Musk's Falcon Heavy makes it to space. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 2018 By Darrell Etherington SpaceX launches its brand new Falcon Heavy for the first time and it went almost perfectly to plan. Also, less ambitious things happened in tech. It's all here in The Daily Crunch for February 7, 2018. 1. SpaceX's huge rocket takes off Launching rockets is tough business, and launching really gigantic huge rockets is even harder. But SpaceX pulled it off on their first try, sending Falcon Heavy into space and becoming the space company with the highest-capacity active rocket in operation. Only NASA's massive Saturn V rocket had a higher payload capacity, but SpaceX says it could still make a moon trip with Falcon Heavy – it would just take a few of them working together. 2. Focus shifts to BFR for SpaceX now So SpaceX will probably just chill and enjoy sending Falcon Heavy to space now, right? Nope: Elon Musk says now the work begins in earnest on their NEXT rocket, the reusable spaceship with a single booster design knows as the BFR, which is what will take SpaceX, and humans, to Mars if all goes to plan. Sponsored By: Thomson Reuters 2018 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Tech Leaders 21st century technology-sector leadership requires not only financial success but also attention to many other factors, including investor confidence, risk and compliance, innovation, environmental impact, social responsibility, and more. Learn More… 3. Snap rebounds on a good quarter Snap had a good quarter this time around, which is rare, and investors are rewarding it with a stock price rise. It's growing in developing markets big time, apparently, which is fueling optimism. 4. Crypto comes back. Again. Crypto's up! Or it's down. Who knows. I don't get it. 5. SoftBank is the elephant in the venture room SoftBank is investing like crazy and has already spent over $35 billion on startups, with no signs of slowing. 6. Senate hearing on cryptocurrency surprisingly doesn't descend into madness The Senate held a hearing this week on cryptocurrency, and it amazingly wasn't just panic and madness and misinformation. At least I think: I don't understand cryptocurrency. 7. Now, go watch SpaceX's spaceman in space SpaceX's big Falcon Heavy launch included a payload of a mannequin wearing a spacesuit in a Tesla Roadster and now it's streaming live. Watching it is a good way to waste a day. Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Android Lead Engineer at Guardhat (Southfield, MI, USA) Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer at OfficeSpace.com (Seattle, WA) Software Developer - Team Lead at Guardhat (Southfield, MI, USA) Senior Cloud Engineer at Labelmaster (Chicago, IL, United States) Digital Marketing Manager - Tech Company at AskMrFranchise (Manhasset, Long Island (NY)) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2018 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service