SpaceX

SpaceX Pulls Off First Reused Rocket Mission in Triumph for Musk
published Mar 30th 2017, 5:37 pm, by Dana Hull (Bloomberg) — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. re-flew a rocket that had previously been in orbit for the first time ever, a significant milestone in Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s mission to employ reusability as a means to reducing the cost of

Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Neural Networks and Suspicious Edge
published Mar 28th 2017, 8:28 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — Neural networks Consider a quant searching for factors that might push a stock over a benchmark index. Today an analyst has to manually select factors like price-earnings ratios to test. A quant using deep learning gives the neural

SPACE-X LAUNCH A SUCCESS – Here come the Jetsons : A Well Thought Out Scream by James Riordan
The Era of Private Enterprise Space Transportation is upon us. Can flying cars and the Jetsons be far behind? A Falcon 9 rocket roared into the sky on Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California carrying ten communications satellites — a return by SpaceX and its billionaire leader, Elon

Why Would Anyone Want a One-Way Ticket to Mars?: Elaine Ou
published Sep 28th 2016, 11:34 am, by Elaine Ou (Bloomberg View) — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a splash at the International Astronautical Conference in Mexico with his plans for an Interplanetary Transport System, along with a disturbingly inspirational ultimatum: “There are really two fundamental paths. One path is we

SpaceX Rocket Misses Barge Landing After Successful Launch
©2015 Bloomberg News NMTI016KLVRE (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched an unmanned Falcon 9 on a resupply mission to the International Space Station but narrowly missed a second attempt to recover the rocket’s first stage. The rocket, carrying its Dragon cargo spacecraft and 4,300 pounds (1,950 kilograms) of supplies and