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World’s richest males Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos heading for house showdown

By Editorial Board Published January 17, 2025 3 Min Read
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World’s richest males Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos heading for house showdown

The 2 richest folks on the planet are heading for a showdown in house.

Elon Musk versus Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: they each launched prototype rockets on the identical day, a rivalry with billions of {dollars} at stake.

SpaceX’s Starship is fuelled by Musk’s extraordinary urge for food for danger. He innovates by failure, and the seventh check flight did not go solely to plan.

Contact was misplaced with the higher a part of the rocket eight minutes into the flight and engineers can be learning the information to work out why.

However the booster, which had already separated, efficiently returned to base.

On the final check flight it ditched within the sea after a technical glitch. This time it descended at supersonic velocity, slowed to hold in mid-air and was safely grabbed by ‘chopstick’ arms on the launch tower.

It is not only for present. Re-usable rockets are the important thing to driving down launch prices.

Bezos may also use rocket components a number of instances.

His firm, Blue Origin, succeeded in reaching orbit with its personal heavy-lift rocket, New Glenn, on the first try.

That is spectacular, however plans to land the booster stage on a ship within the Atlantic did not work out. Like Starship, it is a work in progress.

On paper Musk has already received the house race together with his rival.

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Final yr his rockets accounted for half of all launches worldwide.

However Bezos can be sanguine. He is on this for the lengthy recreation.

Not solely will New Glenn launch his constellation of broadband satellites to compete with Musk’s Starlink, he already has defence contracts.

And like Musk he has contracts with NASA to take crew and cargo to the moon.

We’re getting into a brand new period of house exploration. And the tech bros that made their fortunes on Earth are getting ready for brand new alternatives within the stars.

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