On the Tesla earnings calls, Elon Musk announced they will make a Texas Gigafactory. They have started construction this past weekend. It will be built on a 2000 acre property on the Colorado river and five minutes from the Austin Airport. The property is the largest property owned by Tesla. Tesla will still consider Tulsa …
Tesla had $104 million in GAAP profit for the second quarter. They generated positive free cash flow of $418M. They have met all qualifying criteria for SP500 inclusion. There needs to be a meeting and actual approval by the SP500 inclusion committee before Tesla is added. Tesla had $368M in GAAP profit for the last …
Elon Musk has tweeted that SpaceX will Attempt the 150 Meter Starship prototype hop later this week. Will attempt to fly later this week — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 21, 2020 There was also a video where SpaceX caught both fairing halves for the first time. Videos of yesterday’s catch of both fairing halves pic.twitter.com/yzTDFzlulL …
China plans to build at least six aircraft battle groups by 2035. China will have two aircraft carrier groups for each area (Yellow Sea, East and South China seas). China has developed the insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) chip which enables high-efficiency electric energy conversion systems for electromagnetic aircraft launchers. China refit a used aircraft carrier …
QC Ware, a leader in enterprise software and services for quantum computing, announced a breakthrough in quantum machine learning (QML) that increases QML accuracy and speeds up the industry timeline for practical QML applications on near-term quantum computers. They have achieved a speedup of about 100 times. Nextbigfuture interviewed Yianni Gamvros, Head of Product and …
Apart from co-founding Wryst, Brian is the creator of the science blog Nextbigfuture with 4 million readers per year. In this post, it’s all about the relevance of hygiene solutions by answering the question: which PPE and hygienic products are in use and will be relevant in the future?
NASA is targeting a July 30 launch for its Perserverance Mars mission. The Mars rover Perseverance was stacked atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on July 7. The Mars Perseverance rover will drill and collect core samples of the most promising rocks and soils and set them aside in a “cache” on the …
China Tianwen-1 spacecraft is ready to launch on a Long March 5. It could launch on July 23, 2020. China’s national strategy set Mars as the next target for planetary exploration after successful lunar mission. China’s first Mars mission is named Tianwen-1, and aims to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission. The Tianwen-1 …
SpaceX successfully launched the ANASIS-II mission on Monday, July 20 using a Falcon 9’s. The primary launch window opens at 5:00 p.m. EDT, or 21:00 UTC. The ANASIS-II is a South Korean military communications satellite. Falcon 9’s first stage previously launched Crew Dragon to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug …
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have made an optical mirror using only a few hundred identical atoms. They used a new metamaterial made of a single structured layer. few hundred identical atoms. Interfering laser beams hold two layers of atoms in arrays. This has come from an emerging new field …
Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have a cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery that reduces the costs of producing batteries while boosting performance in some ways. They have a new class of cathode that uses 89% nickel. Cathodes can make up roughly half of the materials costs for …