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The European Space Agency and Hassell Studio design for a 144 person moonbase has dozens of inflatable modules that will be covered by regolith. The larger inflatable modules are about 22 feet (7 meters wide), ~60 feet long (~18 meters) and up to 14 feet (4 meters tall at the tallest). This is based upon ... Read more

Architect Hassell Studio and the European Space Agency have a Lunar Habitat Master Plan to build a 144 person moon base. Designed in close collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Cranfield University, the Lunar Habitat Master Plan-was unveiled at the ESA's Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands as part of its ... Read more

As of December 29, 2023, Shield AI has a valuation of $2.8 billion and has raised $742.5 million in funding across nine rounds. It has funding from the top silicon valley and technology venture capitalists. The new silicon valley drone companies are pushing more aggressively than previous DARPA-Lockheed Gremlin drone swarm projects. Modern warfare between ... Read more

Shield AI is a defense technology company building one of the world's best AI pilot for aircraft and also makes the V-BAT Teams AI drone swarm product. The Shield AI drones take off vertically and then tilt and fly horizontally at high speed. It will give 24/7 coverage, over 30,000 square miles, to find, fix, ... Read more

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) manages a budget of $7.5 billion to discover, manufacture, and integrate warfighting capabilities and technologies for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. DARPA had a budget of $4.1 billion in 2023. AFRL is close to double the budget of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). AFRL RESEARCH AREA ... Read more

Tesla Optimus humanoid bot has been shown walking before. There is a new video from Elon Musk showing the Optimus bot walking without the white covering pieces. There is the possibility that we are being shown an end to end neural net system controlling the Optimus. All neural net is what the latest Tesla FSD ... Read more

Kaiser Permanente, Oakland's largest private employer, has issued a memo directing workers in downtown Oakland to stay in their buildings for lunch and work. Kaiser has office all over the Bay Area and operates in multiple states. I, Brian Wang, worked for Kaiser for seven years (2010-2017). Kaiser Permanente operates 39 hospitals and more than ... Read more

Airbus and Voyager Space are working together to launch a three deck space station by 2028. It will be launched by the SpaceX Starship. The planned space station will have three decks and the design merges Voyager Space Starlab with the Airbus Loop. The Airbus LOOP Multi-Purpose Orbital Module is designed to be 8 meters ... Read more

Voyager and its operating company, Nanoracks, were awarded a $160 million Space Act Agreement from NASA in December 2021 to create Starlab, a continuously crewed, free- flying space station to replace the International Space Station. Voyager Space and Airbus have a transatlantic joint venture that will design, build, and operate the Starlab commercial space station. ... Read more

At the end of October 2023, China's NEA (National Energy Administration) reported China's installed renewable energy capacity had exceeded 1.4 Terawatts. This capacity includes 420 GW of hydropower, 404 GW of wind power, 536 GW of solar, and 44 GW of biomass. China added 216.9 GW of solar capacity in 2023, marking a 148 % ... Read more

There are indications of room temperature and room pressure superconductivity for LK99, PCPOSOS and now parallel lines of wrinkled graphite. There is significant amounts of experimental, computational simulation and theoretical evidence and support for multiple materials having room temperature and room pressure superconductivity and it usually involves one dimensional superconductivity There is a peer review ... Read more

Silver Spring, Maryland, January 30th, 2024, Cyberwire Aembit Becomes the First Workload IAM Platform to Integrate with the Industry-Leading CrowdStrike Falcon Platform to Drive Workload Conditional Access Aembit, the Workload Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform that enables DevOps and security teams to discover, manage, enforce and audit access between workloads, today announced the availability ... Read more

Neuralink has officially implanted its first brain chip into an actual human. The person is recovering well and the device is detecting neuron spiking. Those who suffer from ALS or spinal cord injury are the people who should apply for device. The Neuralink mission is to create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to ... Read more

EEOC Commissioner informs Mark Cuban that his hiring practice tweets describe a violation of Title VII law. As a general rule, race/sex can't even be a motivating factor-nor a plus factor, tie-breaker, or tipping point. It's important employers understand the ground rules here. If the EEOC determines that employers are in violation of anti-discrimination laws, ... Read more

Researchers published in the peer-reviewed Nature in Dec 2022 estimated that there were 14.83 million excess deaths globally (2020-2022), 2.74 times more deaths than the 5.42 million reported as due to COVID-19 for the period. The Global Covid deaths greatly in declined in 2023 but the excess deaths continued at far higher levels. In Japan ... Read more

The US Tower 22 base at the intersection of Jordan, Syria and Iraq was attacked and three US soldiers were killed and dozens were seriously injured. US Air Force and military mobilization to the Middle East is happening now. There was already deployment of the some of the US Navy and thousands of marines. The ... Read more

Three US soldiers were killed and dozen injured by a drone attack at Tower 22 base in Jordan. There have been other attacks on US bases in the region, but before Sunday there were no fatalities, according to the US military. There have been a total of over 160 attack on US bases and Navy ... Read more

Toronto, Canada, January 29th, 2024, Cyberwire In an era where online threats no longer discriminate by business size, Control D, powered by Windscribe VPNs robust security expertise, announced today the launch of Control D for Organizations. This modern DNS service democratizes cybersecurity, making it accessible to businesses of every size, from budding start-ups to late ... Read more

Tomorrow should be the first launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 of the Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft. It delivers about 3000 kilograms of payload. Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation but manufactured and launched by Northrop Grumman Space Systems as part of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program. It ... Read more

There are some US economists who believe that people should feel good about the US economy because of the following statistics. They are disconnected or are willfully ignoring what people are experiencing. In 2019 and 2020, 18% of those earning over $100,000 were living paycheck to paycheck. In October, 2023, according to CNBC, while three-quarters ... Read more

Astrolab's Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover is built to enhance Lunar and planetary mobility. In November, 2023, Lunar rover developer Astrolab announced eight customers have signed contracts worth more than $160 million for its first mission to the moon in 2026. They signed customers to fly payloads on Mission 1, a flight of the ... Read more

Cubesats built with commercially available components and materials and lacks on-board propulsion to maintain its orbital position last about one year. It is possible for them to last 2-5 years but there is increasing chances of failures. If you were planning a science or commercial mission in space, then you would to plan to get ... Read more

There is a common internet accusation. I write some articles on a topic and then there is some accusation if there is a financial connection. These question are from naive people who do not understand the internet, journalism or business or viable scams. Are the sources above pretending to not have bias? Brian Wang, Do ... Read more

Barry-1 has 2 Quantum Drives: QD1 (Blue Arrow, internal) & QD1-TC (Green Arrow). Both are designed to produce thrust in the same direction (Red Arrow). QD1-TC is expected to produce about 2x the thrust of QD-1. CEO Richard Mansell said it has two drives a 0.25mN and a 0.65mN drive. The DARPA funding (2018-2022 Quantized ... Read more

Nextbigfuture has written about the drone attack and counter drone jamming defenses used in the Ukraine-Russia War. There is a new New Scientist article (behind a Paywall) talking about What Does Ukraine's Million Drone Army mean for the Future of War?" The First Person Drones are a delivery method for grenades and rocket propelled grenades ... Read more

New Street Research provides research on the rapidly growing AI chips and AI Industry. Their projections are for a far larger industry with more infrastructure by 2027. Elon Musk had stated that AI compute was growing by 10X every 6 months, which would be faster than the New Street Projections. New Street Resear Implications: we ... Read more

The IVO quantum inertia drive is in orbit now and will be turned on within one to ten weeks and then operated for many weeks or months. The IVO quantum inertia drive is very controversial because it would go against many theories in physics. Let us assume the 52 millinewton drive using 1 watt of ... Read more

New South Wales, Australia, reached a record high and more efficient critical milestone temperature of 803 C for concentrated solar thermal energy storage. Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight, converting it to heat, which can then be stored or used to generate electricity. Heated ceramic particles act like a battery, storing energy ... Read more

Two near term future products will be a fantastic combination. The Optimus Teslabot will have a 3 kilowatt hour battery pack which is thirty times more than a 100 watt-hour battery for a Macbook Pro. It would be three hundred times more than smartphone batteries. A new Starlink Mini will be released later in 2024 ... Read more

There is an improved plan to bring the factories and power systems to manufacture nanorods on Mars and create an intense global warming effect. A few dozen SpaceX Starships would be ready to bring factory equipment, mining equipment and nuclear or solar energy to manufacture 1.5 million tons of nanorods to warm the atmosphere of ... Read more

The possibility of the controversial IVO Quantized Inertia drive on the Barry-1 satellite working has raised the question of could it be faked with a small Hall Effect Thruster ? I looked at the smallest Hall thrusters. If the Barry-1 thrust is 2 millinewtons or less and lasts for a month or so then it ... Read more

Researchers used the Advanced Photon Source to confirm the rare properties of this material, which could lead to more efficient large-scale computing. Physicists at the University of Washington and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have made a discovery that could help enable this more efficient future. Researchers have found a superconducting ... Read more

Here is information of the Quantized inertia drive and experiments. There is information from several of the papers, video discussions and direct communication that I, Brian Wang, had with Mike McCulloch. Mike McCulloch is working with two other teams planning to launch cubesats with propellentless thrusters, one of them with connections to NASA. DARPA is ... Read more

Five lucky CR7 NFT holders have seen their dreams come true after undergoing a training session with Cristiano Ronaldo himself. The soccer superstar, whose CR7 collection was issued on Binance NFT Marketplace, honored his pledge to meet with holders of the most coveted NFTs. In Lisbon, the Portuguese international met up with the elite group ... Read more

Here is a summary of Dark Matter theory and its evidence versus quantized inertia theory and its evidence. Dark Matter Theory: Gravitational Effects: Observations of galaxy rotation curves: Evidence for Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies Dark matter's role in explaining rotation curves: The Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB): CMB fluctuations and ... Read more

Dark matter is claimed to make up over 80% of all matter in the universe, but scientists have never seen it. We only assume it exists because, without it, the behavior of stars, planets and galaxies simply wouldn't make sense. Quantized Inertia is another theory for explaining the shape and behavior of stars, planets and ... Read more

NORAD tracks all satellites and the Barry-1 satellite with the Quantum drive experiment is being tracked. It is NORAD id code 58338. It is traveling at 4.72 miles per second. If over the next few months it increases in speed instead of falling out of orbit then this would be evidence that the Quantum Drive ... Read more

Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and Chairman of Breakthrough Initiatives, Dr. Pete Worden, discusses the Breakthrough Starshot work on the laser propelled solar sail to Proxima Centauri. Billionaire Yuri Milner committed $100 million for Breakthrough Starshot. They probably had about $10 million worth of contracts around the world to answer these three questions. 1. ... Read more

Background: According to standard physics we cannot travel to the stars in a human lifetime because we need impractical amounts of fuel to get close to light speed. However, a new theory of inertia has been proposed called Quantized Inertia (QI). It predicts standard inertia, as a vacuum effect, at normal accelerations. It also predicts ... Read more

Richard Mansell , Chief Executive Officer at IVO Limited gave the reasons he is optimistic about the Quantum Space Drive tests that will be done in orbital microgravity. IF the orbital test works then it will lead to interstellar travel and shrinking it down would give material that would have anti-gravity like effects. We would ... Read more

X-NASA administrator Mike Griffin now has his own management consulting company and testified to congress that NASA should spend hundreds of billions of dollars for cost-plus contracts from United Launch Alliance for the Moon and Mars program. He testified to the House and told them to fire everyone at NASA and cancel all of the ... Read more

If SpaceX is able to trade a large 477 acre piece of land beside a Texas widelife refuge for 44 acres beside the existing SpaceX Starbase, then SpaceX will nearly double the size of the SpaceX Starbase. The land would be swapped with Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists' understanding of Megalodon behavior, ancient ocean life, and why the sharks went extinct. The Megalodon is largely known only from its teeth and vertebrae in the fossil record. ... Read more

A research team from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), discovered a new superconducting material called (InSe2)xNbSe2, which possesses a unique lattice structure. The superconducting transition temperature of this material reaches 11.6 K, making it the transition metal sulfide superconductor with the highest transition temperature under ambient pressure. TMD materials ... Read more

The first and second stages of Blue Origin New Glenn's test vehicle mate for the first time, enabling us to exercise our tooling and stage interfaces in preparation for our first launch later this year. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has been in development for nearly 12 years. In 2012, Blue Origin began testing the ... Read more

Chinese analysts want to understand why Russian weapons are doing so badly in the war in Ukraine. 70% of China's modern airplanes are licensed copies, unlicensed copies or variants of the SU-27. 20% are inferior planes that are not even as good as the Russian copies. The Ukraine War has been an actual real world ... Read more

Hermeus completed testing of their full system hypersonic ground Mk0 test plane. It is a complete system made in 6 months and tested in 37 days. The fully-integrated vehicle, Quarterhorse Mk 0 is a non-flying prototype acted as a dynamic iron bird' for the company by validating all major aircraft subsystems in a real-world environment. ... Read more

NASA tells Blue Origin and SpaceX to start detailed designing of cargo versions of their human lunar landers. NASA always had the option to get cargo versions of the lunar landers in the original contracts. NASA is now exercising those options to get cargo landers designs to an approved preliminary design review. The actual sizes ... Read more

DoD undersecretary William LaPlante gave the go-ahead to begin producing B-21 Stealth Bomber. Previously revealed budgets and information indicate that Northrop will get $5.3 to 6 billion in 2024 and there will be a slow escalation of the annual budget. This will be enough for 3 new B-21 each year and then increase to 4-5 ... Read more