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ISAR Aerospace is a 3-year-old German rocket startup. They are making small rockets in the Rocketlab size class. ISAR’s rocket is called Spectrum. It is a two-stage launch vehicle that is...

During the 2021 Annual Berkshire Hathaway share meeting, Warren Buffet says SPAC make it tougher for Berkshire to make new acquisitions. Berkshire has been competing with private equity funds for a...

Blue Origin and Dynetics each filed protests with GAO over NASA’s selection of SpaceX for the Human Lunar Landing System. Two weeks ago, NASA chose SpaceX to proceed into development, awarding it a...

NPR reports that an Indian village with 1600 people had fifty people die from COVID in the past two weeks. Most of them died at home, gasping for breath, with fevers. Only five or six of them were...

Waymo has two co-CEOs. The Waymo plan is to expand its ridehailing business from Phoenix to other places. Waymo One. They will expand Waymo driving to truck delivering services. Waymo Via. Waymo One...

China has launched a 20 ton core space station module. They will launch two more lab modules in 2022. The Tianhe space station will be similar to the Soviet Salyut space station modules. The station...

There are claims that Intel’s full 10-nanometer process chip is equal to the TSMC 7N chip. TSMC seems to be 40% better in transistor density with its 5N plus chip and will make more...

Here is a presentation by Taiwan Semiconductor Chairman Liu. TSMC and Samsung are the current masters of EUV lithography. TSMC has the lead. Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography has enabled TSMC to...

China has said that its population did not drop in 2020. China had about 10-12 million births in 2020 and likely had just short of 10 million deaths. China has reported 9.4 to 9.8 million annual...

The US Navy will place its first at-sea hypersonic missiles aboard one of the service’s three Zumwalt-class destroyers in four years (by 2025). These will likely be hypersonic warheads on regular...

TSMC evolutionary N4 process will enter risk production later in 2021 and will be used for mass production in 2022. 80% of TSMC’s $30 billion capital budget this year will be spent on expanding...

Taiwan Semiconductor will be mass-producing Apple’s new M2 chip in July for use in MacBooks for the second half of 2021. The M2 will eventually be used in other Mac and Apple devices beyond the...

The $2.9 billion NASA funding for the SpaceX Lunar Starship means that a Starship will get man-rated for four astronauts. This means getting the chance of loss of crew less than one in 500 for a...

SpaceX has launched another 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster supporting this...

The 2020 US Department of Defense reports that China’s Navy has more vessels than the US Navy. The PRC has the largest navy in the world, with an overall battle force of approximately 350 ships...

Here is The 2021 battery technology roadmap from the Journal of Applied Physics. A roadmap presents an overview of the current state of various kinds of batteries, such as the Li/Na/Zn/Al/K-ion...

In 2020, LG Energy Solution added the most passenger EV battery capacity deployed onto roads. It is supplying Tesla in China and VW, Renault and Mercedes in Europe. CATL added the second most battery...

The social distancing, specifically the Six-Foot Rule, a guideline that offers little protection from pathogen-bearing aerosol droplets sufficiently small to be continuously mixed through an indoor...

The Interstellar Probe is a space mission to discover physical interactions shaping globally the boundary of our Sun`s heliosphere and its dynamics and for the first time directly sample the...

Tesla’s Q1 2021 earnings call had several statements which indicate that Tesla is targeting the production of 2 million cars in 2022. Tesla expects to sell over 500,000 Model 3 in 2022. Tesla...

There is speculation that China’s 2020 census could report a population that is already in decline. China reported an estimated population of over 1.4 billion in 2018. China’s population...

Plasma Kinetics makes light-activated hydrides. It removed the hydrogen from a hydride using light. It system is safe, clean, and scalable and holds more energy than a lithium-ion battery, costing...

Solid-State batteries have been difficult to make but would have many benefits if they are mass-produced. * faster charging times * increase energy density up to 2 to 8 times * Range of 500-800 km *...

Elon Musk said that the Model 3 was the top-selling luxury sedan in the world in Q1 2021. Model 3 outsold combustion engine cars. Elon Musk said that Model Y will become the top-selling car of any...

Lyft has sold off its autonomous vehicle unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet Holdings subsidiary for $550 million. Lyft will receive $550 million in cash, with $200 million paid upfront. $350 million will...

Tesla had $438 Million in GAAP net income and over $1 billion in non-GAAP net income. Tesla almost reached its Q4 revenue 2020 with the traditionally weak first quarter. Tesla grew its gross margin...

Elon Musk is getting a lot of media coverage when he repeated his statement that it will be very risky for the first people who go to Mars. This is an obvious statement of fact. I heard radio hosts...

The China State controlled media seems to be preparing people for low 2020 population census. China’s National Bureau of Statistics says it will publish some preliminary data from the...

NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet aboard the...

Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis discuss optimistic views of the future in wide-ranging topics from energy and communications to knowledge and transport, the importance of making humanity an...

Gartner Hype Cycle is misapplied because really nothing should get past the starting point if it does not have significant funding, a first product and then a first sale. The hype cycle is misapplied...

SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour is launching four astronauts launch from Earth to their new home in space, the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft and Falcon 9...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) raised its 2021 capital expenditure target to $30 billion which is up from the $28 billion plan in January. TSMC CEO C.C. Wei said TSMC expects to invest...

A draft of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) released in March 2021 showed government plans to reach 70 GWe gross of nuclear capacity by the end of 2025. China is currently just short of...

USNC-Tech has a NASA NIAC phase i study for a compact twenty thousand-watt, 500 kg dry mass, radioisotope-electric-propulsion spacecraft design powered by a novel Chargeable Atomic Battery (CAB) that...

A DNA construct is an artificially constructed segment of nucleic acid. It can be isolated or integrated in another DNA molecule. A recombinant DNA construct is produced by laboratory methods....

A turtle carries its own habitat. While reliable, it costs energy in transporting mass. NASA makes the same trade-off when it transports habitats and other structures needed for human and other...

Researchers have shown the first far-field endoscope based on multimode fiber. Due to its extended depth of field, the holographic endoscope is capable of imaging macroscopic objects in a wide range...

Elon Musk has tweeted that there was no autopilot or FSD activated during the recent Tesla crash. The best theory that is making the rounds now is that the two people who died in a Tesla crash had...

In Italy, births plunged 21.6% in December, 2020 from the December 2019 and France had the lowest total babies born in a year since WW2. National birth levels seem to be down around 2-20% around the...

In 2020, the number of expected babies per South Korean woman fell to 0.84 in 2020 which is down from the previous record low of 0.92 in 2019. The capital city Seoul has almost 20% of the population...

This is an opportunity for experienced product managers or if you know experienced product managers. Cisco is looking to hire 2 experienced product managers for Cisco’s new SaaS product. The...

India is having a surge in COVID cases and seems likely to surpass 300,000 cases per day. Cases are up 63% from the prior week. This has reached a level that has hit the valuation of the Rupee, is...

There have been several world-changing entrepreneurs. Henry Ford and John D Rockefeller created industries that were critical for the second industrial revolution. The US had large-scale urbanization...

NASA has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface. NASA is still going to use the...

Zachary Manchester of Carnegie Mellon University has received a phase 1 NASA NIAC grant and will study how to create mechanical metamaterials to design lightweight deployable structures with...

Space Telescope Design That Will Be 400 Times Better at Finding Asteroids

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Generating artificial gravity inside rotating space habitats has been a dream of science fiction since the earliest pioneers of astronautics. However, rotating to produce artificial gravity poses a...

The Solar System Pony Express is a global, multi-spectral, high-resolution planetary surveyor supported by regular visits from a cycler satellite network to retrieve petabits of data for transit to...