Sentences with phrase «of rocket company»

He is co-founder of the rocket company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).

Reportedly, billionaires Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of rocket company Blue Origin, have met with President Trump several times for talks about the proposed moon missions and partnership with NASA.

He is co-founder and CEO of electric car maker Tesla, founder and CEO of rocket company SpaceX, and the chairman of solar power provider SolarCity.

Musk tweeted on Friday that Tesla's official Facebook page should «definitely» be deleted, and it promptly was, along with the page of his rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp..

Musk talked about the future of his rocket company even after its first demonstration failed.

After SpaceX's first launch back in 2006, Elon Musk spoke with CNBC about the future of his rocket company.

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When Steve Blank appeared on the cover of Wired magazine 19 years ago, his company then, Rocket Science Games, was expected to revolutionize the videogame industry.

Gilliland notes private company Solara bested the government - funded Human Genome Project by hitting important milestones first, and Elon Musk's SpaceX found a way to send rockets into space for a fifth the cost of a NASA launch.

Besides, those focused on improving themselves don't work 100 - hour weeks developing SpaceX rockets and Tesla electric cars like Elon Musk, who's actually chief executive of both companies.

Blue Origin is headed quickly toward commercial operations as the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos nears the end of testing for several of its major projects.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk shows off photo of a large manufacturing mold to build the company's next generation rocket.

In theory, the company's SABRE engine will be capable of operating as a jet at take - off and transitioning to a rocket at higher altitudes.

Pokémon Go, a mobile game that has rocketed to the top of Apple (aapl) and Android app stores in record time, looks set to challenge young Internet companies that specialize in increasing foot traffic for small businesses and may end up playing a role in major brands» marketing, according to industry experts.

The booster pushes the top of the rocket (including the payload) about 40 miles into the sky, then detaches, lands back on the surface, and gets refurbished — a clever method that saves the company millions per mission.

It has long been understood that if a company's stock rockets ahead, a rich grant of options can lead to big payday.

The company, backed by German company Rocket Internet, posed revenue of EUR 349 million ($ 393 million) in 2016.

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time Tuesday, a major milestone in the company's quest to grow its customer base and fund its vision of making life multiplanetary.

The aerospace company says the launch vehicle, the first of its kind for SpaceX, is the most powerful rocket in the world today.

A lot of companies let their rocketing growth shoot right out of their own control, but it was still interesting to me to hear a CEO admit to reaching his financial goals.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, is poised to make good on its promise to slash the cost of launching things into space.

Martin Ross, another of the paper's authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.

It has been six months since Rocket Internet, Germany's biggest incubator for online companies, and Ooredoo, Qatar's leading carrier, teamed up to shift mobile e-commerce across Asia into high gear — and, with luck, make a ton of money along the way.

Rutan thought up a simplified design for a rocket motor and contracted its manufacturing out to SpaceDev, a company in Poway, Calif., that had developed rocket motors that burn a relatively easy - to - control mixture of liquid laughing gas and rubber, producing a full ton of thrust.

Yet, SpaceX — the spaceflight company created by Telsa founder and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk — had imagined a way to drastically cut the cost of launching anything into space: simply make the rocket re-usable.

«The company's OmegA rocket is starting at a high level of technology readiness given its leverage of current components,» Jefferies said.

The rocket company, which occupies five large warehouses in El Segundo, is ready for a home becoming of its grand ambitions, and Musk has picked out an absurdly large one.

The company also recently completed the first flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket, which the Air Force is utilizing for future launches.

Musk — who already plays leading roles in the SpaceX rocket venture, the Tesla electric car company and the SolarCity solar - energy company — unveiled what he has called the «alpha» version of the Hyperloop plan in a blog post on Monday.

The company received a Series C funding boost of $ 17m from the majority of its previous backers, including Rocket and Earlybird.

When Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of electric - car company Tesla, founded SpaceX back in 2002, he probably didn't envision that his company, which designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, would be responsible for delivering better coffee to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

With SpaceX hoping to make its rockets completely reusable, the company has been upgrading its payload fairings — the nose cone at the top of the rocket — as part of these efforts.

There is really none when one of his companies can suddenly decide to buy another for close to $ 3 billion, and he announces the deal on a day when he's not working on landing rockets for his other company.

Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc (tsla) and rocket company SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propcompany SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propCompany to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion.

Like Elon Musk's company, Blue Origin is engineering its rockets to safely land back on earth so they can be reused, thus shaving tens of millions of dollars off the cost of each launch.

The company has emphasized that this is a test flight and that the goal is «is to collect as much data as possible,» and the Wall Street Journal cautions that «Maiden launches of newly - designed rockets are notoriously risky.»

SpaceX is the only company to successfully launch and land a rocket capable of orbital flight.

The company has already reached orbit, but with a smaller rocket that is only capable of delivering satellites to space.

United Launch Alliance has dropped the price of its workhorse Atlas 5 rocket flights by about one - third in response to mounting competition from rival SpaceX and others, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.

Elon Musk and SpaceX recently hit a major milestone, when one of the company's reusable rockets had a successful launch on the first try.

The company, started by Elon Musk (founder of electric - car company Tesla), designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

The company, founded in 2002, has already had six missions in 2018, notably its February demonstration test flight of the Falcon Heavy, a powerful new rocket with three reusable side boosters designed to carry heavier payloads.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or even a corporate governance expert, to understand that having a former Ontario premier on a company's board can offer plenty of potential upside, especially for an Ontario - based auto parts maker such as Magna International.

SpaceX, the closely held company founded and led by chief executive officer Elon Musk — who also heads the electric auto manufacturer Tesla (tsla)-- is slated to demonstrate the maiden flight of Falcon Heavy, a larger and more powerful rocket, later this month.

The companies in the Kensho Space Index are focused on space - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsystems.

Now the rocket company, led by Elon Musk, is on the verge of passing another important landmark: launching a used one back into space.

In the case of Blue Origin, the company's smallest vehicle can be used to practice flying and landing techniques that can then be applied to larger rockets that can launch satellites, Bezos said.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors (and of rocket maker SpaceX), announced that his company would supply battery packs to for Daimler's cute - as - a-button all - electric Smart car.

With a rocket - powered test flight, the billionaire's space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014.

SpaceX is making preparations for the first launch of Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket the company has ever built.

The company uses some of the material in its Falcon Heavy rocket system, for example.