Elon Musk and His Projects

 

Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk  is a business magnate, industrial designer and engineer, technology entrepreneur. Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa.  As a child, Musk was so lost in his daydreams about inventions that his parents and doctors ordered a test to check his hearing. When he was 10, Musk developed an interest in computers. He taught himself how to program, and when he was 12 he sold his first software: a game he created called Blastar for $500 to 'PC and Office Technology Magazine'. 

Education

Elon Musk completed his schooling from Waterkloof House Preparatory School, Bryanston High School and Pretoria Boys High School. Then he became determined to move to America against his father's wish as he believed that America is where great things are possible, more than any other country in the world.

In June 1989, before his 18th birthday, Elon Musk moved to Canada after obtaining a Canadian passport with the help of his Canadian-born mother. Before receiving the Canadian passport, Elon Musk attended the University of Pretoria (only for 5 months).

In 1989, Elon Musk attended Queen's University and in 1992 he attended the University of Pennsylvania where he did his B.Sc. in Economics and B.A. in Physics. In 1994, Elon Musk did two summer internships-- Pinnacle Research Institute and Palo Alto. In 1995, Elon Musk started his doctorate in  'energy physics/materials science' from Stanford University, California but dropped out after two days and launched his first company.

Business Carrier

In 1995, Elon Musk along with his brother Kimbal established Zip2 Corporation. Zip2 Corporation was a web software company that developed and marketed an Internet city guide for newspapers-- maps, directions, etc. where Elon Musk implemented the direction codes in Java. He also obtained contracts from The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. In February 1999, Compaq acquired Zip2 Corporation for 307 million USD in cash. This Zip2 is his first company. After that he gain more and more.

In March 1999, Elon Musk co-founded an online financial service and e-mail payment company 'X.com' from the money. In 2000, X.com merged with Cofinity (American software company) having a money transfer service Paypal. In 2001, the company was renamed as Paypal. In 2000, Elon Musk was removed as CEO of the merged company due to his ambition to add PayPal's Unix-based infrastructure to Microsoft Windows.

Now Elon Musk is work in many company which are describe below.

• SpaceX   -   Founder, CEO and Chief Designer
• Tesla   -   Co-founder, CEO and product architect
• The Boring Company   -   Founder of The Boring Company
• Neuralink   -   Co-founder
• OpenAI   -   Co-founder and initial Co-chairman

Projects of Elon Musk

[1] SpaceX Mars Project

SpaceX Mars program is a development program initiated by Elon Musk and SpaceX in order to facilitate the eventual colonization of Mars. The program includes fully reusable launch vehicles, human-rated spacecraft, on-orbit propellant tankers, rapid-turnaround launch/landing mounts, and local production of rocket fuel on Mars via in situ resource utilization.

SpaceX's aspirational goal has been to land the first humans on Mars by 2024, but in October 2020 Elon Musk named 2024 as goal for an uncrewed mission, with a crewed mission to follow later. Below You can see the image of future mars :)

 [2] Tesla Electric Car

Elon Musk, who contributed most of the funding in the early days, has served as CEO since 2008. According to Musk, the purpose of Tesla is to help expedite the move to sustainable transport and energy, obtained through electric vehicles and solar power.

Tesla ranked as the world's best-selling plug-in and battery electric passenger car manufacturer in 2019, with a market share of 17% of the plug-in segment and 23% of the battery electric segment.

 

[3] SolarCity

The acquisition of SolarCity will create the world’s only integrated sustainable energy company, from energy generation to storage to transportation. Just as Tesla has demonstrated the superiority of electric vehicles, the solar roof and Powerwall 2 will transform energy generation and storage.

Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity is an important part of creating this future. The acquisition will enable us to transform into a truly integrated sustainable energy company capable of developing, producing, selling, installing, and servicing these products in the most seamless way possible.

 

[4] Hyperloop

The Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX.

Hyperloop is described as a sealed tube or system of tubes with low air pressure through which a pod may travel substantially free of air resistance or friction.

The Hyperloop could potentially convey people or objects at airline or hypersonic speeds while being energy efficient compared with existing high speed rail systems. This, if implemented, may reduce travel times compared to train and airplane travel over distances of under approximately 1,500 kilometres.

[5] Neuralink

 

   

Neuralink Corporation is an American neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk and others, developing implantable brain–machine interfaces (BMIs).

Musk's ambition with Neuralink to make connecting the brain to a computer as simple as LASIK surgery to cure brain ailments and someday even help humans compete with AI — is bringing money and the spotlight to the space of brain computer interfaces (BCIs), industry insiders say his goals are exceedingly optimistic and depend on some ambitious developments in science and engineering being fully wrought. The resulting computing power, according to Musk, will allow humans to be broadly competitive with rapidly developing AI.

 

[6] Starlink

Starlink is a satellite internet constellation being constructed by SpaceX providing satellite Internet access. Starlink is on the leading edge of on-orbit debris mitigation, meeting or exceeding all regulatory and industry standards. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), working in combination with ground transceivers.

SpaceX plans to sell some of the satellites for military, scientific, or exploratory purposes. The SpaceX satellite development facility in Redmond, Washington houses the Starlink research, development, manufacturing, and orbit control. The cost of the decade-long project to design, build, and deploy the constellation was estimated by SpaceX in May 2018 to be about US$10 billion.

 

[7] OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company, considered a competitor to DeepMind, conducts research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with the stated goal of promoting and developing friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole.

Musk and Altman's counter-intuitive strategy of trying to reduce the risk that AI will cause overall harm, by giving AI to everyone, is controversial among those who are concerned with existential risk from artificial intelligence.