NASA unveils its new Mars habitat concept
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When the first astronauts arrive on Mars they’re going to need somewhere to eat, live and sleep, and NASA’s new icy concept could be just the home away from home they always wanted There are a lot of hoops to jump through before anyone...
Two Google XPRIZE teams join forces to land on the Moon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF For the sixteen private teams racing to land a lunar rover on the moon in 2017 achieving the goal is more important than the politics. Two teams competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE have decided to join forces and have signed a ride share...
SpaceX teases a photo of the Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful rocket
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to build a colony on Mars you need a big rocket to move a lot of stuff – it’s as simple as that SpaceX’s massive new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, hasn’t taken flight yet, but when it does, it will be the...
SpaceX will launch 4,425 satellites to bring superfast broadband to the entire world
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Over 65% of the Earths population still don’t have internet, Musks ambitious project will bring them the same internet benefits that the rest of the world have… and fund his city on Mars. SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, is planning to put more than 4,000...
SpaceX, Facebook and others compete to connect the next 3.5 billion people
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Over half the worlds population has no access to the internet, or the services, or benefits it offers. These audacious global internet programs want to resolve that. Internet access is cheap, fast and available everywhere. Mobile phone and communications companies throw unlimited data plans...
NASA is funding an artificial gravity program
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Astronauts who are exposed to long periods of microgravity suffer health problems when they get back to Earth, an artificial gravity system would replicate the natural gravity of Earth and prevent the problems from occurring. Microgravity is bad for the bones and muscles. Just...
The race is on as Boeing vows to beat SpaceX to Mars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The race for Mars is hotting up as Boeing enters the race. Less than a week after SpaceX founder Elon Musk detailed his vision to get people to Mars Boeings CEO has intimated that the company plans to beat Musk – and everyone else for that...
SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars by 2022
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Making the leap to become an interplanetary species will happen but Musk wants it to happen by 2022. Now we know how Elon Musk plans to get 1 million people to Mars and while many people still believe that this is the stuff of...
SpaceX explosion sees Facebooks African internet project go up in smoke
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The Facebook CEO said he was ‘deeply disappointed’ in explosion of Falcon 9 rocket carrying satellite intended to provide internet coverage to parts of Africa In October last year Mark Zuckerberg, Facebooks CEO, proudly announced his first project to deliver internet from space. The post read: “As...
SpaceX begins tests on the rocket that will take humans to Mars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF SpaceX set to put their new Raptor engine through its paces and keeps an eye on landing a human on Mars in 2024. SpaceX’s company president, Gwynne Shotwell has just announced that the company is inching closer to realising it’s CEO, Elon Musk’s ambitious plans to land...
The first private moon landing gets the green light
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF More and more private organisations are taking on the final frontier, now Moon Express have a license to land on the Moon. Less than half a century after Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon the FAA has granted approval...
Scientists travel to the edge of space to 3D print a heart
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D bioprinting has long held the promise of ending organ donation lists, now there’s an end in sight. A team of scientists working for the NASA and SpaceX contractor Techshot have become the first people in history to successfully 3D print a heart structure in zero gravity using human...
Inside SpaceX’s mission to Mars
This week Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX said it would put its Dragon spacecraft on the red planet “as soon as 2018″ making it the first private company to go interplanetary. While it’s easy to get impatient with crackpot plans to head for the red planet SpaceX is unique in...
SpaceX announces 2018 mission to Mars
The first inter planetary private company, SpaceX and its outspoken founder Elon Musk have talked about going to Mars ever since the super powerful Falcon Heavy launch vehicle was unveiled a few years back. Now it’s more than just vague talk – SpaceX has announced plans to launch a Mars...
Pt. 2 of 2. The rules of business have changed, adapt or die
In Part 1 we looked at how Entrepreneurs are catching many business leaders off guard and changing the rules of business. In this article we look at how they’re managing it and what legacy multi nationals can do to transform their businesses in mid flight to compete. Whichever continent, whichever industry and whichever...
Elon Musk wants his space internet venture to fund a city on Mars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Musk needs to raise $10 Billion to fund his ambitious 2026 Mars flights as well as a Martian City, the profits from this project will help fund his Mars project Elon Musk doesn’t only plan to bring the whole world online using a fleet...
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