{"id":992073,"date":"2026-02-14T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992073"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:33:46","slug":"musk-fires-up-spacex-bezos-pushes-blue-origin-as-us-billionaires-race-china-to-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/musk-fires-up-spacex-bezos-pushes-blue-origin-as-us-billionaires-race-china-to-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk fires up SpaceX, Bezos pushes Blue Origin as US billionaires race China to moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The space race between U.S. billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin&#8217;s ambitions as both companies aim to return humans to the moon ahead of a planned mission by China in 2030. <\/p>\n<p>With a planned IPO this year, SpaceX CEO Musk has said in recent podcast interviews and company meetings that he wants to build &#8220;Moonbase Alpha&#8221; and put a satellite-slinging launch device on the lunar surface. The lunar base would help build up his envisioned AI-computing network of up to one million satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The space race between U.S. billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin&#8217;s ambitions as both companies aim to return humans to the moon ahead of a planned mission by China in 2030. With a planned IPO this year, SpaceX CEO Musk has said in recent podcast interviews and company meetings that he wants to build &#8220;Moonbase Alpha&#8221; and put a satellite-slinging launch device on the lunar surface. The lunar base would help build up his envisioned AI-computing network of up to one million satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}