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by Brian Wang on (#4Z2VY)
SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell says that SpaceX will likely spinoff the Starlink satellite network with an IPO. SpaceX is launching 60 Starlink satellites with every Falcon 9 launch. They are four...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z2VZ)
Doctors in Washington State gave remdesivir (Gilead antiviral drug) to the first coronavirus patient in the United States last week after his condition worsened and pneumonia developed when he’d been...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z2PT)
This week Ford dropped 10% in market value. Ford is now worth $32 billion. This is about one-fourth of the peak value around 2000. Ford automotive revenues missed analysts’ estimates and fell...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z2PV)
The Department of Defense (DoD)’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has a supercomputer in a shipping container with 6 PetaFLOPS of performance. It will be used for both...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z2FJ)
Melanized fungus grows well in the Chernobyl reactor and in high radiation of space stations. The fungus can prosper when radiation is 500 times background levels. The Melanin absorbs all types of...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z179)
Tony Seba has a formal system for identifying and forecasting technological disruption. The link is to a 16-page guide that he created back in 2014. He used his methodology to identify the combined...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z11E)
SpaceX is staffing 4 production shifts for 24/7 Starship construction operations. SpaceX has filed with the FCC for a sub-orbital 20-kilometer launch in the March 16-September-16 timeframe. This is...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z11F)
Momentus is a startup with $40 million in funding for development of microwave plasma propulsion. The microwave plasma propulsion can have three times the efficiency of chemical rockets while having...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z0RF)
Momentus (www.momentus.space), provider of in-space transportation services for satellites, today announced a launch service agreement with Singapore-based companies, NuSpace and Aliena. Momentus’...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z0RG)
On December 30, Wenliang Li posted in a social media group about a SARS-like illness that within weeks would explode into the coronavirus epidemic that has infected more than 25,000 people. He was...
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by Brian Wang on (#4Z0RJ)
The Solar Orbiter is a NASA-ESA mission to look at the Suns poles. In the dark of space, Solar Orbiter faces temperatures of minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit. At closest approach, 26 million miles from...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YZKR)
Generational companies are investments where you can 10x or 100x your investment in 5-10 years, but you need to get in at the right time. Many investors underestimate the importance of timing. There...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YZCA)
Doug Plata describes how a few tele-operated robots can make roads and landings pads on the moon. The road would be built by robots to remove boulders. These would be followed by bulldozer bots to...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YZCC)
There are many fictional stories where Germany or Germany and Japan win World War 2. The stories usually ignore how this happens or give a few sentence reason like the Germans develop the A-bomb...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YZ3H)
SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is tracking to a mid-2020 orbital launch. This is a summary of developments from a Mars Society presentation. The Super Heavy Starship development schedule has slipped a...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YZ3K)
Doug Plata has proposed a solar drape concept for the moon. The moon has no wind and has one-sixth Earth gravity. A large robotic rover would place telescoping towers on the moon and thin-film solar...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YZ3N)
Mars has a launch window every 26-months. The round trip travel time to the moon is about 11 days. This means that you could send 72 round trips to the moon for every launch window to Mars. Doug...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YZ3Q)
Accion Systems technology is built around a thruster chip architecture. Each chip houses hundreds of microscopic emitters that produce beams of ions generated from our novel propellant source: ionic...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YZ3S)
Elon Musk tweeted out that Tesla is considering a Gigafactory in Texas. Giga Texas? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2020
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by Brian Wang on (#4YZ3T)
1. U.S.-based biotech Gilead, known for its HIV and hepatitis C treatments, has partnered with Beijing’s China-Japan Friendship Hospital to test out an antiviral drug called remdesivir in...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YY62)
As of Dec 2019, the number of lithium ion battery megafactories in the pipeline has reached 115 plants. The world’s leading EV and battery manufacturer added a huge 564GWh of pipeline capacity in...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YW4N)
The NASA Assemblers project is a recently awarded Early Career Initiative (ECI) proposal led out of NASA’s Langley Research Center, seeks to advance the technology, including hardware and software,...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YW4Q)
NASA has awarded a $142 million contract to Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado,to robotically assemble a communications antenna and manufacture a spacecraft beam in orbit. The technology...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YVQG)
China’s top electric vehicle battery maker CATL (300750.SZ) said on Monday it has signed a battery supply agreement with Tesla. Tesla will buy as many batteries as Tesla chooses between July 2020 and...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YVQH)
The third landing of the B1051 booster was a hard landing but it was just within the safety margins the crush cores provide. The fall might have been caused by the drone being at the bottom of a...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YV6G)
The US Air Force and Northrop Grumman have published photorealistic renderings of new concepts for the next-generation stealth bomber, the B-21. The B-21 was expected to reach IOC (initial operating...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YTNF)
Ark Invest has over $11 billion under management and they are huge Tesla bulls. Ark has a new analysis that projects Tesla could have a $7000 per share value by 2024 which would mean the whole...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YTCK)
Doctors in Thailand combined the anti-flu drug oseltamivir with lopinavir and ritonavir, anti-virals used to treat HIV to cure a 71-year-old woman of coronavirus over a 48 hour period....
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by Brian Wang on (#4YT8E)
China is putting $174 billion into the financial markets to prevent financial disruptions related to the coronavirus. China’s central bank said it will inject 1.2 trillion yuan ($174 billion)...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YT4F)
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has officially started the regulatory licensing process for its BWRX-300 reactor design. On 30 December, the company submitted the first licensing topical report for...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YT4H)
The US Navy will focus in 2020 on developing hypersonic weapons at breakneck speed and will have hypersonic weapon tests through the year according to the Acting Secretary of the Navy, Thomas Modly....
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by Brian Wang on (#4YT4J)
Researchers discovered a new cationic cobalt bisphosphine hydroformylation catalyst system that is highly active and extremely robust. Catalysts help transform one chemical substance into another,...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YSCJ)
In 2019, Tesla electric car production passed the combined electric car and plugin hybrid car of Chinese carmaker BYD. This made Tesla the world’s largest electric car maker. Cathie Wood of Ark...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YR8M)
Researchers at Kyushu University have developed highly efficient amino acid synthesis from biomass-derivable acids and water using electric energy. Amino acids are the basic building blocks of...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YP9N)
Nextbigfuture has covered the massive amounts of problems with the F-35 Stealth fighters. There will be trillions of dollars wasted on 2000-3000 F-35 jets. This is not a blogger griping about some...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YP9P)
Princeton Satellite has had various NASA, SBIR and IR&D grants to develop a multi- megawatt-class nuclear fusion propulsion and space power system. This funding has enabled them to precisely...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YP0M)
The Carnival of Space 647 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today reports that the Hubble space telescope found tiny clumps of dark matter. Dark Matter is believed to make up the bulk of the...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YMW1)
Tesla battery drive train day is tentatively planned for April, 2020. Tesla would describe the challenges reach 2000 gigawatt-hours of batteries every year. If that level of batteries was only for...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YMR7)
Tesla released 2019 fourth-quarter earnings and surpassed financial expectations on revenue and had $105 million in profit. The biggest new news is that Tesla already building and delivering model Y...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YMR9)
After Shock is a collection of essays by Futurists. It is published in 2020 which is the 50 year anniversary of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock book. There are many essays reviewing and framing...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YM93)
Nanocavity plasmonic fields can create Raman images of molecular vibration for a visual system that can map the chemical structure of single-molecule. This visual system has 0.1 nanometer (an...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YM95)
OneWeb is competitor to the SpaceX Starlink satellite system. OneWeb successfully launched 6 test satellites and plans a February 7, 2020 Soyuz launch of its first 34 commercial satellites. OneWeb...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YM0N)
SpaceX successfully launched another 60 starlink satellites. There are now be 180 production starlink satellites in orbit. There are about 49 of the test production satellites. It is not known if the...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YKF6)
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by Brian Wang on (#4YKF8)
The new House NASA funding bill is full of cost-plus contracts for Boeing. The new bill talks about Mars in 2033 but does not dedicate funds towards that goal. The White House Artemis Program pushed...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YK96)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the DOE are upgrading the Advanced Light Source (ALS). The combination of the accumulator ring and upgraded main storage ring will enable at least 100 times...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YK98)
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will provide USD10 million over three years to advance particle accelerator technology for medical, security, energy, and industrial applications. The DOE...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YK9A)
If you turn on the news, you probably won’t like what you see and hear. Violence and chaos are erupting all around the world and political tension is at an all-time high. Nations are fighting against...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YK9B)
Elon Musk believes the second test tank could perform significantly better if pressurized with a cryogenic liquid. The steel will cryogenic harden when exposed to extremely cold temperatures which...
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by Brian Wang on (#4YJAH)
The privacy debate is mostly centered around government snooping especially after the stunning revelations about the sheer volume of raw data that governments and their agencies collect under the...
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