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WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday proposed a $175,000 civil penalty against SpaceX for failing to submit some safety data to the agency prior to an August 2022 launch of Starlink satellites. The FAA said SpaceX was required to submit the information, known as launch collision analysis trajectory data, directly to the agency at least seven days prior to an attempted launch. The data is used to assess the probability of the launch vehicle colliding with one of the thousands of tracked objects orbiting the Earth. SpaceX has 30 days to respond to the FAA after receiving the penalty notice. In 2021, the FAA revised SpaceX commercial launch requirements to mandate that an FAA safety inspector be present for every flight at its Boca Chica launch facility after the FAA said the company violated license requirements for a Starship launch.

☆ Elon Musk says SpaceX is planning to attempt a launch of its Starship spacecraft in March
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Starship could launch next month "if remaining tests go well." The SpaceX CEO's comment came in response to a Twitter user asking if Starship was almost ready for launch. Two crewed missions to the moon, Artemis 3 and 4, are expected to launch in 2025 and 2027. The Starship test flight will launch from the Starbase spaceport site in Boca Chica, Texas, federal filings show. SpaceX is yet to officially announce a date for its Starship launch and did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ A Mexico soccer icon entered politics. Prosecutors say narcos followed
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Cuernavaca | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +27 min

Regional politicians, officials and military officers gathered in the Morelos state capital of Cuernavaca for breakfast in February 2022 to mark Mexico’s annual Army day. Mexican drug lords have a long tradition of buying off politicians in exchange for government protection of their illicit trade. Attempts to reach two of the alleged drug traffickers in the photo – Figueroa and Irving Solano Vera – were unsuccessful. Prosecutors in April asked the Morelos state congress to impeach Blanco so that he could be stripped of that shield. “He likes me very much because I’m not a politician,” Blanco told Reuters, in reference to the president.

☆ A space news website was locked out of Twitter while covering a SpaceX launch, its editor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Spaceflight Now was locked out of Twitter while covering a SpaceX rocket launch, its editor says. It's unclear which Twitter rules Spaceflight Now may have violated, or why its tweet was taken down. The website's editor, Stephen Clark, said in a tweet that the account had been locked "for violating unspecified rules while covering a SpaceX launch." As of Tuesday afternoon, the Spaceflight Now Twitter account did not appear to be suspended, but was marked with a banner saying that its most recent tweet had violated Twitter rules. In December, Twitter suddenly suspended the accounts of several prominent journalists who had been covering Musk and his takeover of the company.

☆ SpaceX raising $750 million at a $137 billion valuation, investors include Andreessen-Horowitz
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's re-usable rocket maker and satellite internet company, SpaceX, is raising $750 million in a new round of funding that values the company at $137 billion, according to correspondence obtained by CNBC. Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that SpaceX was allowing insiders to sell at $77 per share, which would have put the company's valuation near $140 billion. The company raised more than $2 billion in 2022, including a $250 million round in July, and was valued at $127 billion during an equity round in May, CNBC previously reported. According to an e-mail sent to prospective SpaceX investors, Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) will likely lead the new funding round. A16z also participated in Elon Musk's leveraged buyout of Twitter, a $44 billion deal that closed in late October 2022.

☆ Elon Musk responded to a Twitter user claiming not to own a home when asked if he'd be subjected to FBI raids
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk told a Twitter user asking when the FBI would raid his home that he doesn't own one. The Tesla CEO sold his seven homes between June 2020 and November 2021 for a total of $128 million. Musk sold all of his seven California homes between June 2020 and November 2021 for $128 million after vowing to "own no house" in 2020, Insider previously reported. This summer Musk told The Full Send podcast he now lives in a "very small" house in Boca Chica, Texas, that only cost $45,000. "My friends come and stay and they can't believe I'm staying in this house," Musk said on the podcast in August.

☆ In pictures: SpaceX's Starship rocket explodes after launch
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft, atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket, explodes after its launch from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on a brief uncrewed test flight near Brownsville, Texas, April 20, 2023. Less than four minutes into...moreSpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft, atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket, explodes after its launch from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on a brief uncrewed test flight near Brownsville, Texas, April 20, 2023. Less than four minutes into the flight, the upper-stage Starship failed to separate as designed from the lower-stage Super Heavy, and the combined vehicle was seen flipping end over end before exploding. The spacecraft reached a peak altitude of nearly 20 miles (32 km) before its fiery disintegration. REUTERS/Joe SkipperClose

☆ Spain's steely roller derby skaters championing inclusivity in sport
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Horaci Garcia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A view of tattoos on the leg of a skater of Barcelona’s Steel Groin roller derby team as the skaters stand during a training session in Barcelona, Spain November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Nacho Doce 1 2 3 4 5There are about 25 roller derby teams in Spain and over 1,200 leagues worldwide, mostly in the United States. Roller derby was developed in the United States in the 1930s. The Barcelona team began playing on the streets of the coastal city in 2010 and registered as a club in April 2011. "I'm able to be myself in roller derby".

☆ SpaceX just bought a big ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

SpaceX founder Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The ad campaign SpaceX is buying to promote Starlink is called a Twitter "takeover." Users should see Starlink brand messaging for the first three times that they open the Twitter app on the day or days of the planned takeover campaign in Australia and in Spain. Pressure on Twitter ad salesMusk is also the CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla , in addition to his responsibilities at SpaceX and Twitter. Instead, Tesla garners headlines from fan blogs, news sites, and creates buzz through motor clubs, fan or shareholder events and social media engagement.

☆ The House member who received Elon Musk's first vote for a Republican lost her seat after only 5 months
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The GOP candidate whom Elon Musk says got his first Republican vote lost her race. Musk said he voted for Mayra Flores in the June special election she won in Texas. Texas GOP Rep. Mayra Flores lost her seat in the state's 34th Congressional District to Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez by a wide margin. "I voted for Mayra Flores – first time I ever voted Republican," he said in June, adding: "Massive red wave in 2022." It's unclear who Musk voted for in this election, though on Monday he tweeted to advocate voting Republican in Congressional races.

☆ See how NASA's new lunar mega-rocket sizes up to past and future astronaut launch systems
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Space Launch System (SLS) is 17 years and an estimated $50 billion in the making. The Space Launch System (SLS) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 17, 2022. This first mission, called Artemis I, is a test flight that will carry no astronauts. The current iteration of SLS, called Block 1, stands taller than the Statue of Liberty at 322 feet, about 30 stories. NASA/Cory HustonIf Artemis I goes well, the next SLS mission will send an Orion spaceship around the moon with astronauts on board.

☆ Elon Musk's mom, Maye, says she sleeps in a 'garage' when she visits him because 'you can't have a fancy house near a rocket site'
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-27 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Maye Musk says she has to "sleep in the garage" when she visits her son at SpaceX's headquarters. "You can't have a fancy house near a rocket site," she told The Times UK. Elon Musk has said he lives in a "very small" three-bedroom house in Texas, worth $45,000. "You can't have a fancy house near a rocket site." When asked in the Times UK interview if Elon was interested in material possessions, Maye said, "No, not at all in that sense."

☆ Liquid nitrogen leaked onto wetlands around SpaceX launch pad before rocket-test explosion, federal regulators confirm
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-15 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

There was a liquid-nitrogen leak at SpaceX's Texas launch site, federal regulators told Bloomberg. An aerial video shows patches of wetland that are snow-white from the liquid-nitrogen leak. Elon Musk's aerospace company uses liquid nitrogen as a coolant when launching rockets. Bloomberg reported that the leak happened three days before SpaceX's Starship rocket booster prototype burst into flames at the launch site. SpaceX didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider about the liquid-nitrogen leak outside normal business hours.

Shivon Zilis was pictured for the first time alongside Elon Musk and their twins on Wednesday. Musk quietly fathered twins with Zilis, a director at Neuralink, in 2021. She has a high-level role at NeuralinkIn 2017, Zilis joined Neuralink, the futuristic brain microchip company also co-founded by Musk. Tesla's new Gigafactory is located near Austin, and court documents obtained by Insider show list Musk and Zilis as residents of that address. Zilis and Musk's twins were born in November, a few weeks before Musk and the musician Grimes had their second child via surrogate.

Persons: Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk, Musk, Zilis, Elon Musk's, Walter Isaacson, —, Isaacson, Musk wasn't, Twitter —, Justine, Grimes, he's, Ray Kurzweil, I've, Sam Altman, Neuralink, Tesla, Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, ck Elon Musk, Gonzalez, Austin Zilis Organizations: Elon, Service, SpaceX, Twitter, Yale University, Yale, IBM, Bloomberg Beta, Forbes, Canadian, Conference, Neuralink, California Locations: Zilis, Wall, Silicon, Austin, Ontario, Canada, Markham , Ontario, California, Texas, Boca Chica, South Texas

☆ Elon Musk wants SpaceX's biggest rocket ready to launch in July, but experts say he may not get his wish
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-26 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk might not be ready to launch SpaceX's Starship rocket in July, space industry experts say. SpaceX has to carry out the FAA's 75 actions by then, but two experts said they were fairly minor. Starship is a fully reusable rocket that SpaceX wants to send to the Earth's orbit and outer space. With July just days away, experts in the space industry aren't convinced Starship will be ready to launch by then. SpaceX and Musk have predicted various dates for the Starship launch.

☆ Elon Musk says SpaceX's Starship rocket will be ready to fly in July — but the company needs to comply with the FAA's 75 terms first
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-15 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk said SpaceX's Starship spacecraft will be ready to launch into orbit in July. A second Starship prototype will fly in August and SpaceX is planning monthly flights, Musk said. "Starship will be ready to fly next month," Musk tweeted. His tweets came after the FAA found no significant environmental impact with SpaceX's launch site in Boca Chica, meaning the company can expand its launch site in South Texas, known as Starbase. Before SpaceX launches Starship, it needs to take more than 75 actions, listed in the FAA's 43-page review, to mitigate the environmental impacts.

☆ A woman has been charged with trespassing after entering SpaceX's Texas facility because she wanted to speak to Elon Musk, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-06 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Cameron County has charged a woman with trespassing SpaceX's facility in Texas, Sheriff Garza said. The 20-year-old said she was a SpaceX worker and wanted to speak to Elon Musk, per a press release. Parker had stated that she worked at SpaceX and wanted to speak to Musk, the press release said. SpaceX's facility in south Texas, near Boca Chica village, is where the company plans to launch its Starship rocket from. Police issued an arrest warrant in May 2021 for a YouTuber who got into the SpaceX facility and filmed himself walking around the launch site, near the Starship rocket.

☆ 'Perfect for SpaceX employees': Texas locals unhappy as realtors lure Elon Musk's engineers with listings
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-04 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Realtors in south Texas are tailoring house listings to SpaceX workers, but residents aren't happy. "Perfect for SpaceX workers" and "just minutes away from SpaceX" are written on some listings. Brownsville locals told Insider they are upset that realtors are luring SpaceX staff to the area. One property for rent is described as "perfect for SpaceX workers," while others are considered "just minutes away from SpaceX" and "conveniently located near SpaceX and Boca Chica beach." Grove said he even set up a subsidiary of GRT called "Starbase Realty" designed to cater for SpaceX workers.

☆ Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket site expansion coincides with a decline in bird numbers in the local area, investigators say
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-04 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

SpaceX's expansion of its Texas rocket site correlates with falling bird numbers, officials say. SpaceX wants to expand the site with another launch and landing pad ahead of a Starship rocket launch. Elon Musk's space company wants to expand its Texas rocket site, Starbase, by adding a second launch and landing pad where the company's huge Starship rocket can lift off from. The wildlife agency's letter was part of the FAA's environmental review of SpaceX's plans at its Boca Chica rocket launch site. SpaceX can only carry out orbital launches of the Starship rocket once the FAA finishes its assessment and gives the company the green light.

☆ SpaceX's Texas expansion plans hit by a fourth FAA delay over environmental concerns
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-30 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The FAA has delayed issuing its review of SpaceX's proposed expansion at its Texas launch site. Getting the FAA's sign-off is key to SpaceX's plans to launch its huge Starship rocket into orbit. The company can only begin orbital launches of its huge Starship rocket once the FAA's assessment is complete. SpaceX's expansion plans hit another hurdle last month as the US Army Corps of Engineers wanted more information on the environmental impact of the plans on local endangered species and surrounding areas. It is not clear whether the repeated delays have impacted the likelihood of an orbital Starship launch.

☆ SpaceX has become the largest employer in Brownsville, Texas, and estimates $885 million gross output for the county it’s based in, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-23 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The company estimates a gross output of $885 million for the county. The company expects to contribute $885 million in gross economic output for Cameron County, Brownsville Mayor Trey Mendez said on Thursday at the "State of the City" event, per the outlet. SpaceX wanted to expand its Brownsville site and add another launchpad but US Army Corps halted the plans earlier this month as it sought more data. The Brownville-based rocket production site, called Starbase, first started testing rocket engines and flights in 2019. The company started buying up Cameron County properties as early as 2012 and unveiled Texas as its launch site in 2014.

☆ 'If it blows up, it's cool': The far-out philosophy that explains why Elon Musk won't let a few baby sea turtles stop SpaceX's quest to get to Mars
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

In the case of Elon Musk v. Charismatic Megafauna, the agency intends to publish its final report in late April. Musk went on: "Either explicitly or implicitly some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth's surface. Musk is talking about existential risk, the idea that something — an asteroid, a rogue artificial intelligence — might kill every human on Earth. And if you assume that future human minds will "mainly be implemented in computational hardware instead of biological neuronal wetware," as Bostrom does, you end up with a mind-boggling 1054 human lives. Musk has made the defense of "future life" his mission.

☆ Elon Musk, al doilea cel mai bogat om din lume, locuiește cu chirie într-o casă de 50.000 de euro. „Este minunată”
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-29 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaElon Musk, al doilea cel mai bogat om din lume, locuiește cu chirie într-o casă de 50.000 de euro. „Este minunată”Cel mai influent miliardar al lumii, omul care vrea să ducă omenirea pe Marte, Elon Musk, a împlinit ieri 50 de ani. În ultimul an, Elon Musk și-a vândut toate proprietățile imobiliare. Dar este minunată” a scris Musk pe twitter. În luna iulie, SpaceX, compania lui Musk, va avea prima misiune pe orbită pentru Starship, racheta construită să ducă oameni pe planeta Marte.

Persons: Marte, Tesla Organizations: uc Locations: oam

Şeful producătorului de maşini electrice a scris luna aceasta pe Twitter că mai are o singură casă în zona San Francisco Bay pe care a închiriat-o pentru diverse evenimente. Musk, 49 de ani, şi-a anunţat prima dată planurile de a-şi vinde proprietăţile în urmă cu peste un an ca rezultat al criticilor aduse la vasta sa avere. Musk nu a plătit niciun impozit federal pe profit în 2018 şi a achitat mai puţin de 70.000 de dolari în 2015 şi 2017, conform raportului. Ulterior, Musk a scris pe Twitter că va plăti impozite pe venit în California în funcţie de timpul pe care îl va petrece în interiorul statului, despre care spune că va fi semnificativ. În prezent, CEO-ul Tesla locuieşte într-o casă de aproximativ 50.000 de dolari din Boca Chica,Texas.

Persons: San Francisco Bay, ProPublica, Amazon Jeff, Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett, ., Musk, Tesla Organizations: Amazon, FBI Locations: San Francisco, California, american, SUA, Boca Chica, Texas

☆ Kim Jong Un a interzis purtarea blugilor rupţi sau skinny în Coreea de Nord
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-24 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Liderul nord-coreean Kim Jong Un a interzis purtarea blugilor rupţi sau „skinny”, dar şi a tunsorilor de tip „mullet” (specifice anilor '80: părul tuns scurt în faţă şi lăsat să crească lung la spate, sub formă de chică). Măsura are ca principal scop menţinerea tineretului nord-coreean departe de tendinţele „decadente” ale modei din Vest, informează agenţia sud-coreeană de presă Yonhap, scrie digi24.ro. Un apel în acest sens a fost făcut într-un articol apărut în Rodong Sinmun - publicaţia Partidului Muncitoresc Coreean - în care s-a arătat că „tentativele de a implementa socialismul în alte ţări au eşuat din cauza invaziei stilului de viaţă capitalist”. Tunsorile „mullet” au fost şi ele interzise din aceste motive. Nu e de mirare, din moment ce în Coreea de Nord, femeile au la dispoziţie doar 18 tipuri de tunsori standard, iar bărbaţii îşi aranjează coafura după modelul liderului suprem Kim Jong Un.

Persons: coreean Kim Jong, coreeană ., Kim Jong Organizations: Partidului Muncitoresc Coreean Locations: coreean, - coreean, Vest, coreeană, Coreea de Nord

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