Business of Space: A peak at NASA’s increasingly lucrative commercial deals June 3, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner offers up a roundup of the most important news across the space industry, every Friday. Next generation spacesuits SpaceX vs Boeing This weekend’s launches Next generation spacesuits Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace have been tasked with building the next generation of spacesuits for NASA, as the US agency looks to get boots on the Moon. The [...]
Crypto Spot Volumes Reach Record Lows for 2022 as Bitcoin Miners Offload Their BTC July 25, 2022 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of Bitcoin moved sideways throughout the last week, starting at $22,000 and quickly surging to $24,000, before enduring a correction that took BTC right back to where it started. Ethereum’s ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, moved slightly upward, starting the week at around $1,500 and moving [...]
Watford FC to feature Doge on football shirts August 16, 2021 Watford’s shirt sleeve sponsor for the upcoming 2021-22 season will be the meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin. According to an insider at Watford FC, the deal is worth upwards of £700,000 and will exceed the £1m sponsorship deal which the Premier League club inked with its previous sleeve partners Bitcoin if the bonus conditions are met. Dogecoin [...]
Editorial: Here’s to the billionaires heading for the final frontier October 14, 2021 So it’s beam me up, Bezos, as Captain Kirk almost said. Yesterday William Shatner became the oldest man to see space, sent off to near-orbit by Amazon’s Jeff on Blue Origin. To some, the competition between Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and no doubt other soon-to-emerge billionaires is a sign of the worst of [...]
Bitcoin and Ethereum take a back seat as alt coins gate-crash the weekend parties October 31, 2022 It was a weekend where the major cryptocurrencies sat back and watched various altcoins take centre stage.
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin donates $1.2 billion of Doge doppelgangers to India’s Covid effort May 12, 2021 Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has been applauded for a charitable act that put a leash on dog meme coins and handed $1.2 billion to India’s Covid-19 relief fund.
Tesla temporarily freezes production at California assembly plant February 25, 2021 Tesla, Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company, has told workers it will temporarily freeze parts of production at its assembly plant in California. Workers on a Model 3 production line in the California-based Fremont factory were told their line would be down from Monday until 7 March, according to Bloomberg. Impacted staff expected to take holiday [...]
Bezos invests in start up seeking to reverse the ageing process September 6, 2021 Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos has reportedly become the latest ultra rich tech entrepreneur to invest in life-extending technology. Jeff Bezos, worth some $200bn (£145bn), and Yuri Milner, a Russian-born billionaire who made his fortune through Facebook, are backers of Altos Labs according to The MIT Technology Review. Altos is pursuing cell reprogramming, a method of rejuvenating [...]
Business of Space: Not only doing the hard things, but the ‘right thing’ April 2, 2022 This week Blue Origin creates six more astronauts SpaceX teams up with OneWeb Seraphim Space piles into Pixxel Blue Origin: Space tourists aplenty Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully completed its fourth tourist flight to space on Thursday, marking the increasing accessibility of space – to the few that can afford it. Bezos, who made his [...]
Who wants to be a trillionaire? Musk in the race as Tesla profits hit record October 21, 2021 Morgan Stanley analysts believe Tesla’s founder and chief executive Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire after the company’s results hit records, the Telegraph reported. The company’s revenues jumped 57 per cent to $13.7bn, with an operating income of $2bn and a 30 per cent increase in automotive gross margin while its shares more [...]