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This week Chins rocket startup, Landscape, will have its second attempted launch of the Zhuque-2 medium rocket. Landspace has raised over $340 million. Zhuque-2 is a medium-sized rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane capable of lifting 4,000 kg of payload into a 200 km low Earth orbit, or 2,000 kg of payload into a ... Read more

Members of the Safe Street Rebels is placing traffic cones on Cruise and Waymo vehicles to disable the self-driving robotaxis. The cones on the hoods of the cars confuse the driving software. On Thurs 7/13, the CPUC (California Public Utility Commission) will vote to expand AVs in San Francisco. Cruise and Waymo promise they'll reduce ... Read more

China rocket startup Space Pioneer, aka Beijing Tianbing Technology, has raised a total of three billion Chinese yuan ($414 million) across 11 rounds since its establishment in 2018. The funding will be used to complete the Tianlong-3 kerosene-liquid oxygen launch vehicle and its engine and the construction of a dedicated launch complex at the Jiuquan ... Read more

We have made our own gravity wave detectors on Earth that are about 40 kilometers long and detect variation with lasers and now we have used decades of Pulsar observations to detect long wave gravity waves. We needed to create single wavelength lasers and use one-megawatt of power to detect differences of one trillionth of ... Read more

We cannot travel to other star systems and may not be able to travel there for a hundred years. However, we can find and test interstellar material. We can determine that meteors that were traveling faster than solar system escape velocity came from outside the solar system. NASA has a record of about 300 such ... Read more

Japan has had regular high speed rail for commuting betweens its cities for decades. N700A trains can reach 285 km/h (177 mph) on 3,000 m (9,843 ft) curves, allowing the maximum operating speed to be raised to 285 km/h (177 mph). All N700 series were upgraded to N700A but there have been new N700S being ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, July 8th, 2023, Chainwire Aptius Ltd, a British financial enterprise, has developed a new cryptocurrency called BritanniaCoin which will be available for pre-sale from June 18th onwards, ahead of its launch later this year. BritanniaCoin is a British-built blockchain that introduces real-world applications while honouring British cultural heritage. The pre-release contains 316,000 ... Read more

Randy Kirk and Larry Goldberg reviewed my analysis of Tesla margin impacts from almost double Model S and Model X deliveries in Q2 2023 versus Q1 2023. Larry and Randy agree that Tesla will be in the range of 20% margin for Q2 2023. They also estimate the earnings per share will be about 96 ... Read more

World BEV market share was 11% in May and is average 10% in 2023. Global light vehicle sales are forecast to increase by 6.2% y/y to 86.0 million units in 2023. World BEV sales should be about 11 million in 2023. This would be up from 7.2 million in 2022. The world should have 1 ... Read more

Pulsar Fusion (UK) is working on a Direct Fusion Drive (DFD). It is a compact nuclear fusion engine which could provide both thrust and electrical power for spaceships. This technology opens unprecedented possibilities to explore the solar system in a limited amount of time and with a very high payload to propellant masses ratio. This ... Read more

Felix at What About it and other SpaceX followers are covering the installation of the deluge plate and other work to prepare the launch facility for Starship launches. SpaceX is installing the Deluge plate! That's certainly the biggest shower head I've ever seen! Looking at SpaceX's current impressive progress speed, 4-6 weeks for launch ... Read more

Elon Musk spoke today in a video at the World AI Conference 2023. He said FSD will be officially released at the end of this year, and he said Tesla would be happy to license self-driving technology to other car companies. He also ended by praising China's AI capabilities. Elon Musk spoke today in a ... Read more

Dubai, UAE, July 6th, 2023, Chainwire OKX's Signal Trading is a trading bot and marketplace that bridges the gap between signal providers and traders Signal Trading will be integrated with TradingView, enabling signal providers and traders to create signals directly on the leading charting platform A pre-launch waitlist is available now for signal providers and ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, July 6th, 2023, Chainwire Veloce Media Group announces major investment commitment of $50 million from GEM Digital LimitedSignificant investment to fuel Veloce Media Group's growth Gem Digital Ltd a global leading digital asset investment firm Following the announcement of Veloce Media Group's evolution to Web3, with the launch of its new blockchain ... Read more

Tesla should have over 20% auto gross margin in Q2 2023. This is a big factor for whether the share price of Tesla goes up for the next few months. Tesla Model S and X have an average selling price about twice the Model Y. The Model S and X sales and deliveries in Q1 ... Read more

Santa Clara, California-based Alef Aeronautics has been certified for test flights be able to take off into the air vertically and fly like a helicopter up to 110 miles on a single charge. The whole car becomes a wing, a circular wing. Alef is taking pre-orders for a $150 deposit. The company is backed by ... Read more

The Ariane 5 rocket will have its last launch this week. The rocket had its first launch in 1996 and should end with 112 successful launches out of 117 attempts. It could launch 35000 to 44000 lbs to low earth orbit and 15000 lbs to GTO (geosynchronous transfer orbit). It cost 150 million to 200 ... Read more

Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, signed a launch agreement with Lockheed Martin to support a technology demonstration mission that will launch aboard Firefly's Alpha vehicle. Firefly's Alpha rocket provides affordable and responsive launch services with the capability to lift more than 1,000 kg to low Earth orbit. The vehicle utilizes Firefly's patented ... Read more

In June 2023, Firefly Aerospace acquired Spaceflight Inc. to strengthen Firefly's on-orbit solutions and service the entire lifecycle of customers' satellites and spacecraft. The acquisition further supports Firefly's robust portfolio of low-cost space transportation services, including responsive launch and in-space mobility, on-orbit hosting and servicing, and lunar delivery operations. Spaceflight's flight-proven orbital vehicles provide payload ... Read more

Telstra has signed an agreement to become the first telco in the world to use Starlink low-earth-orbit Satellites for voice-only services while at the same time offering Starlink Broadband to regional and remote Australia. In areas where copper lines for phones are degraded, out of reach or impossible to install, Telstra will now put a ... Read more

BYD sold 128,196 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in June 2023, up 84.34 percent from 69,544 units in the same month last year and up 7.18 percent from 119,603 units in May. This is updating a comparison of BYD and Tesla from May 2023. BYD sold 616,000 BEVs in the first half of 2023. Tesla sold ... Read more

Tesla had a big beat on Q2, 2023 deliveries with 466,140 cars delivered and 479,700 car produced. I think Tesla will trend around 90% of actual production capacity (production being demonstrated sustained over weeks). In Q1 2023, Tesla delivered 423k cars and produced 440k cars. This was about 89% of real peak production capacity. Tesla ... Read more

In the second quarter 2023, Tesla produced nearly 480,000 vehicles and delivered over 466,000 vehicles. This was a 20,000 car beat on deliveries (including about 5,000 more S/X than expected), which was about $1.2 to 1.5 billion more in revenue. This would be $400M to 600M more on profit. This Q2 was 40,000 that was ... Read more

Here is a video of a flight of a Soviet N1 rocket hot staging. [likely animated] Flight History of N1 Rocket N1 1L - full scale dynamic test model, each stage was individually dynamically tested; the full N1 stack was only tested at 1/4 scale. N1 2L (1M1) - Facilities Systems Logistic Test and Training ... Read more

ArianeGroup has successfully carried out the first ignition campaign of the reusable Prometheus(R) engine on the reusable Themis rocket core stage demonstrator - a key step in providing Europe with the essential technological building blocks for future reusable launchers. This test of a complete rocket stage running on liquid oxygen and bio-methane is a first ... Read more

Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt have funded inflection.ai, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman, with $1.3 billion and a valuation of $4 billion. They claim to have the world's best AI hardware setup. They will build AI hardware with 22,000 of the latest Nvidia H100 chips. Inflection.AI ... Read more

SpaceX Starship had a static fire test of its six engines. Ship 25 completes a six-engine static fire test at Starbase in Texas pic.twitter.com/wCCrh0RRNA - SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 27, 2023 Starship Grazer provides actual pictures (not renderings) of the central water cooled plate that will be installed under the orbital launch mount. Awesome! First look ... Read more

UPDATE: There is an image of an Ariane Rocket with hotstaging. Here are images of Russian rockets with hot staging. Tony Bela of Infographic News has put together images of what the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will look like while hot staging. Elon Musk described the planned use of hot staging for Starship launch. Hot ... Read more

Elon Musk announced data limits on Twitter to prevent data scraping and system manipulation. Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day New unverified accounts to 300/day This will shift soon to Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified 800 for unverified 400 for new unverified Rate limits increasing ... Read more

Quantum Computing company, IonQ, surged 30% in one day and is up 5X from the lows early this year, It appears IonQ will provide education and training services to South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT.

The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) has been testing SpaceX's Starlink satellite communication (satcom) services since March, a spokesperson for the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) told Janes on 27 June. This would be relying on SpaceX Starlink to provide secure and unjammable communications in the event of a conflict with China or Russia. STARLINK is ... Read more

Virgin Galactic 01 carried 13 research payloads and three crew members from the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council of Italy - congratulations to all the team. And congratulazioni ai membri dell'equipaggio Galactic 01. Virgin Galactic was part of the revival of commercial space when they won the XPrize a suborbital flight. Virgin ... Read more

The US Space Development Agency (SDA) is issuing this Other Transaction Authority (OT) solicitation to establish the foundation for Tranche 2 (T2) of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The PWSA's operational utility is predicated on the availability of a ubiquitous data and communications Transport Layer provided by a proliferated constellation of relatively small, mass-producible ... Read more

Manchester, UK, June 30th, 2023, Chainwire Manchester City and OKX, one of the leading crypto exchanges by trading volume and a leading Web3 technology company, today announced OKX as the Club's Official Sleeve Partner in a new multi-year agreement. As part of the expanded deal, the OKX brand will feature on the left sleeve of ... Read more

Canada now has 40.1 million people. Statscan realtime calculation is an increase of over 103,000 in two weeks since passing 40.0 million. If this pace was kept up Canada would add 1.3 million more people in the remainder of 2023. Statistics Canada says Canada added more than 145,000 immigrants during the first three months of ... Read more

New York, New York, June 30th, 2023, Chainwire Memecoin Mooky is gearing up for its final presale phase, having raised $900,000 to date. More than just a novel crypto token, Mooky aims to support the environment through a major tree-planting campaign. Mooky will be a community-driven platform whose governance lies in the hands of its ... Read more

Tesla will shutdown the Giga Texas Model Y production lines in July, 2023 for give days to improve the Model Y production lines and increase production. Tesla Texas production is currently 5000 cars per week. Tesla will shift some of its workers from the Model Y to support the start of Cybertruck production. Want some ... Read more

Tesla's made in China Model 3 will use CATL's new M3P lithium iron phosphate battery, with the base model battery pack capacity upgraded from 60 kWh to 66 kWh, according to 36kr. Tesla has upgraded the battery pack with previous major improvements to the Model 3. The standard range version of the China-made Model 3 ... Read more

China is planning dozens of missions to the moon to first build a research base and then convert it into a multifunctional international moonbase. They plan to employ 3D printing and production of bricks from the lunar regolith. More than 100 researchers from domestic universities, research institutes and space contractors took part in the Extraterrestrial ... Read more

NASA OSIRIS-REx mission is returning on September 24, 2023 with 250 grams of the Bennu asteroid. The samples were collected in 2020 but it has taken this long for the mission to return. China will attempt to collect the first samples from the far side of the moon next year with its Chang'e 6 mission. ... Read more

The Supreme Court has ruled public and private Universities cannot use race as a factor in college admissions. Harvard and other Universities have used race factors to reduce the admissions of Asian Americans. Asian Americans have in general had superior SAT scores and other grades. This was increasing the percentage of Asian Americans admitted to ... Read more

Ark Invests described how compute and data are the keys to self driving (autonomy). Tesla has both large amounts of compute and driving data. Waymo and Cruise have 100 to 1000 times less driving data than Tesla. Tesla probabably has 10x more compute and will scale to 200X more compute. Waymo and Cruise are likely ... Read more

Astronomers turned networks of dead stars into galaxy-size gravitational wave detectors, radio astronomers have tuned into the slowly undulating swells in spacetime thought to arise from pairs of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that are about to collide. We are improving instruments and creating new instruments to improve our gravitational map of the universe. As a ... Read more

A new design for computer memory that could both greatly improve performance and reduce the energy demands of internet and communications technologies, which are predicted to consume nearly a third of global electricity within the next ten years. A typical USB stick based on continuous range would be able to hold between ten and 100 ... Read more

Neo Semiconductor has announced the world's first 3D stackable DRAM technology, called 3D X-DRAM, that could revolutionize computer memory. Neo estimates 3D X-DRAM can achieve 128Gb density with 230 layers. This is 8 times greater compared to today's best solutions with DDR5 technology. Neo Semiconductor is located in San Jose, California. 3D stacking of silicon ... Read more

Elon Musk is training with MMA champion and legend George St. Pierre. In the Battle of the Billionaires, Elon Musk is getting the best MMA person for training. The Facebook CEO, Zuckerberg, has been training with Dave Caramillo and recently won his first amateur Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) tournament. On Episode 1470 of the popular Joe ... Read more

TradingThomas (52k followers) reports Nancy Pelosi bought PUTS against Nvidia. This would suggest she has insider knowledge that the considerations about a far stronger ban against Nvidia and AMD chip sales to China will happen. Nancy Pelosi bought puts on $NVDA today - Tom (@TradingThomas3) June 28, 2023 I believe you pic.twitter.com/094lBVQu6V - Phoenix Stocks ... Read more

The US federal government is considering more restrictions on the export to China of powerful computing chips that are good for large language model AI. Nvidia was already required to make a weaker version of its flagship A100 for China, but even that weakened chip wouldn't be allowed under the rules under consideration. Nvidia and ... Read more

The White House distributed $42 billion of internet access funding. This funding is the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program which is part of the 2021 $1 trillion infrastructure act. The spending will be based on a newly released Federal Communications Commission coverage map that details gaps in access. This is the initial proposals for ... Read more

Hong Kong, China, June 28th, 2023, Chainwire DWF Labs, the global digital asset market maker, and multi-stage Web3 investment firm, has further strengthened its commitment to support the growth of Conflux, the tree-graph consensus algorithm Layer-1 blockchain. Conflux has been gaining significant traction since February 2023 on the back of some key partnerships, including the ... Read more