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A NASA JPL researcher has calculated that Oumuamua was probably a cloud of debris and not an interstellar space sail fragment. There was a Harvard research theory that Oumuamua was an interstellar space sail fragment. The new JPL analysis is simpler and explains other observations and is consistent with the way other dwarf comets break apart. Oumuamua had a lot of anomalies in its orbit and path through the solar system. It had to be an interstellar object because it was moving a speed that is beyond the solar system escape velocity. This means it could not have had an The post Oumuamua as a Cloud of Debris Explains Anomalies appeared first on NextBigFuture.com.

OneSpace is currently working toward a launch of its OS-M rocket as early as late March, 2019. They have recently performed engine and fairing separation tests. One Space is developing smart small...

Elon Musk and SpaceX have simplified the Raptor engine and the Starship engine design. Every decision that is being made from the use of stainless steel metal, reduced payload and lower powered...

Low-cost batteries are critical to Tesla’s main products of electric cars and battery storage systems. Tesla has patented a new battery system. The patent describes a new battery cell chemistry...

Tesla plans to go to multiples of Model 3 with the Model Y, Tesla Pickup truck and self-driving cars. They project the Model Y production and demand will be 50% more than Model 3 and could end up...

Elon Musk has tweeted pictures of the completed raptor engines that will be installed on the Starhopper. SpaceX is preparing to fire the Starship Raptor engines in Texas. They have made a 200-ton...

Tesla cars and other electric vehicles are having trouble with the cold weather hitting much of the United States. However, Canadians deal with cold weather every winter and Canadian Tesla owners did...

Sensors were repurposed on the Curiosity rover and turned them into gravimeters, which measure changes in gravitational pull. That enabled them to measure the subtle tug from rock layers on lower...

Researchers have built a sheet of nickel with nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter. Titanium is as strong as steel but about twice as light. This new...

David Sinclair is working on various anti-aging molecules. He was famous for discovering the anti-aging effect of resveratrol and sirtuins. David Sinclair was interviewed on the Joe Rogan show about...

Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, technologist, and entrepreneur. She co-founded Socos, where machine learning and cognitive neuroscience are combined to maximize students’ life...

A Norwegian distributor of CAT heavy machinery has converted a CAT excavator to electric power using 3.4 tons of batteries. This was 300 kWh of batteries. A Tesla 85 kWh battery pack weighs 1,200 lb...

Elon Musk is projecting volume production of the Tesla Model 3 in China by the end of 2019. Elon Musk believes that they will reach a combined production of 10,000 Model 3 cars per week from the...

SpaceX is building walls around its Starhopper construction area. Here are some pictures from BocaChicagal at the Nasa Space Forum, Austin Barnard and Maria Pointer via Cowboy Dan’s twitter....

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SpaceX has applied for a launch date of March 7, 2019 or later for the next Falcon Heavy launch. The first Falcon Heavy launch of 2019 will place Arabsat-6A spacecraft for Saudi Arabia into...

Dongguk University and other Korean researchers have made wafer scale hexagonal boron nitride films with a nearly perfect single-crystalline structure. The film self-assembles on top of liquid gold....

Boeing will soon decide whether to spend $15 billion to develop a new 797 mid-range passenger jet. The proposed 797 would have an oval-shaped body that saves weight and fuel. 797 trip costs would be...

Aridor, chairman of the board of AEBi and CEO Dr. Ilan Morad, say the AEBi anti-cancer treatment, which they call MuTaTo (multi-target toxin) is essentially on the scale of a cancer antibiotic – a...

Uber is trying to commercialize ride-sharing electric flying taxis within 5 years. Uber wants to have two demonstrator flights by 2020. Uber wants to begin commercial flights in 2023. Uber needs to...

When particular areas are automated then what is provided from automation becomes the competitive ante. The work and the activity will be to add more. This could mean creating more locations or...

Blue Origin has successfully launched a first commercial payload. It was a sub-orbital launch with the New Shepard rocket. The New Shepard system took 8 NASA-sponsored research and technology...

Blue Origin has started building a BE-4 rocket-engine production facility in Huntsville, Alabama. It will cost more than $200 million and employ about 300 when it opens in March 2020. This was...

Brazil’s mining company Vale has had its second iron tailings dam collapse in the last four years. An iron tailing dam burst on Friday. There are forty confirmed dead and about 200 people are...

Germany has announced that they will close down all coal power plants by 2038 according to Clean Energy Wire. Germany plans to close 25% of existing coal-burning plants (12.5 gigawatts) by 2022. This...

The Wall Street Journal featured Tesla’s Gigafactory in China. China is already Tesla’s second largest market. Tesla sold 14,000 cars in China in 2018, but China plans is for the new...

China will not approve wind and solar power projects unless they can compete with coal power prices. China stopped subsidizing large scale solar projects in May, 2018. This was reported by John...

One of the problems preventing the Multi-billion dollar ITER nuclear fusion project from scaling to provide commercial energy are disruptions of the plasma. Disruptions are sudden events that can...

Quantexa has developed revolutionary Entity Resolution and Network Analytics technology that enable deeper insights into complex financial and real-world criminal problems like human trafficking....

SpaceX continues to march ahead with the Starhopper. They are recovering from the wind damaged nose cone for the Starhopper and they placed fuel tanks into the bottom half of the Starhopper. Elon...

Scott Galloway and Maureen Mullen had mostly successful predictions for digital technology in 2018. They predicted that Amazon would be the strongest of the big 4 (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google)....

SpaceX has completed a static firing for a Falcon 9 rocket with the crew dragon capsule. They are targeting a February launch. If this flight is successful then there will be a flight abort test in...

The US has funded Quantum Science and Engineering with the $1.2 billion National Quantum Initiative Act. The funding is spread of 5 years. This funding is for all quantum related science and...

Quantum Circuits (QCI) is using superconducting qubits in a modular, robust, and scalable architecture. They are a spinout from Yale University. QCI’s unique software platform harnesses the...

A Columbia University-led team has developed a new method to finely tune adjacent layers of graphene—lacy, honeycomb-like sheets of carbon atoms—to induce superconductivity. Above – Applying...

Researchers demonstrated thermal lithography. They used a probe heated above 100 degrees Celsius to outperform standard methods for making metal electrodes on 2D semiconductors such as molybdenum...

Boeing successfully completed the first test flight of its autonomous passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype in Manassas, Virginia. Boeing NeXt, which leads the company’s urban air mobility...

Deep Mind has a StarCraft II program AlphaStar. It is the first Artificial Intelligence to defeat a top professional human player. In a series of test matches held on 19 December, AlphaStar...

Austin Bernard has footage of the SpaceX work to repair the half of the Starhopper which was blown over in 50 mph winds. documentation:1-24-19welders already working hard on either restoring or...

An Alibaba backed open research think tank (the Luohan Academy) has published a 22-page report which says that AI, mobile internet, e-commerce are not destroying more jobs than they create....

Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) – the bacterium commonly associated with chronic gum disease – appears to drive Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology. University of Louisville researcher has strong...

Rocketstar LLC plans to launch a 3D printed aerospike rocket to over 50 miles altitude on February 7, 2019. Aerospike engines will use 25–30% less fuel at low altitudes. Rocketdyne did a lot of tests...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a Delta IV Heavy on January 19, 2019. It was their 132nd successful launch. The launch was NROL-71. The rocket was probably carrying a large spy...

Canada, Brazil, Peru and Colombia have joined the USA in recognizing Juan Guaido in Venezuela. This is reported by the Global News in Canada. The Miami Herald reported crowds amassed in Sucre, in...