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1. Elon Musk taunts UAW with invitation to hold union vote at
Tesla factory
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Elon Musk invited the UAW to hold an election at Tesla in a tweet on Thursday.
The Tesla CEO has been highly critical of the automotive union in the past.
The UAW did not respond to a request for comment.
Elon Musk invited the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) to come to Tesla
following years of speaking out against the organization.
"Our real challenge is Bay Area has negative unemployment, so if we don't treat
and compensate our (awesome) people well, they have many other offers and will
just leave!" Musk said on Twitter Thursday. "I'd like hereby to invite UAW to hold a
union vote at their convenience. Tesla will do nothing to stop them."
The CEO made the comment in response to a tweet thread on President Joe
Biden's reluctance to credit Tesla with electric car adoption in the US. In the series
of tweets, Musk noted that Tesla operates the largest car manufacturing plant in

2. North America and has built about two-thirds of all-electric cars in the US. He also
said that Tesla pays more than its competition.
The UAW did not respond to a request for comment on the invitation from Insider.
Federal law prohibits employers from attempting to impede the organization of a
union.
Musk appeared to taunt the UAW in a tweet following the invitation. In the tweet,
he included a video of New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc (NUMMI) workers
denouncing the UAW for "intimidation" in 2010 at the location that has since
become Tesla's Fremont factory. The video was taken only a month before the
manufacturing company closed.
"This old YouTube clip helps explain why former UAW members who work at Tesla
are not huge fans of UAW," Musk wrote on Twitter.
Some Tesla workers sought to unionize with the help of the UAW in 2017. Last
year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that Tesla and Musk
"unlawfully threatened" workers hoping to unionize. The group said Tesla
"interrogated" employees involved in the effort and ordered Musk to delete a tweet
it deemed "anti-union."
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3. In the past, news outlets have theorized that Tesla has been excluded from White
House recognition, as well as events around EV adoption because the carmaker is
not unionized.
In January, Musk called Biden a "UAW sock puppet" on Twitter. Last year, Musk
criticized a new bill that would benefit electric-vehicle manufacturers with unions.
Musk's tweet comes as his Fremont factory faces scrutiny from a California civil
rights regulator. Last month, the California Department of Fair Employment and
Housing filed a complaint alleging Tesla's Fremont factory fosters a hostile work
environment for Black workers, citing "hundreds of complaints from workers."
In response, Tesla has criticized the agency's lawsuit, calling it "misguided."
"Attacking a company like Tesla that has done so much good for California should
not be the overriding aim of a state agency with prosecutorial authority," the
company said in a post on its website. "Tesla strongly opposes all forms of
discrimination and harassment and has a dedicated Employee Relations team that
responds to and investigates all complaints," it added.
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4. 02
Elon Musk taunts Russia after they stop selling rocket engines
to US
SpaceX boss Elon Musk mocked Russia as the country said it would stop
providing rocket engines to the United States in retaliation to sanctions placed on it
for invading Ukraine.
The boss of state space agency, Dmiitry Rogozin, was ridiculed by Mr Musk after
suggesting that the US would have to go into orbit on “their broomsticks.”
“American broomsticks,” taunted Mr Musk on Twitter as he posted a video of
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launching another 47 Starlink satellite into orbit.
Mr Musk appears to have riled the Russian government after activating the
SpaceX satellite-internet system over Ukraine in response to a request from the
embattled country’s leadership.
The entrepreneur has also publicly offered Ukraine advice on how best to stay
connected to the internet during the Russian invasion.

5. Mr Rogozin told Russian state television: “In a situation like this we can’t supply
the United States with our world’s best rocket engines. Let them fly on something
else, their broomsticks, I don’t know what.”
He said that Russia had delivered 122 RD-180 engines to the US since the 1990s,
of which 98 were used to power Atlas launch vehicles.
In addition to taunting Russia, Mr Musk also announced on Thursday that SpaceX
had updated its Starlink software “to reduce peak power consumption, so Starlink
can be powered from car cigarette lighter.”
And he added: “Mobile roaming enabled, so phased array antenna can maintain
signal while on moving vehicle.”
On Wednesday, Mr Musk had derided Mr Rogozin, who is the former Russian
Deputy Prime Minister, after he questioned why the entrepreneur had made
Starlink available after the Russian invasion.
“Ukraine civilian Internet was experiencing strange outages – bad weather
perhaps? – so SpaceX is helping fix it,” tweeted Mr Musk at the politician.
It also came after Mykhailo Fedorov, minister of digital transformation for Ukraine,
posted a picture of a Starlink terminal on a roof in Ukraine.

6. “With Russian attacks on our infra, we need generators to keep Starlinks &
life-saving services online - ideas?,” Mr Fedorov tweeted at Mr Musk.
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He replied to him that solar panels and battery packs would be better than
generators for powering the terminals during the conflict.
The SpaceX CEO also added that solar does not have a “heat signature or smoke
& doesn’t run out of fuel.”
“(Elon Musk) great suggestions! We’re unlucky w/ weather- clouds + smoke from
burning cities and with infra damage can’t grid charge batteries,” the minister
replied.
“Last time for fossil fuels now? then you help rebuild Ukraine w full solar+storage?”
Mr Musk replied that despite the “obscuration” the solar “works better than one
might think.”
“Good point - should work even with Ukrainian winters! We will keep you posted as
we roll out more Starlinks across the country. THANK YOU again for helping us
out with (Starlink)- this will save a lot of lives,” tweeted Mr Fedorov.

7. 03
Space news – live: Out-of-control rocket to crash into far side
of the moon today
A Soyuz spacecraft on the launchpad at the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan in December 2021. (AFP via Getty Images)
The fallout over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to mount, as UK satellite
internet company OneWeb announced Thursday that it would cancel all scheduled
launches of its satellites from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The company’s announcement came after a series of withdrawals and demands
by Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, in
response to Western sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Roscosmos
had been scheduled to launch OneWeb satellites this week, and Rogozin had
demanded the UK government divest from the company before Roscosmos would
go through with the launch.
The UK government took a partial ownership position in OneWeb in 2020 following
the company’s bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, astronomers are preparing for a collision between a spent rocket
section and the Moon expected for some time on Friday. Originally believed to be

8. an old SpaceX rocket booster, some experts now say the rocket section is part of
an old Chinese launch vehicle, something China denies.
Whatever its origins, the rocket section will strike the far side of the Moon outside
the view of astronomers and their instruments, but Nasa scientists plan to study
the impact site after the fact.
You can follow all the latest space news and analysis in our live coverage below.
Key Points
Out-of-control rocket to crash today
Elon Musk and Roscosmos chief taunt each other
Russian space agency takes down OneWeb rocket
09:34 , Andrew Griffin
The Russian space agency is taking down the rocket that was due to take
OneWeb’s satellites to space this week, as well as the satellites themselves, and
removing them both from the launchpad.
You can follow along with Roscosmos’s live stream here.

9. OneWeb’s launch had become something of a test of whether collaboration
between Russia and other countries in space would continue even as tensions
increased on the ground. That test failed yesterday, when OneWeb announced
that it would not agree to Roscosmos’s demands for the launch to go ahead, and
said that it was suspending all launches from the cosmodrome.
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Here’s the full story on that.
Out-of-control rocket to crash today
09:09 , Andrew Griffin
Today is the day that an out-of-control piece of rocket will smash into the lunar
surface.
The impact is estimated for 12.25 on Friday, according to the scientists who have
been tracking it and working out its trajectory.
We won’t see it happen, however, since the collision will happen on the far side of
the Moon. As such, we might not know for weeks – or even months – when, where
and how it actually landed on the lunar surface.

10. But it is not likely to cause any problems. While the rocket is very big and very fast,
the lunar surface is largely undisturbed and it is likely to leave only some craters
and plumes of dust.
But the meaning of the rocket is more significant. It is just one of a huge amount of
space debris currently floating, uncontrolled, off the Earth – and scientists have
warned that an errant piece of junk could be enough to cause major problems both
up here and down there.
It is still not entirely clear what the rocket is – scientists tracking it initially said it
was a piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, before running the numbers again and
finding that it is more likely to be a piece of Chinese spacecraft.
You can read more about the scientists preparing for the crash here.
Rocosmos hiding flags
Thursday 3 March 2022 22:56 , Jon Kelvey
Following UK satellite internet company OneWeb’s announcement Thursday
morning that the company would halt any scheduled launches of its satellites with
Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin tweeted a
video apparently taunting Western nations and showing workers hiding the
international flags on a Soyuz rocket.

11. “The launchers at Baikonur decided that without the flags of some countries, our
rocket would look more beautiful,” Mr Rogozin wrote, referring to the Roscosmos
cosmodrome in Baikonur Kazakhstan.
The rocket was scheduled to lift off from Baikonur on Friday carrying OneWeb
Satellites to low Earth Orbit. In the video, the large red font spelling out “OneWeb”
can be seen on the white rocket fairing, around which are the Japanese, American
and other nation’s flags. The workers systematically cover them up with white
material.
The tweet is just the latest in a series of similar posts by Mr Rogozin taunting or
threatening the Western nations that have placed sanctions on Russia over its
invasion and ongoing war in Ukraine. US President Joe Biden announced
sanctions a week ago designed to degrade Russia’s space program unless Russia
ceased hostilities toward Ukraine.
Scientist excited for rocket to hit Moon Friday
Thursday 3 March 2022 21:51 , Jon Kelvey
A rogue rocket segment is expected to strike the far side of the Moon around noon
GMT on Friday, and scientist are excited at the prospect.

12. While large pieces of space junk are generally concerning, scientists with Nasa’s
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission hope to use the spacecraft to study the
impact crater after the fact to learn more about the physics of such impacts and
the constituents of lunar soil and rocks.
Scientist excited for rocket to hit Moon Friday
Thursday 3 March 2022 21:51 , Jon Kelvey
A rogue rocket segment is expected to strike the far side of the Moon around noon
GMT on Friday, and scientist are excited at the prospect.
While large pieces of space junk are generally concerning, scientists with Nasa’s
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission hope to use the spacecraft to study the
impact crater after the fact to learn more about the physics of such impacts and
the constituents of lunar soil and rocks.
Thursday 3 March 2022 20:33 , Jon Kelvey
Russia has halted sales of rocket engines to the US, leading to an exchange of
taunts between Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, and
Elon Musk, CEO of the American company SpaceX.

13. In retaliation for Western sanctions placed on Russia over Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine, Mr Rogozin said on Russian state television that Russia would no longer
sell its RD-180 and RD-181 rocket engines to the US, or service existing engines.
“Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don’t know what,” he quipped.
United Launch Alliance, a collaboration between US aerospace giants Boeing and
Lockheed Martin, uses the RD-180 engine in its Atlas V rocket. But United Launch
Alliance president and CEO Tory Bruno told Aviation Week his company has
enough engines stockpiled to completed the 12 or so launches his company
currently has scheduled.
SpaceX, meanwhile, uses Merlin and Raptor engines in its rockets, engines of the
company’s own design and manufacture. After SpaceX used a Merlin-powered
Falcon 9 rocket to launch 47 Starlink satellites Thursday, Mr Musk tweeted a video
of the launch with the caption, “American broomsticks.”
Thursday 3 March 2022 19:37 , Jon Kelvey
SpaceX is already offering its Starlink internet service to Ukranians for free, but
CEO Elon Musk announced Thursday that SpaceX will push out a special software
update for users in the besieged nation as well.

14. The software update will allow Starlink user terminals — which SpaceX also
shipped into Ukraine — to operate using less energy, potentially operating on the
current provided by a car’s cigarette lighter.
The update comes after exchanges on Twitter between Ukranian Vice Prime
Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and Mr Musk, where Mr Fedorov asked Mr Musk for
help in keeping Ukranian internet infrastructure online in the midst of war with
Russia, and the two discussed using solar panels to power Starlink terminals.
“Solar panels and battery pack better than generator, as no heat signature or
smoke and doesn’t run out of fuel,” Mr Musk wrote to Mr Fedorov at one point.
SpaceX launches internet satellites while providing aid to Ukraine
Thursday 3 March 2022 18:14 , Jon Kelvey
While OneWeb’s scheduled internet satellite launches from Russia’s spaceport are
grounded for the foreseeable future, SpaceX successfully launched 47 of the
company’s Starlink satellites on Thursday.
The launch will help SpaceX get back on track in building out its constellation of
low Earth orbit satellites after a solar storm knocked 40 Starlink satellites out of
orbit shortly after launch earlier this month.

15. But the Starlink launch also comes as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has responded to
requests from Ukranian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov to help Ukraine stay
connected to the internet amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Mr Fedorov’s
country. Mr Musk has offered the Starlink internet service to Ukrainians for free,
and shipped the small satellite dishes necessary for connecting to the network to
Ukraine.
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