US loading armored vehicles with Israeli active defense to deter Russia
The latest version of Israel’s Trophy defense system stopped more than 95 percent of 300 missiles and rockets shot at it in Israeli tests this summer.
Month: September 2018
Fascinating True Efforts for breaking German Enigma and Lorenz cipher
There were at least two major things that gave Britain’s codebreakers at Bletchley Park a headstart in breaking the German Enigma code machine. * A German spy defected before the war and gave the French a working military Enigma machine and a starter codebook. The French shared this to the British and the Polish * …
Ariane is in deep denial about SpaceX BFR
Astrophysicist Francis Rocard lead the Solar System exploration program at CNES. He was interviewed by a French newspaper Courrier International. Rocard showed that Ariane is still in denial about SpaceX. They accept Falcon 9 and now the block 5 Falcon 9 are the lowest cost rockets and that the reuse of first stages is a …
Tesla ramping towards 10,000 Model 3 cars every week in 2019
Bloomberg reports Panasonic is adding three battery production lines well before the end of 2018. Tesla expects to increase its output for the vehicle to 10,000 units per week sometime next year and will start offering the $35,000 base Model 3 in a few months. Grohmann Engineering will help Tesla battery module production become three …
Blue Origin BE-4 engine will power mid-2020 ULA Vulcan booster
Following completion of a competitive procurement, ULA has selected Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine for Vulcan Centaur’s booster stage. The liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueled booster will be powered by a pair of BE-4 engines, each producing 550,000 pounds of sea level thrust. As previously announced, ULA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne’s RL10 engine for the Centaur …
SEC is Suing Elon Musk for Fraud
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing Elon Musk for fraud. The SEC complaint alleges that Elon Musk issued “false and misleading” statements and failed to properly notify regulators of material company events. The SEC is seeking to bar Musk from serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company if …
New research for space based Neutral Particle Beam (NPB) system
The US Missile Defense Agency had a request for “Develop the enabling technologies required to field an operational exo-atmospheric Neutral Particle Beam (NPB) system”. Neutral beam accelerator technology was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A prototype neutral hydrogen beam weapon was launched aboard a suborbital sounding rocket from White Sands Missile Range in July …
China’s top provinces passing Portugal in individual income
In 2018, China’s top 3 city-provinces (Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin) are past Portugal on a per capita income exchange rate basis. In purchasing power parity they are at about the level of Spain. Below there is color coding of the projected per capita income. The reddish is for wealthier than Portugal on an exchange rate …
Giant one kilometer Space Bubble telescopes
Devin Crowe gave an update on the NASA NIAC study on one-kilometer space bubble telescopes. The plan is bring liquid and gas and blow a large spherical bubble and then shine a wavelength to solify the material. They would spray part of the bubble with a very thin metal layer to make a reflective telescope. …
3D printing of multiple fuzes to choose how many parts of a bomb explode
The Air Force Research lab is working on conventional explosive bombs with adjustable explosive force. Air Force Research Lab has over $5 billion per year in funding which is more than the $3.5 billion of funding for DARPA. 3D printing will be used to make warheads with multiple built-in fuzes. This method allows the operator …
Carnival of Space 580
1. Universe Today – How to Know Once and For All if the Universe Began With a Bang or a Bounce According to the Big Bang cosmological model, our Universe began 13.8 billion years ago when all the matter and energy in the cosmos began expanding. This period of “cosmic inflation” is believed to be …