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The SpaceX SN15 Starship had a good flight and landing. Here are more images from the flight and landing. SOURCES- SpaceX, What About It? Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

SpaceX had a good flight and landing of the SN15 Starship. This was a successful high-altitude flight test of Starship serial number 15 (SN15). It was the fifth high-altitude flight test of a...

Parachute assaults have been the exception, rather than the rule but paratroopers are still useful. Airborne troops are the first “boots on the ground” in any crisis. This could be major combat or...

SpaceX is in the process of another attempted launch of the Starship SN15. Several SpaceX Starships have made it the ten-kilometer altitude. There was one that safely landed but then it blew up in...

Today is May the Fourth be with you day. Star Wars is usually considered a Space Opera Fantasy and not a source of accurate predictions of the future. However, there is a significant probability that...

Netherlands Urban Intervention SOF team setup exercises to explore the tactical value of the Gravity Jet Suit. Rapid deployment and access to top cover positions, plus rapid relocation in pursuit of...

Gravity Industries has demonstrated using a jet suit to help board a ship. The person in a jet suit flies a few hundred meters onto a ship and then lowers a climbing rope for a boarding party. This...

Canada’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute created a COVID Misery Index. They compared the misery experienced by Canada against 14 other nations. They used 16 measures for which there is sufficient...

Apple iOS 14.5 requires all apps to ask for permission before data is shared. Facebook and Instagram have notices that if you do not share your data with them that there may be future charges....

AscendEx will Launch SHOPX on May 6, 2021. This will provide access to the high-utility e-commerce token of the Splyt E-commerce Protocol. AscendEx was founded in 2018 as BitMax.io. AscendEx is a...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) is planning to build several more chipmaking factories in the U.S. state of Arizona beyond the one currently planned. In May 2020, TSMC announced they...

Hydrostor, a long duration energy storage solution provider, today announced the development of 1,000 MW of long duration energy storage in the state. The California Public Utilities Commission has...

Researchers from Sweden, Finland and Japan have now constructed a semiconductor component in which information can be efficiently exchanged between electron spin and light – at room temperature and...

Marvel has released a phase IV trailer. It shows new movie titles like Wakanda Forever for Black Panther 2. They used the voice of Stan Lee for first half of the trailer to celebrate the moments and...

Tesla has 25% global market share for unit sales of battery electric vehicles, followed by SAIC Motor with 17%, Volkswagen with 8%, Stellantis with 5% and BYD with 5%. Hyundai-Kia and Renault-Nissan...

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...