The Japanese billionaire who commissioned SpaceX for a private mission around the moon on a Starship rocket has abruptly canceled the project, citing lingering uncertainties about when the launch vehicle will be ready to fly. “I signed the contract in 2018, thinking that DearMoon would launch at the end of 2023,” Yusaku Maezawa, the project’s … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tens of thousands of Tesla’s international retail shareholders, with about $17 billion in shares, may not be able to vote at the annual meeting because investment platforms have failed to set up adequate cross-border systems. … Read more
By Natasha Livingstone Royal Correspondent Published: 5:02 PM EDT, June 1, 2024 | Updated: 5:18 PM EDT, June 1, 2024 Staff at the prestigious hospital at the center of a data breach of the Princess of Wales’s personal medical records may have suffered a decoy trap set by managers, experts believe. The MoS can reveal … Read more
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will not shoot to the moon with SpaceX’s Starship after all. Maezawa, who booked a private trip around the moon in 2018 on SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket, has now scrapped the project – which he called dearMoon – after the rocket wasn’t ready to fly him and eight hand-picked artists in 2023. … Read more
In recent weeks, reports have surfaced that Take-Two has shut down Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games and OlliOlli World developer Roll7. Now IGN has learned that these closures are not only imminent, but that they are part of a larger move by Take-Two to sell or close its indie label, Private Division. Earlier … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply log in to the Financial services myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox. Earlier this week, MainFT reported that hedge funds are complaining that their fundraising efforts have been hurt by the amount of money investors have locked up in private equity funds – which pay no returns. … Read more
NASA’s iconic Hubble Observatory still has years to live, and there are ideas in the works to perhaps keep it running even longer — but those proposals could face an uphill battle. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, has been serviced by astronauts five times and remains in good health. But the telescope is … Read more