The American tycoons apparently prepared for the UN Climate Change Conference (which kicked off in Glasgow, Scotland on the weekend) aboard luxurious superyachts in the Aegean Sea. According to the British media, the weekly rental price of Gate’s vessel is $2 million. On Friday, the world’s second richest man, Jeff …
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Bezos’ aerospace firm and its partner Sierra Space unveiled the plans on Monday in a joint press release, saying they are aiming to build “a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station” dubbed the “Orbital Reef,” which they intend to have up and running in some capacity sometime between 2025 …
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At the Code Conference on Tuesday, journalist Kara Swisher asked Musk about the complaints over competing satellite-based internet plans that Bezos’ Blue Origin filed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against SpaceX. “I think he should put more energy in getting to orbit than lawsuits,” Musk replied, drawing loud laugher …
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Bezos is rumored to be among the investors in Altos Labs, a start-up incorporated in Delaware earlier this year. Though the company hasn’t made an official announcement, a securities disclosure filed with California in June said it has raised at least $270 million, according to a story in the MIT …
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The latest salvo in an ongoing one-sided war of words was prompted by a letter an Amazon subsidiary sent this week to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in which it urged the agency to reject SpaceX’s plans to deploy another group of satellites to power Starlink. Earlier in the …
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Blue Origin filed its suit with the US Court of Federal Claims under a protective order on Monday The company’s lawyers describe it as a challenge to NASA’s “unlawful and improper evaluation of proposals submitted” under the Project Artemis call for submissions. Blue Origin’s initial $5.9 billion lunar landing system …
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Mineral exploration company KoBold Metals, which is backed by the billionaires, signed a deal with Bluejay Mining this week to mine Greenland for resources that can be used in electric vehicles. KoBold uses artificial intelligence to search for materials and the company is paying $15 million for the exploration project …
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) rejected Blue Origin’s protest on Friday, stating that NASA was within its rights to select a single company – SpaceX – to build its lander. NASA signed a contract worth almost $3 billion with SpaceX in April, after earlier saying it would take bids from …
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“Space exploration isn’t a tax-free holiday for the wealthy,” Blumenauer, a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement on Tuesday. Members of Congress also have begun thinking about regulating space tourism on concerns over public safety and air traffic, but a moratorium on such …
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After briefly floating in space, the craft descended back to Earth, using parachutes to guide it back to the flat terrain of west Texas. Bezos was joined by his brother Mark, female aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutch teenager whose wealthy father paid for an auctioned …
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