that milestone – if realized – would be one of the single […]
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SpaceX and NASA’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch on Saturday was the most-watched online event in the history of the American aerospace organization. Amid challenging times on Earth, differences were set aside to watch two Aerospace entities launch astronauts into space. Approximately 10.3 million people tuned in to watch the mission’s launch on May 30, according […]
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Tesla is looking for engineers who would relocate to the Central United States city for an opportunity to work at its new Cybertruck Gigafactory. The TulsaforTesla.com site claims that Tesla has not decided on where its newest production facility will stand and gathering information on the number of engineers that would be willing to move to […]
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A Tesla Supercharger station in Las Vegas, Nevada, just off of the Strip, became a parking lot for petrol-powered cars. The 35-stall Supercharger station located at the High Roller, a 550-foot-tall Ferris Wheel popular among Vegas tourists, is the site of Tesla’s high-powered V3 Superchargers. Amid continued lockdowns in much of the nation and a […]
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Shortly after a briefing following SpaceX’s flawless astronaut launch debut, CEO Elon Musk casually revealed the best explanation yet for why a Starship prototype violently exploded during testing on May 29th. On that fated Saturday, SpaceX successfully completed the fifth static fire of a Raptor engine installed on a full-scale Starship prototype, preceded by about […]
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Two recent electric vehicle sales reports tell a similar tale—the Tesla Model 3 is dominating the market worldwide and in its home market of California, and other models and manufacturers have a lot of catching up to make it a competitive situation.
Tesla has added a series of body protection kits for the Model 3 sedan to its online shop. The electric automaker now offers both a Paint Protection Film Kit and an All-Weather Protection Kit for owners of the Model 3. The two kits cost just $50 each and provide different advantages depending on the owner’s […]
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In the last three months, SpaceX has managed to raise more than half a billion dollars from private investors, money that will likely go directly into the company’s ambitious Starship and Starlink programs. Despite a huge amount of public focus now placed on SpaceX’s successfully-realized human spaceflight ambitions, said by NASA to have been viewed […]
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Tesla has submitted a patent that describes a new, more effective cooling process for manufacturing high-strength aluminum components to be used in its product line. The patent entitles, “System and Method for Facilitating Pulsed Spray Quench of Extruded Objects”, describes a quenching process that aims to increase the strength, rigidity, and energy absorption of aluminum […]
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Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) moves closer to the $900 mark after a big weekend for CEO Elon Musk. Musk qualified for the first tranche of his multibillion-dollar performance bonus, and SpaceX successfully launched two astronauts into space this past weekend. The electric automaker also received several upgrades from analysts based on Tesla’s future outlook in international […]
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