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When Spacex suffered his worst incident, Elon Musk blamed a sniper of the competition. The FBI had to intervene

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On the morning of September 1, 2016, Spacex suffered one of the most cautious and controversial incidents in its history. A Falcon 9 rocket that was vertical on the launch platform Suddenly exploded With the Israeli satellite A Amos-6 aboard. Elon Musk accused the competition. A violent explosion. It was one of the first times that Spacex operated the Falcon 9 rocket with cryogenic propelants, a technique that consists in superfrging the fuel and oxidant to maximize its performance. Before the launch, Spacex had planned a static ignition test, a routine procedure in which engines are tested with the rocket anchored to the platform, but everything was twisted eight minutes before ignition. A violent explosion transformed what was a rocket into a huge fireball. The payload was shot. Mark Zuckerberg’s anger. The AMOS-6 satellite was not any load. With a cost of 200 million dollars, he had a powerful customer: Mark Zuckerberg. Goal, then Facebook, had reached an agreement to provide Free Internet Access in Africa Thanks to the satellite. After the explosion, Zuck He publicly expressed A “deep disappointment” for the rocket explosion, comments that did not sit well in Spacex, where morality was on the ground. According to Ars Techcnicathis incident was one of the points of origin of the bad relationship between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, which years later would lead the first to eliminate Spacex and Tesla’s Facebook pages. The theory of the sniper. The most trospid of the incident was, however, the theory promoted by Elon Musk about the possible intervention of a sniper. Theory in which Spacex insisted throughout the official investigation of the incident, According to documentation that has just become public. Although Spacex engineers shuffled hundreds of hypotheses, Elon Musk promoted the idea of ​​an external sabotage: the shot of a sniper. It sounds crazy, but Musk saw the two main indications convincing: the break began about 60 meters high, on the side of the rocket that looked towards a building leased by its main competitor, United Launch Alliance. An alleged ULA shot. The ULA building, a joint business of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, was a kilometer and a half of the Spacex launch platform, a reasonable distance for a sniper. Put to believe, even seemed to see a flash on the roof of the building, coinciding with the time it would take a projectile to reach the rocket. The rivalry between SpaceX and ULA had then reached its peak. Ul still dominated the market of military and government launches, the most lucrative, but Spacex had just won a battle in the courts to compete for these contracts. However, accusing a sabotage competitor without evidence was a serious accusation. The FBI came to intervene. Azuzados by Musk, Spacex engineers thoroughly investigated the sniper theory. They tried to access the ULA roof and performed shooting against pressurized helium tanks to see if they exploited similarly to Falcon 9. The insistence was such that the Federal Aviation Administration had to intervene with a letter that denied the involvement of third parties. There was no sniper, although, as the documentation of the journalist Eric Berger has revealed For your book Recentryeven the FBI investigated the case. The federal agents reviewed the Spacex analysis and the video material, but they concluded that “there were no indications that suggested that sabotage or any other criminal activity played a role in the explosion of Falcon 9”. With this, FAA considered the closed matter. What happened then. The real cause of the rocket explosion and, with it, of the AMOS-6 satellite, was the process of loading propellents. In its eagerness to accelerate the refueling process with super -refrained liquid oxygen, the Spacex equipment filled the helium tanks too fast, heating the aluminum coating of the rocket and causing its deformation and rupture. Spacex would put the hair of Punta to the NASA security office for its procedure “Load and Go”, which proposed to raise astronauts to the rocket before loading fuel. Over time, not only would demonstrate the reliability of Falcon 9 (Last year he completed 137 launches against the five of ULA), but would become the main supplier of NASA manned releases to the International Space Station. Images | And combinator, Uslaunchreport, CNN Money (YouTube) In Xataka | Texas has a new city. Until a few days ago, it was only Spacex’s base in Boca Chica

Altman’s plan to attract private investment to OpenAI has stayed halfway. It’s a victory for Elon Musk

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Openai has conquered a place at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) with products such as Chatgpt and GPT-4O. But there is a detail that escapes in many conversations: It is still a startup. It is several times smaller than Microsoft or Google and faces an existential challenge that does not have so much to do with its products, but with money. That challenge has its own name: its peculiar organizational structure. The openai part that generates income, directed by Sam Altmanis controlled by a non -profit organization. This unconventional model has aroused doubts among investors. Altman proposed to restructure the company to attract more private capital and accelerate the path to a General Artificial Intelligence (AGI). The problem is that this plan has just received a blow. A difficult governance to sell. The Board of Directors has decided to maintain control from the non -profit entity, after opening conversations with the general prosecutors of California and Delaware. These authorities monitor the legal status of organizations of this type and could have blocked change. The announcement has made it public Bret Taylor, president of the Board, In an official statement from OpenAI. A victory for Musk. Elon Musk had sued Openai for that attempt at reorganization. He assured that the company had diverted from its initial purpose of developing a safe and oriented the good of humanity. The decision to preserve the original supervision partially reinforces its argument: the structure remains, at least for the moment. New model, but with the same control. Despite the other way around, Openai maintains another important change. It is expected that its commercial organization will operate as a public benefit corporation (PBC). The difference is that, instead of separating itself from the non -profit organization, it will continue to have the last word. Now they are negotiating how that supervision will be articulated, but everything indicates that it will be the non -profit organization that designates the members of the Board of the New PBC. This could hinder future financing rounds. Because in this OpenAi, which has not managed to transform completely, interest is not measured only into dividends, as investors would like. Outstanding image | Sam Altman (X) + Photoshop | Ted Conference In Xataka | Silicon Valley has an obsession with “Todismo”: they begin by dominating a sector and then wanting to dominate them all

Two workers from Elon Musk in Doge agreed to a private network. The US keeps the secrets of your nuclear arsenal there

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In February, one of the most rocambolesque stories was known around Doge, the Government Efficiency Department led by Elon Musk to essence, cut where he can in the administration of the United States Government. Apparently, they fired 350 officials who had to Readmit rapidly. The reason: they were the specialists in the assembly of nuclear eyelets. The story has now taken a more dangerous turn. The access they should never have. I told it a few hours ago exclusively NPR through confidential information access. Apparently, it was revealed that two young employees of that government efficiency department (Doge) created under the orders of Elon Musk, obtained accounts in classified networks With nuclear information highly sensitive. What’s doubt, the news has unleashed a political storm and national security in the United States. Luke Farritor, a former 23 -year -old Spacex fellow, and Adam Ramada, a Angel Investor Without previous experience in armament or intelligence, they appeared for at least two weeks in the directories of the reserved systems of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and the Department of Defense, according to sources with direct access to the networks. From denial to confirmation. The media counted that, although the energy department first denied any link, later admitted that the accounts Yes they were createdalthough they insisted that never They were activated nor used. So, the medium NPR remembers that the mere existence of these accounts, in maximum security environments that normally require a “Q” accreditation (The highest level of authorization of the DOE), has aroused alarm among experts, who interpret it as a sign of the growing and worrying doge penetration in critical areas of the state apparatus. All nuclear information. To understand the importance of the network to which they have had access, let’s think that the systems accessed by these employees are not mere confidential data repositories: these are networks that store and transmit plans for nuclear weapons design, special materials for their manufacture and strategic communications between laboratories, production centers and the pentagon. The first one, the NNSA Enterprise Secure Networkserves to share Restricted data between key actors of nuclear arsenal. The second, Siprnetallows the flow of information classified between the Department of Energy and Defense, including operations that could compromise national security if they were disclosed. Although it appears in the access directories does not equals to directly see classified documents (by the policy of “Need To Know”), experts Consulted by NPR They emphasize that it is the technical “head” that could provide future applications or expand the scope of influence within those platforms. Shadows on transparency. Plus: the incident adds to a series of controversial episodes starred By Doge In other federal agencies. As we count in February, a purge in the NSA directed by Doge (reviring only partially after public pressure) caused the dismissal of dozens of nuclear area employees. Shortly after, an informant denounced that Doge members had accessed internal systems of the National Board of Labor Relations (NLRB), requesting that They will not register their activities and deactivating monitoring tools, in addition to delete access traces. Not just that. One of the income attempts was made from an IP address located in Russia Using credentials created by Doge, which unleashed new suspicions and ignited cybersecurity alerts in several sectors of the government. These movements, added to the recent scandal by the use of signal application On the part of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to discuss sensitive military operations, they delineate a dangerous informality pattern and reckless management of critical information of the nation. The Doge experiment. Thus, the very existence of Doge, an entity born to “modernize the State” under the tutelage of Musk, begins to be questioned even between related sectorsgiven its opaque growth and the lack of accountability. His model (which combines entrepreneurs, technologists and actors outside the public administration) was sold as a response to the traditional bureaucracy, but it is generating fissures in institutional security and control systems. The case of Farritor and Ramadapeople without experience in intelligence or defense, shows the risks of introducing private operators in the ultrasecreta spheres of the State without proper safeguards. While the Department of Energy avoids giving explanations about why these accounts were created, analysts such as Hans Kristensen, of the Nuclear Information Projectthey warn that even unlacified budgets require delicate technical referencesand that any “ajar door” can have unpredictable consequences. A parallel state. The truth is that, far from being an isolated incident, Doge insertion into nuclear networks reveals a broader and more dangerous trend: the emergence of a administrative power not electedwith access to privileged information, but without clear legal mandate or sufficient democratic supervision. If you want also, it implies that the logic of “technocratic” access overlaps institutional logic, and in that scenario the state becomes a testing ground for Operators with own agendas. The consequences of this reconfiguration are still in development (even overlaps Musk’s output), but the scandal leaves a warning meridianly clear: when the obsession with efficiency eliminates controls, which is gained at speed can cost very expensive, at least, In security. Image | Gage Skidmore In Xataka | Elon Musk fired hundreds of employees and now he has to hire them again: they were experts in nuclear weapons In Xataka | Elon Musk fired 6,000 employees two weeks ago. Now the US faces the massive entry of invasive species

The White House will try to reduce NASA’s scientific budget by 50%. It is so devastating that Elon Musk has separated

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The White House has presented a preliminary proposal of its budgets by 2026. If the United States Congress approved them, NASA would see 20% less money next year, but with an especially controversial turn, because they would be cuts centered on science. A devastating loss. NASA is the largest and most influential space agency in the world. Its direction of scientific missions finances some of the most important research for the advancement of astrophysics, planetary science, terrestrial science and heliophysics. Studies in which international entities such as the European Space Agency often participate. The White House budget in half reduces the resources of the Directorate of Scientific Missions. It would go from 7.5 billion dollars in the fiscal year from 2025 to 3.9 billion in 2026. The consequences are so devastating for the scientific community that Elon Musk has described it as “worrying” and It has come out to clarify that has not had anything to do: “I am very in favor of science, but unfortunately I cannot participate in the discussions about NASA’s budget because Spacex is an important NASA contractor.” Affected missions. While the proposal maintains the financing of HUBBLE observatories and James Webb, explicitly cancels other space telescopes, including the Nancy Grace Romanwhich is already completely assembled waiting for its launch. The two most important planetary missions that would not continue with the White House Budgets are, on the one hand, Mars Sample Returnthe recovery of Martian soil samples that has been collecting the Rover Perseverance, and the Davinci mission to explore Venus. Both milestones would be in the hands of China, which It has similar missions in your scientific roadmap. Goodbye to the Goddard? According to Ars Technicathe cuts seem designed to force the closure of the Goddard Space Flight Center, the NASA headquarters in Maryland, which uses 10,000 officials and contractors, and from where iconic cosmological, land and sun observation missions are operated. Astrophysics: it would reduce its budget by two thirds, leaving 487 million dollars. Heliophysics: it would reduce its budget by more than two thirds, leaving 455 million dollars. Terrestrial science: would reduce its budget in more than half, remaining at 1,033 million dollars. Planetary Science: would reduce its budget by one third, being at 1,929 million dollars NOAA is even worse stop. Donald Trump’s administration also seeks Complaint the magazine Science. Like NASA, NOAA is one of the world’s main scientific agencies, but in the weather, climate and space climate. The cuts would close the Ocean and Atmospheric Research Office (OAR), and would leave hundreds of scientists who study global warming. Waiting for Congress. NASA has a period of 72 hours to appeal these figures before they are incorporated into the final budgets. Ultimately, it will be the United States Congress who approves them. It is likely that the cuts are with strong opposition in Congress, Very sensitized With the idea of ​​losing ground in front of China. “This would tithe the American leadership in space and inflict great damage to NASA centers throughout the country,” Congressman George Whitesides, from the Science Committee, told Ars Technica. It would be like an “extinction event.” Image | POT In Xataka | 12 years after making fun of Spacex and his idea of ​​landing rockets, Arianegroup is creating a European mini-falcon 9

After matching his space bet, Jeff Bezos has invested in the other great Elon Musk project: electric cars

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Jeff Bezos is financing under a startup of electric vehicles called Slate Auto, which works since 2022 in a Pickup Compact and affordable with an expected price of $ 25,000, as it has revealed Techcrunch. Why is it important. This investment is a very different approach to the one followed by the majority of electric startups, which have opted for luxury models with high margins. Slate Auto changes the usual strategy when directing directly to the mass market, that of the general public. And just at a time when the growth of some brands has slowed down. In the case of Tesla, has collapsed. Between bambalins. The company was born as part of Re Manufacturing, another company supported by Bezos and co -founded by Jeff Wilke, former CEO of Amazon Consumer. Since then, he has attracted several executives from Ford, GM, Stellantis and Harley-Davidson, in addition to several former Amazon ex-employed. The figures. Slate raised at least 111 million dollars in a series A round in 2023, and according to documents from the state of Delaware mentioned by Motorpasionhas authorized about 500 million preferential shares for a series B $ 2.37 per share. That is, almost 1.2 billion dollars. In addition to Bezos, the company has the investment of Mark Walter, majority owner of the Dodgers, a baseball team, and Thomas Tull, main re manufacturing investor. The strategy. The Pickup of two Slate places follow a minimalist philosophy inspired by the Ford Model T and the Volkswagen Beetle. The company’s plan is to compensate for the low margins of the vehicle with an accessories line for customization, similar to the Harley-Davidson business model or division Mopar of Stellantis. And now what. Slate plans to start production at the end of 2026 in an installation in Indiana. During these days a prototype of the car in Los Angeles has been sighted and photographed, showing a simple and functional design, published in Reddit and collected by Carscoops. Far away from the futuristic lines of a possible rival like the Cybertruck of Tesla. Expected that, after the exclusive Techcrunch And the first photo of the prototype, the company is encouraged to share some more information than until now, where it has been cryptic in its communications. Outstanding image | Reddit In Xataka | The problem of US cars in Europe is not tariffs: they are not interested in the least

NASA breathes relieved, Jared Isaacman is not an Elon Musk puppet

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He has never worked at NASA. It does not have Background scientist, or university studies. None of that matters. He has flown twice to the space in missions he financed. He is a bold and billionaire entrepreneur; The values ​​that conquered Donald Trumppossibly under Elon Musk’s advice. Now Jared Isaacman It is one step away from being confirmed as the youngest administrator that NASA has ever had. The priority is to get to Mars. At his audience to the United States Senate, which will confirm his choice as NASA’s head, Isaacman has not diverted from the slogan of Trump, who appointed the conquest of Mars as the “manifest destination” of the United States In his inaugural speech. “As the president declared, we will prioritize the sending of American astronauts to Mars,” said the businessman before the Senatorial Committee for Commerce, Science and Transportation. In the public there were also the four crew of the future Artemis II mission to the moon. But Elon Musk is separated. The richest man in the world surprised NASA at the beginning of the year saying that “the moon was a distraction”, and that Spacex would focus on the conquest of Mars. Taking into account that Spacex is a key contractor in NASA’s return to the satellite, the industry took it as a sign that the Artemis missions They could cancel, leaving in the hands of China the opportunity to send to the first woman To the moon. During his audience, Isaacman was inquired in multiple occasions about the flights manned to the moon. Senator Tammy Duckworth asked him if he agreed to maintain the Lunar Objectives of NASA in the long term. “I think it is imperative that we do both,” Isaacman said. “I think we can get to the moon, Mars and beyond.” Ted Cruz was more direct: he asked if he promised to bring American astronauts to the moon surface before Trump ceased to be president. Isaacman defended the idea of ​​the springboard: “I want us to return to the moon while we also move towards Mars.” Cruz reformulated the question: “If China advances us in the conquest of the Moon, what consequences could the United States face?” “Certainly, we can’t lose,” Isaacman said. “The space is the maximum advantage; we cannot afford to give it up.” Another point where Isaacman separated from Musk was in his idea of destroy the International Space Station Before time. “Are you in favor of maintaining a sustained presence in the low land orbit?” They asked him. “Yes, reuse is a sustainable way to send US astronauts to orbit, I would like to understand the reasons that Elon Musk has to exorbit the international space station before 2030,” he said. It does not maintain contact with Musk. The fear of losing symbolic battles against China, such as sending the first woman to the moon or maintaining the presence in the low land orbit was a constant throughout the audience. But the most tense moments occurred when Isaacman had to answer questions about his relationship with Elon Musk. After all, there is a direct relationship between the nominee to direct NASA and Spacex, a company with which it was associated for the missions Inspiration4 and Polaris. Isaacman denied having been in contact with Elon Musk to talk about NASA, and noted that the businessman does not owe loyalty but to the United States. But when Senator Ed Markey insistently asked if Elon Musk was at the meeting that Isaacman had with Trump for his nomination, Isaacman was not honest. He always replied with the same phrase: “Senator, my meeting was with the president of the United States.” He did not deny or confirm that Musk was in the room (implying that, obviously, he was). There is money to do everything. It does not seem that Isaacman will complain about the cuts that Doge Government Efficiency Department Directed by Elon Musk, it is applying to NASA. The young entrepreneur believes that there is enough money to quickly get to the moon while advancing in the plans to conquer Mars as soon as possible. The speed is the key in Isaacman’s plans, which wants to revitalize the “Mission First” culture of the Apollo program: Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon just eight years after Alan Shepard became The first American to fly to spacethe name recalled to direct NASA. Instead, it does not seem that he is very excited about the idea of ​​launching the Lunar Gateway station or building a lunar base, as China looks for. He did not expressly said it, but commented that “we will have to determine the scientific, economic and national security benefits to maintain a presence on the lunar surface.” As for the SLS and the Orion ship. Boeing can breathe calm, at least for a few months. It seems that Isaacman is willing to respect the current architecture of Artemis missions, however expensive and inefficient it isat least for the moment, while an alternative architecture develops. “It’s the current plan. I think it’s the best and faster way to achieve it,” said Isaacman. But then he added that this architecture is not the way to follow for high frequency flights to the moon, a clear nod to the New Space launch options: The Spacex Starship and the ship Blue Moon from Blue Originwhich will be launched aboard the new Glenn rocket. Images | POT In Xataka | Elon Musk has said that Mars will be part of the United States. It is an unusual affront to the outdoor space treaty

Elon Musk attacks the ideologist of US Tariff Policy

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The global economy faces one of the most tense moments in its history, after the implementation of the new US tariff policies that it has given by amortized World free trade. The reciprocal tariffs have not only rekindled the fears of a world recessionbut they have also hit some of the world’s most innovative companies hard. Among the main affected: Elon Musk, whose companies will receive a hard blow for the commercial war that the US has started with China and Europe. Elon Musk doesn’t like tariffs. Elon Musk has expressed clearly its opposition to the new tariffs driven by Donald Trump. During the weekend he proposed a Commercial Agreement of “Zero Tariffs” between the United States and Europe. In addition, Musk shared in x A video by economist Milton Friedman highlighting the benefits of free trade and criticized Peter NavarroTrump’s commercial advisor and main ideologist of Trump’s tariff policies, ensuring that: “Navarro is darker than a sack of bricks.” According to published The Washington Postthe confrontation between Musk and Navarro has been climbing. Musk has publicly denounced that these policies are harmful, not only for their companies, but also for the American economy in general. These statements show the distancing between Musk and Trump’s government. Tesla is more than an assembler. The origin of the crossroads between Musk and Navarro were A few statements in which the Economic Advisor of the White House assured that Tesla was little more than a pieces. Tesla is among the companies most affected by tariff policies. According to Nikkei Asiabetween 20% and 25% of the components used in the manufacture of Tesla cars are imported, while 40% of materials related to Electric batteries They come from Chinese suppliers, although these batteries and their cars are manufactured in the US gigafactories. However, the main stumbling block is not the extra cost of its supply chain for tariffs, but the voltage generated with Chinawhere the brand enjoys A privileged position And Musk had been acting as a mediator bridge. If the Chinese government intensifies its offensive against US commercial interests, the competitiveness of Tesla in front of byd or other manufacturers. “It is important to note that Tesla has not been unscathed from this problem. The impact of tariffs on Tesla remains significant,” public Musk a few days ago. Space tariffs: its effect in Spacex. Spacex has also felt the coup of tariffs in their meats. Export restrictions from China and Tariffs to China They are being a serious obstacle in the Company’s supply chain. “Tariffs are generating challenges in various facets of Spacex operations, including the costs of the supply chain, international contracts and the regulatory environment,” He pointed outto Forbes Maxime Puteaux, main advisor of the space consultant Novaspace. This problem could have long -term consequences. On the one hand, they affect Spacex’s ability to comply with international contracts, including those of the Satellite display For Starlink. On the other hand, these increases could slow down and even put development at risk of projects such as Starship, a key piece for future missions to Mars. Musk has warned that this type of commercial policies endangers American technological leadership in strategic sectors such as aerospace. “There are certain components or elements that are used in the construction of high -tech products such as Spacex that do not have many alternative suppliers, so the risk of concentration is aggravated when costs increase exponentially,” declared to Forbes James Gellert, Executive President of the Raphydrification Supply Chain Analysis Firm The AI ​​is not fought. The AI ​​does not get rid of the scourge of tariffs, so Xai, the growing company Musk’s artificial intelligence, also faces some problems for tariffs on key components, such as electrical equipment and servers for Your data centers. This increase in expenses not only affects the competitiveness of the company, but could limit its ability to face international rivals in the field of artificial intelligence, a Sector where China and Europe are advancing quickly. Collateral damage of tariffs in x. In the commercial war caused by tariff that economists predict. One of the main sources of X income is advertising. The economic difficulties of companies can make the company suffer much more for The lack of advertisers. In addition, the social network of X is much more exposed to indirect reprisals of the affected countries, which could harden their policies for privacy and data protection, matter that already is being investigated x In Europe, as he published The New York Times. In Xataka | The great fortunes are bleeding with the collapse of the bag. Warren Buffett has hit his old recipe again Image | Flickr (The White House)

Gwynne Shotwell, the chief of Spacex in the shadow of Elon Musk

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Gwynne Shotwell has appeared for the first time on the list of Forbes billionaires, with a fortune that the magazine estimates at 1.2 billion dollars. Billionaire The Spacex President It only has a 0.3% participation in the Aerospace Company of Elon Musk, but the company’s last investment round, which does not quote on the stock market, fired its valuation to 350,000 million dollarswhich has given a good push to Shotwell’s heritage. According to Forbes, Gwynne Shotwell’s fortune, 61, It is now 1.2 billion dollarshis first “billion” on the American short scale. As the data is not public, the figure is based on the compensation on actions received by the first Spacex employees. Faith jump. Shotwell joined Spacex in 2002 as employee number 11, changing a safe job in Microcosm for a company that had everything to demonstrate, at a time when Boeing and Lockheed Martin had no competition and Shotwell was divorcing with two young children. Mechanical training engineer, he told Musk “I’m a complete idiot” when he asked why he wanted to change a company established to Spacex. His first big challenge in the company was to sell to customers the Falcon 1 rocket and obtain permits for its launch. When the first three attempts failed, Shotwell had the difficult task of maintaining investors. Path. In 2007, Shotwell managed to convince Iridium, another consolidated company, to sign a contract with Spacex, despite the fact that at that time their rockets had not yet been successful. After three failures, Falcon 1 first reached orbit in 2008, which promoted a decisive contract with NASA to develop the Dragon ship, which would begin to transport load to the International Space Station. That same year, Musk amounted to Shotwell to President and Operations Director. Since then, Gwynne Shotwell has achieved key contracts with NASA, Pentagon and many commercial companies. Orchestra Director. In addition to the boss in Musk’s shadow, Shotwell is the only executive who has been working with the complicated entrepreneur for more than two decades. Musk is the visionary, but Shotwell contributes almost everything: stability, operational efficiency and diplomatic management. Shotwell has managed to accelerate the Rhythm of Development of Spacex, keeping in balance the many elements of a company that designs and manufactures its own rockets and satellites, and operates its own releases. There are no two spacex. In 2024, Spacex completed 134 orbital launches, almost triple that its closest competitor: the state company China Casc with 48 launches. Thanks to Starlink, Spacex puts in orbit 83% of all world’s satellitesself -confinction with its satellite Internet service the development of Starship, which will allow you to launch Starlink at an even greater pace. The constellation Starlink grew up to 7,000 satellitesreaching 5 million users (90% more than in 2023). Morgan Stanley estimates that Starlink generated 900 million dollars of operational benefit on revenues of 9.3 billion last year. Pragmatic and effective, Shotwell has been key in all these operations, an effort that now sees rewarded with his first “Billón”. Images | NASA, Spacex In Xataka | Who is Gwynne Shotwell, the shadow engineer who has taken Spacex and Elon Musk to space

Before Tesla’s collapse, Elon Musk already presses for an agreement between Europe and the United States

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The tariff war triggered by Donald Trump has unleashed chaos in the bags. From the United States to Asian bags through Europe. Everything falls and the perspectives are not good. And, along the way, we begin to see the consequences that are hardly affecting technological and automotive. One of the most marked is Tesla, who lives in his own chaos. April 2. Just five days ago Donald Trump unleashed the storm. It was April 2 in the United Statesthe edge of midnight in Europe and were already well entered in April 3 in Asia. The announcement of imposing tariffs with a flat rate of 10% to almost all countries in the world and elevate them to those that the president of the United States considers that they are doing special damage to his country unleashed chaos. Since then, the consequences have happened. Europe warns that April 9day in which the new tariffs should go into force if nothing remedies it, will vote what measures it takes against the United States. China has also made it clear that April 10 Equal 34% tariffs That the Trump administration has imposed them if they do not withdraw before or reach an agreement. The chaos. Since then, The bags have been immersed in chaos. Since last Friday, when China answered the United States, the drop in the bags was confirmed. Collapses in the United States of 10%, the Nikkei playing minimums since 2023 or the German stock market falling almost 10%. In Spain, Ibex35 is falling 5% and has already fallen more than 10% since the Chinese reaction was announced last week. Since Donald Trump announced the new economic measures, there are great losers in the commercial war. Apple, who was trying to diversify its production and partially leave China, has lost 15% because Tariffs will continue to impact in countries where it has been carrying its production. Nvidia has suffered similar falls and Microsoft has fallen 5% since April 2. Other of the companies that are suffering most are the textile -related. Nike has left more than 10% in the last five days and between April 2 and last Friday almost 20% had left but the shares have rebounded. Adidas has also fallen almost 20%. Under Armor exceeds 15% fall. LVMH (which has luxury brands such as Loewe) has left more than 12%. The automakers. But there is a sector that tariffs especially impact. The entry of cars to the United States and parts to produce cars within its borders It is taxed with 25%. Steel and aluminum, keys in this sector, also now cost 25% more. That has made shipments from Mexico and Canada paralyze or that some plants have already begun to Send your workers home with the aim of reducing production. From Trump’s announcement, Honda has fallen more than 10%, Toyota approaches 15% fall. Stellantis approaches 20%. Mercedes, Volkswagen or BMW also leave more than 10%. Benefit? Tesla was one of the few companies that I could get unscathed from the situation. Everything that sells in the United States manufactures it internally and its shipments to China are almost exceptional. Almost everything he sells in China produces it in China. In terms of trade between the United States and China, the company would have no problem. Yes there is clouds that can worry. China has taken years to allow Tesla to operate with advanced driving aid system. For this he has forced him to associate with Baiduwhat Elon Musk’s assumed aware that it is A key piece in the puzzle of its future economy. It remains to ask if China can press by cutting the tap to concrete companies. Tesla can be key since the use of data for autonomous driving are extremely sensitive to the Chinese state and does not want them to leak to the United States. Alleging these same national security concerns, from the United States they want prohibit the entry of Chinese cars or with Chinese sensitive pieces to the country. A strong fall. In spite of everything, the fall in Tesla’s actions are being considerable. On April 2, Tesla’s shares were quoted above $ 280. Today they are paid at $ 239 in a drop of approximately 15%. However, the data reflect the enormous volatility of Tesla’s actions. That same day April 2, the shares had started a little above $ 250. The alleged strength against the rivals caused the shares to rise in price but The data of your first quarterthe Chinese reaction and the rumors of Elon Musk of the United States Government have left the shares below the aforementioned 240 dollars. A crack. It is the one that has opened between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The billionaire and owner of Tesla said he expected an agreement between the European Union and the United States. “They should advance ideally, in my opinion, towards a situation of zero tariff, effectively creating a free trade zone between Europe and North America,” he said in a video connection during a league congress, the ultra -rightist party led by Matteo Salvini and that Try to get to the Government of Italy. Words picked them up The avant -garde and opens a crack between Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s speech that had so far walked together. Just when Elon Musk is losing a fortune with the fall in the price of Tesla’s shares and everything indicates that Your departure as Executing arm of mass dismissals In the United States it will be sooner rather than later. Uncertainty. The truth is that fluctuation in the price of shares Between advertisement and counting related to the tariffs filed between the United States and China they obey the volatility of Tesla shares and the response of investors guided by the latest news rather than to the real economic background of the company. However, it is true that deliveries in Q1 of 2025 have been very bad. In China they seem to have recovered the usual rhythm after modernizing the … Read more

Elon Musk wants to change it with an AI

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Elon Musk may have The hours counted In front of Doge, that “efficiency” office with which Donald Trump has given the richest man in the world as closely to a chainsaw for cut where you can In public administration. Meanwhile, Musk may be before his great work or the failure that will accompany him for the rest of his life. At stake: a base code of the 50s, the same that holds the aid of 65 million people in the United States. A risky plan. The story Wired told this week. The so -called Government Efficiency Department (Doge), has started a project to migrate “in a matter of months” all the United States Social Security Administration Systems (SSA), abandoning the COBOL LANGUAGEin use since the 50s, to replace it with a more modern technology Like Java. The problem? That experts warn that this operation is technically colossal and extremely riskygiven that Cobol holds the critical functions of the SSA, including the issuance of social security numbers and the payment of benefits to more than 65 million people. In other words: a forced and hurried migration could generate from erroneous payments to the complete loss of benefits, without the authorities to even detect the failures. Musk and the system. Apparently, the project arises in the midst of a growing pressure from the Trump administration on the SSA. Musk has publicly attacked the agency, accusing her, Without evidenceto allow fraud as payments to alleged beneficiaries of 150 years of age, a distortion caused for technical limitations of cobol and not for corruption. In addition, since Doge assumed tasks within the SSA, the agency has faced budget cuts and a deterioration of its serviceswith constant falls on its website and prolonged waiting times in attention to the public. Domino effect. The SSA system houses more than 60 million code lines Cobol, and its main structure, including the Madam databaseit has not been substantially renewed Since the 80s. In fact, They counted in Arstechnica That its architecture is so fragile that any change without the necessary precautions could trigger a domino effect of unpredictable failures, affecting payment calculations, acquired rights and the very stability of the computer infrastructure that supports the largest social security system on the planet. Doge and AI. Wired underlined that the Doge team that has taken control of the project is partly formed by Young and inexperienced engineerswhose initial task has been to develop identity verification systems and Audit beneficiaries Through the controversial initiative “Are You Alive Project” The lack of solid and, very important planning, the intention of Use artificial intelligence generative to rewrite millions of lines of code within an unreal period increases fears within the SSA. Moreover, several experts consulted They warn that even in several years it would be possible to ensure that the new applications reproduce without errors all the calculations and business rules accumulated for decades. The beneficiaries on the wire. No doubt, the main fear is not only an incorrect payment, but the possibility that millions of people stop receiving your checks Without even the system, generating an unprecedented social crisis. With an environment that some employees describe As “sustained with wires and adhesive tape”, forced migration and without guarantees threatens to destabilize not only the SSA, but one of the fundamental pillars of the welfare state in the United States. Speed ​​vsa costs. The decision to impose drastic deadlines, prioritizing advertisements to hype and saucer On solid results, it seems to reflect the Internal logic of Doge and the Trump administration: demonstrate that They can “modernize” In record time, even at the expense of breaking essential services. Without a realistic plan and without adequate resources, the migration of the SSA seems more like a political experiment than a responsible modernization of a social security system than Millions of citizens They depend for subsistence. Image | Steve Jurvetson, Wec3390 In Xataka | Elon Musk has fired officials in Doge: China and Russia have seen a unique opportunity to recruit them In Xataka | More and more rumors place Elon Musk out of Doge and the Government. The reason is very simple: Tesla’s crisis

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