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 hosted a customer event at its Fremont, California headquarters on Wednesday evening, where it launched its latest third generation V3 Supercharger charging stations. The new V3 Supercharger is specially designed to reduce the charging time for the electric vehicles and can charge some of the Model 3 at a rate of 250kW, making the vehicle capable of running at a speed 75 miles in 5 minutes of charging.
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Due to the high demand of the Tesla cars, especially the Model 3, the requirement for the charging station has also increased. Due to the lesser number of charging stations and with lesser power chargers, the waiting time for the vehicles has been the biggest concern for the Tesla owners.
The
company is also going to the update the battery system for its
vehicle, such that the battery will be able to warm up before
charging, such that the battery will be charged at its peak point for
the maximum time, in order to slash the wait time.
The
new V3 Supercharger is a completely different device from its
predecessor and includes a 1 MW power cabinet and a liquid-cooled
cable design. According to Tesla, after charging a vehicle for an
hour, the vehicle can run to up to 1,000 miles.
The
new V3 Supercharger has also been improved at the charging rates for
Model S and Model vehicles, and it takes 50 per cent lesser time to
charge the mentioned vehicles.
For now, the first few V3 Superchargers have been installed in Fremont available to members of Tesla’s “early access program”. These are few of the Tesla car owners who are allowed to participate in the testing of the latest software and hardware updates from the company.
For
the other users, the V3 Superchargers will be available only in
April, and according to Tesla, by the end of this year, the
Supercharger network will be capable of serving more than twice the
vehicles, it currently provides services to, per day.
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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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There have been many talks about Tesla’s SUV electric vehicle, Model Y. Even the Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been talking about this SUV model since 2015. But the wait might get over soon, as according to some reports, Tesla has sent letters to its shareholders regarding starting the production of the Y model as soon as 2020 ends.
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The
Model Y is going to be a mid-sized SUV vehicle, whose design is yet
to be revealed. Allegedly, the Model Y will be based on the Model 3
sedan, and it will obtain 75 per cent of its parts from the most
affordable Tesla model. Hence the production cost of the Model Y may
be a bit lesser than the Model 3.
Tesla,
basically, has its production line for its other models including S,
X and 3, based in Fremont, but the Model Y may get its own dedicated
production line at Gigafactory in Nevada, since there may not be much
space for the production at Fremont for the Model Y.
The company came up with the plan of starting the production of the Model Y, as a result of a profitable fourth quarter of 2018, reported last year. Tesla said on Wednesday that it made a profit of $139.5 million in the fourth quarter, after recovering a loss of $675.4 million from a year earlier.
Tesla
went public in 2010, and this is the first time that the automaker
has revealed its profits, in consecutive quarters. According to Musk,
the company is ready to invest in new projects and bring improvements
to the older ones. The company has claimed that it will cut the cost
on various Tesla models, will improve its service operations, launch
at least three sedan models for its Chinese and European customers,
and also will start working on its Model Y.
The
Model Y is expected to be a crossover, and that may lead to an
increased demand for Nidel Y over Model 3, resulting in an uptick in
sales, and profit. If we consider the letter Tesla sent to its
shareholders, the year is going to, certainly, be a profitable one
for Tesla.
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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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