Last year, the aerospace transport agency SpaceX had launched the prototype satellite for its much-talked-about project, Starlink, a project that targets to provide internet to the whole planet through a network of the satellites. And now after a year-long wait, the company will finally be launching the first batch of satellites of Starlink’s “production” version with the help of SpaceX Falcon 9 today at 10:30 PM EDT.
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The
company will launch 60 satellites with the help of a Falcon 9 rocket,
which will be launched from a launchpad based in Cape Canaveral.
After the launch, the satellites will be arranged like a
constellation to cover a part of the Earth like a blanket. Starlink
project will be responsible to provide open, high speed and
low-latency internet to anyone in the world.
The
Starlink project revolves around the concept of low earth orbit (LEO)
satellites. Once the satellites are positioned in the orbit, these
will link to the small terminals on the surface of the earth. The
satellites are able to easily make a connection with the ground
terminals as the LEO satellites are positioned at a distance as close
as 99 to 1,200 miles from the surface of the Earth. This way the
internet speed will also be faster as compared to the conventional
methods used to provide internet.
The
60 satellites have been placed like kernels on a corncob, and with
the help of a spring, these will be sent to the orbit at a particular
velocity.
The launch of those satellites is a challenge for the company, which if went favourably, will be a great achievement for the company. Otherwise, there are other rival companies of SpaceX too that are also looking forward to getting their hands on similar projects, including OneWeb and Amazon too.
But since the company had test-launched similar satellite TinTin A and TinTin B successfully in the month of February, there are higher possibilities of the success of the Starlink project. According to Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX those 60 satellites are the “production design”, and in future, the company plans to launch as many as 12000 satellites to achieve that constellation network. If the experiment goes according to the plan, people will be able to access high speed and free internet by the mid of 2020.
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Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, is a visionary and has been working constantly, towards improving the company’s series of self-driven cars. At the Tesla’s Autonomy Investor Day in Palo Alto, California, held on Monday, the company announced a new silicon chip, specifically, built for its self-driving cars, which according to Tesla is “the best chip in the world”.
Tesla in a partnership with Samsung has developed a silicon chip to be installed into the Tesla cars to make them fully self-driven. It is a 260 square millimetre chip having 6 billion transistors, which will be a complete solution for the driver-less cars.
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While
representing the new chip at the event, Musk said, “All cars being
produced right now have this computer. All Tesla cars being produced
right now have everything necessary for full self-driving. All you
have to do is improve the software.”
According
to Musk, the chip is being mounted in the Tesla Model S and Model X
for over a month now, and for the past ten days the Model 3 cars in
manufacturing are also including this very chip in it.
Only a month ago, Musk had mentioned in an interview that Tesla will be bringing the fully-autonomous cars soon, which won’t require a human input to drive. And now, the company has announced this new silicon chip, which, according to the company, is 21 times better than the Nvidia chips that the company has been using in its cars.
The
Tesla autonomous cars includes the auto-pilot feature, which still
needs the supervision of humans to drive accurately. In the past
years, the Tesla cars have seen a few accidents and car crashes, most
of which were driving on auto-pilots. So having a new chip that won’t
require any of the human inputs is sceptical for many.
This is the first time the company has developed a chip by itself, and Musk too jokingly mentioned the same, saying, “It seems improbable. How could it be that Tesla, who has never designed a chip before, would design the best chip in the world? But that is objectively what has occurred. All Teslas being produced right now have this chip.”
Musk,
during the presentation, also said that the company will roll out
over a million fully self-driving cars by 2020 with the help of this
same new chip.
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SpaceX has finally launched its first commercial mission with the Falcon heavy carrying the Arabsat-6A, a high-capacity telecommunications satellite in its payload, on Thursday. The satellite is built by Lockheed Martin, for Saudi Arabian corporation Arabsat. The launch took place from the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 6:35 p.m. EDT, after a delay due to the bad weather.
Falcon
is the most powerful rocket in the world. The launch on April 11 was
its second flight attempt following a successful test launch in
February 2018. After 9 minutes of launching Falcon, the three booster
rockets, too, landed back on Earth, safe. The three core rockets will
be ready for reuse in a few days. These core engines are capable of
generating 5.1 million pounds of thrust together. In the previous
launch, two of the three boosters had landed safe, but the third one
had crashed into the ocean as ran out of fuel at 300 miles per hour.
Despite
the delay due to the wind, the events took place as were planned. The
two boosters landed at the LZ-1 and LZ-2, and the third, the core
booster, landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You”
drone-ship.
After
the 34 minutes of the takeoff, the Arabsat-6A payload detached itself
from Falcon and went into the orbit making the mission a success.
The
satellite launched by Falcon is a communication satellite, which will
provide the television, radio, Internet and mobile communications
services to the people of the Middle East, Africa and parts of
Europe.
Last year, the SpaceX had 21 successful launches for its customers. This year the company intends to take humans to space and has partnered with Boeing Co. signing a contract with NASA for its Commercial Crew program, to board American astronauts to the International Space Station.
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Tesla, the automotive and energy company, has launched a new Amazon store, to sell its merchandise. This is not the first time that the company is manufacturing and selling those merchandise as it has been selling them on its own ‘Tesla Shop’ website for past many years.
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The
automaker previously had also teamed up with Home Depot to sell its
energy products, though, hey ended the partnership in 2018.
The company had been selling self-branded goods including almost everything, like water bottles, hats, hoodies, surfboards, iPhone cases, wireless smartphone charger, a portable battery, etc. on the online store, and the people who have been following CEO Elon Musk and are his fans, have always been there to buy them.
As Tesla also knows that Amazon is the number one online shopping site, making Tesla goodies available on an Amazon store will help Tesla to grab more buyers for its merch. The opening of Amazon’s online stores for the Tesla merch can be a company’s move to reach more people. Although the store will not have all the Tesla accessories, yes, it will have some interesting ones available on it.
The
Amazon store will have on sale the iPhone X cases, having written
Tesla on it, subtly emblazoned across the side. The case price will
be between $35-$45. It will also be selling hoodies branding Tesla,
which will cost between $70-$75 and a 1:18 scale die-cast models of
the company’s cars costing around $250, etc.
Although with the launch of its Amazon store, Tesla had put only two products on the site, i.e. an iPhone 8+ case and a Tesla iPhone X folio case. There can be two reasons that the company had only put two products for sale, either the other products were all sold out, or the company was not ready for the launch. The latter reason can be more accurate as now the company has even put down the page on which it was selling all the goods.
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This is the age of Tech Entrepreneurship and startups. From Steve Jobs to Bill Gates there are many tech founders who have made it big into technology that has changed the world and impacted our lives drastically. Today entrepreneurs are thinking beyond online ecommerce and taking huge risks to make world a better place. For many tech founders money is not the only thing that matters. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and his wife pledged to give away most of their wealth for social causes. Bill Gates is a well known philanthropist. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is running so many campaigns in the world to improve education, health and lives of people.
Elon Reeve Musk is one such great tech entrepreneur and new age philanthropist. Unlike others his philanthropy is driven by technology that aims to make world a better place to live. The real-life inspiration for Iron Man’s main lead character Tony Stark, Musk has interests in industries like automotive, aerospace, solar energy, energy conservation, satellite and high-speed surface transportation. Working more than 100 hours a week and drawing just $1 as salary, Elon is on a mission to save and change the world by investing and nurturing companies like Tesla, SpaceX, and Solarcity.
ELON MUSK
Have you heard about Blaster? Blaster is a game that was made by a bored 12 year old in 1984. This 12 year old was none other than Elon Musk. Elon Musk one of the founders of PayPal became a self-made millionaire at the age of 27, when he sold his first company, Zip2. By age 41, his estimated net worth had surpassed $1 billion, and today, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO has an estimated net worth of $10.5 billion. Most of his innovations seem straight out of a sci-fi movie.
Tesla Motors
Musk co-founded Tesla Motors, a company that designs and manufactures premium electric vehicles. Tesla was able to succeed in the electric car market where other large manufacturers failed due to lack of innovative ideas.
Elon recently launched the Tesla Model 3 at the Tesla Design Studio in Hawthorne which will hit the market in 2017. The new model starts at $35000 and accelerates to 60mph in 6 sec. This is a next level car with exciting features. It’s Musk’s vision and innovative ideas that has led to the making of this different league model. More than 1,80,000 pre-orders were received by Tesla in a day for Model 3. Tesla is also planning to enter India in 2016.
Success of Tesla has paved way for vehicles that are stylish, feature rich and cause less harm to environment.
SpaceX
Before the closing of PayPal, he had already started dreaming about a greenhouse, “Mars oasis” which he wanted to land on mars.
Musk decided to start a company that would build affordable rockets, using vertical integration and the modular approach of software engineering. Those ideas resulted in his launch of SpaceX in 2002. His long-term goal is to help humanity through SpaceX by creating a true spacefaring civilization.
Creating a reliable rocket that successfully gets into space was not an easy job. No one wanted to invest in SpaceX because everyone believed it to be over ambitious and a venture with pretty less hope of being successful . Musk invested his own personal funds worth $100M in SpaceX. However, SpaceX was on the verge of closing due to lack of funds when three attempts to launch a rocket failed. In 2008 SpaceX did a launch of Falcon 1 launch vehicle which failed. Elon took the stage and motivated employees for the next attempt saying that rocket science is not an easy thing and failures are bound to happen. Motivated team investigated the issue and was ready with next rocket in 7 weeks which otherwise would have taken a year for any other company. On sept 28th SpaceX successfully launched the rocket and became world’s first private venture to launch rocket in earth’s orbit. An achievement that was limited to only 6 mightiest nations of the world. After this SpaceX got an offer for $1.6 billion to carry out 12 launches for NASA.
Another feather was added to Musk’s cap last week after the launch of futuristic pop-up room and landing of the unmanned Falcon rocket at Atlantic sea. SpaceX resumed station deliveries for NASA on Friday and landed its booster rocket on an ocean platform for the first time.The innovations at SpaceX has resulted in cheapest cost of launching rockets in the history.
SpaceX is currently working on a new spacecraft, which will allow humans to travel in space and take ride from earth to moon. SpaceX is making a much larger rocket that will be able to bring 100 people to Mars at once. Google and Fidelity has now invested in SpaceX.
Success of SpaceX is the result of Musk’s quest of a fantastic future. His vision is worth appreciating. Take a bow!
Solarcity
The company was co-founded by Elon Musk in 2006. Solarcity produces the world’s most efficient rooftop solar panels with a market cap of just under $6 billion and has become the largest installer of solar panels in the US. Solarcity is now building the country’s largest solar panel-manufacturing factory in Buffalo.
Tesla and SolarCity companies are making a pollution free, environment friendly renewable energy future a reality.
Man at the helm for an innovative future
Musk “the world’s most remarkable living entrepreneur” is undoubtedly an epitome of an entrepreneur, inventor and a business magnate. He is truly the real life Iron Man. In case you don’t know, parts of Iron Man 2 were actually filmed inside and outside of SpaceX and musk even had a cameo in the film.
His ideas are the most ambitious ideas so far. He is a true leader who can envision and lead people to a better world and better future.
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