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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

Elon Musk has said that Tesla will move FSD (Full Self Driving) out of beta with Version 12. Version 12 won't be beta - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2023 They are actually much more than point releases, but the team is reserving 11.420 for the big one - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023 ... Read more

NASA is working with seven U.S. companies on next generation Space Station designs. ThinkOrbital, Vast and Sierra Space/Blue Origin have interesting designs. NASA is also talking to SpaceX and Northrop Grumman and Voyager/Nanoracks. Think Orbital will use a CanadaArm to assemble hexagonal and pentagram pieces that will be stacked during launch. They will be assembled ... Read more

DeepMind's Gemini is a large language model that works with text and is similar to GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. Deepmin CEO Demi Hassabis says his team will combine LLM with AlphaGO reinforcement learning. Gemini will still take months to complete and hundreds of millions of dollars. Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, said in April that creating ... Read more

Finish startup Steady Energy aims to build a nuclear district heating plant using a planned LDR-50 small modular reactor (SMR) by 2030. The company was spun out from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - has raised EUR2.0 million (USD2.2 million) in seed funding led by VTT, Yes VC and Lifeline Ventures. The LDR-50 ... Read more

Philadelphia, United States, June 27th, 2023, Chainwire TinyTap, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands and the leading edtech platform for user-generated educational games, and Open Campus brings the power of gamified learning and blockchain together at Booth #210 in the ISTE Live 23 Conference from 26-28 June 2023 in Philadelphia, PA. TinyTap leverages blockchain technology to ... Read more

Dubai, UAE, June 27th, 2023, Chainwire OKX, the second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume and a leading Web3 technology company, today launched its new Nitro Spreads' feature on its institutional Liquid Marketplace, an OTC, futures spreads and options liquidity network, allowing traders to make complex basis trades with simple one-click execution. Basis trading is a ... Read more

Tony S and other in the Ringwatchers Discord have three new possibilities for vents for the hot staging of SpaceX Starship. Elon Musk described continuous thrust of several booster engines while the upper stage Starship separates and also engages its engines. This change could enable a 10% increase in payload to orbit. This would be ... Read more

Tesla is still selling more pure electric cars (BEV) than its rival BYD. BYD had more hybrid and battery electric car unit sales. However, fewer pure BEV sales. May, 2023, BYD plug-in car sales results: BEVs: 119,603 (up 124% year-over-year) PHEVs: 119,489 (up 96% year-over-year) Total: 239,092 (up 109% year-over-year) BYD plug-in sales Jan-May 2023 ... Read more

NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is developing the next set of innovative technologies to enable human and robotic space missions. The NASA Strategic Technology Framework guides how STMD makes investments categorized into four themes: Go, Land, Live and Explore. Each includes specific strategic outcomes that span 18 technology capability areas. Dr. Julie Kleinhenz, NASA's ... Read more

James Cameron knew that the submarine was lost on Monday. He said communications and location transponder was lost at the same time on descent. James Cameron went three times deeper than the Titanic wreck in his own submarine that went to the bottom of the Marianas trench. The submarine community wrote to the company to ... Read more

For years, Alphabet's Waymo, Tesla and others leaders have promised autonomous vehicles will be here soon. However, we are currently short of the promised robotaxi capabilities. Here is a summary of the current situation. Tesla Full self-driving beta for city streets to roughly 400,000 customers in North America. FSD is bought by about 10% of ... Read more

Dover, USA, June 26th, 2023, Chainwire MetaBlaze, a pioneering Web 3 Gaming, and AI Company, is building momentum as they approach its upcoming Q3 launch. Between strategic partnerships with household Crypto Gaming brands, a sold-out presale, and a never-before-seen AI-Integrated NFT collection, the MetaBlaze ecosystem is primed for its next evolution stage. MetaBlaze Reaches $4M ... Read more

Mars Direct 3 offers a modular approach to solving the many challenges for a SpaceX Starship Mars mission. This includes the development of a new Mars lander -based on SpaceX's Starship vehicle- to serve as the crewed ship, while keeping the Starship as a cargo ship, though a Starship-only approach is also considered. Mars Direct ... Read more

Harvard professor Avi Leob team of two dozen researchers and support staff spent two weeks and 1.5 million dollars on bringing a tenth of a millionth of the debris mass from the IM1 interstellar meteor to the deck of their ship. They plan to analyze this material thoroughly in the coming weeks and publish the ... Read more

Elon Musk told Ashlee Vance on a Twitter Space, that SpaceX had recently decided to switch to a hot-staging" approach where the Starship upper stage will ignite its engines while still attached to the Super Heavy booster. Musk said, describing the switch to hot staging. There's a meaningful payload-to-orbit advantage with hot-staging that is conservatively ... Read more

Prigozhin and Wagner have agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed, their leader said on Saturday, in a de-escalation of what had become a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin's grip on power. This is being reported by Reuters. The fighters of the Wagner private army run by former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin were already ... Read more