Yusaku Maezawa to be first private passenger to fly around Moon on SpaceX vehicle

Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has signed the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard the BFR launch vehicle.

International News: A globally recognised art curator and fashion innovator, Japan’s Yusaku Maezawa will be the first private passenger to fly around the Moon on board the BFR, according to billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Yusaku will be bringing 8 (brave) artists & cultural figures with him on the journey around the moon, tweeted Musk.

SpaceX signing the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard the BFR launch vehicle is an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of travelling to space, according to the company.

Yusaku Maezawa

Lasting about a week, the journey will come as close as 125 miles to the Moon’s surface before completing a lunar transit and returning to the Earth, the company said.

The BFR, or Big Falcon Rocket, is SpaceX's forthcoming spaceship system consisting of two parts — a massive rocket booster that promises to outpower any other ever built, and a towering spacecraft that will vault out of the Earth's atmosphere.

SpaceX’s next generation vehicle BFR will be the most powerful rocket in history, capable of carrying humans to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, the company claims.

Only 24 human beings in history have been to the Moon, and no one since the last Apollo mission in 1972.

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News Source: BS

SpaceX launches Falcon 9 with first broadband internet satellites

SpaceX launch bring Elon Musk’s broadband-internet satellite plan closer to reality.

SpaceX Falcon 9 : Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a customer payload plus its own broadband demonstration satellites in the company’s first mission since millions tuned in earlier this month for its Falcon Heavy debut.

The Thursday launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central Coast carried a radar-imaging satellite for Spain’s Hisdesat Servicios Estrategicos SA. The PAZ satellite will orbit the planet 15 times a day and collect information – including ship tracking and weather data – for government and commercial customers.

The rocket also carried a pair of SpaceX’s own broadband satellites as a secondary payload.

Microsat-2a and -2b are the first prototypes for the company’s planned constellation of satellites – dubbed Starlink – intended to offer broadband internet around the world.
“If successful, Starlink constellation will serve least served,” Musk said in a Tweet Wednesday.

SpaceX’s fourth launch in what is expected to be a record year took off from the California pad at around 6:17 a.m. local time. SpaceX is targeting roughly 30 total launches this year, including flying its new Falcon Heavy rocket again in June.

The PAZ satellite appeared to deploy successfully during SpaceX’s webcast.

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