SpaceX has filed to launch Gen 2 Starlink satellites once every week in 2023. If they are able to use the Super Heavy Starship they could launch 100 at a time. This would reach up to 5000 Gen 2 Starlink satellites with direct voice and text to your existing cellphone. This would enable 80 times …
SpaceX has now over 3120 Starlink Satellites in orbit. They launched 52 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, and one Starlink mission. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on …
This was SpaceX Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s fifth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-5) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch was successful. Meet Crew-5 pic.twitter.com/k4nwgMAIuK — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 5, 2022
There are various reports of continuing Ukrainian advances in Kherson. Russia seems to have had to fall back another 20 kilometers in Kherson. Getting pushed into small pockets. Ukraine continues to have upper hand with recon, information and destroying supplies, logistics and ammo. It is flat terrain in Kherson on the north side of the …
COVID strains that look poised to drive the latest comeback are all subvariants of Omicron, which swept the globe over the past year. BA.2.75.2, seems to be spreading quickly in India, Singapore, and parts of Europe. Other new immune-evading strains have evolved from BA.5, including BQ.1.1, which has been spotted in multiple countries around the …
China’s GDP in 2021 was 114 trillion yuan and in 2022 the yuan has weakened against the US dollar. The yuan is now 7.12 to 1 US dollar. China’s nominal GDP is now 16.0 trillion instead of 17.7 trillion last year. It was 115 yen to 1 US dollar at the end of 2021. It …
BYD sold 200,973 hybrid and electric cars in September, 2022. They sold 94,941 battery electric vehicle in September, 2022 up 161.5 percent from 36,306 units in Sept, 2021. BYD sold 106,032 units Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) in Spetember, 2022 which is up 214.49 percent from 33,716 units in the same period last year. The BYD …
SpaceX could have three Falcon 9 launches in one week. SpaceX had 6 launches in 17 days in June, 2022. In 2023, SpaceX is looking to sustain about 9 launches per month and hit about 100 launches in a year. To allow more time for pre-launch checkouts, now targeting Tuesday, October 4 for launch of …
Elon Musk has agreed to pay full price for Twitter. This will end the trial and lift the uncertainty. Elon is overpaying and there are more Bots on Twitter but the pro-deal Delaware judge does not care. Elon did not like bad deal he made but it was too late. Elon agreeing to go forward …
In early 2022, Google revealed it is operating a full cluster of eight of these AI supercomputing pods in its Oklahoma data center. There is combined 9 exaflops of peak aggregate performance. Google believes this makes this “the world’s largest publicly available ML hub in terms of cumulative computing power, while operating at 90% carbon-free …
The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument has detected liquid water beneath the Mars South Polar Ice Cap. This data supports the presence of basal water beneath Ultimi Scopuli and suggest. If we bring surface topography instruments to Mars we could get radar confirmation other potential subglacial water bodies and confirm this …
