Aviation demand is driven by economic activity, and a growing U.S. and world economy is the basis for aviation to grow over the long run. The 2020 FAA forecast calls for U.S. carrier domestic passenger growth over the next 20 years to average 2.0 percent per year. System traffic in revenue passenger miles (RPMs) is …
Starlink will change the angle to cover 500-kilometer diameter spots from 1000 kilometer diameter spots. This will increase the download bandwidth from 100 mbps to 300 mbps. The second-generation Starlink will use a tighter beam and the ka band. It will be several years for the second generation Starlink to be deployed. The first 12000 …
Tesla is expanding facilities in Fremont and increasing production. They adding 64,000 square feet to a 120,000 square foot tent structure and making it a permanent building. Land purchases in 2013 and 2016 added a total of 60 acres. The expansion of the tent area is relatively minor. However, merging the Model S/X production line …
Starlink has opened preorders for service expected to be available in the second half of 2021. Elon Musk expects Starlink to achieve 16ms to 19ms by the summer of 2021. SpaceX will reach 10 gigabits per second download speeds eventually. For $499, Starlink users get a terminal package to communicate with the constellation. Beta participants …
D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today published a milestone study in collaboration with scientists at Google, demonstrating a computational performance advantage, increasing with both simulation size and problem hardness, to over 3 million times that of corresponding classical methods. Notably, this work was achieved on a practical application …
TheAME Academy is the first ever seminar on Additive Manufacturing of Electronics with leading industry experts. This online event will cover the future of additive manufacturing, software, hardware and automation for electronic devices. Attendees will hear first-hand about revolutionary applications and advancements of this technology from R&D to commercial applications by leading research institutes and …
NASA press conference on the Mars Perserverence. SOURCES- NASA Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, …
US GDP at the end of 2020 is estimated at $21.48 trillion and China (with Hong Kong and Macua) is estimated at $16.03 trillion. China reported 2020 GDP at 101.6 trillion yuan. The USD to Chinese Yuan exchange rate is 6.46. China’s GDP is US$15.73 Trillion. If Hong Kong and Macau GDP is added, then …
Researchers describe creating powerful, unipolar electrochemical yarn muscles that contract more when driven faster, thereby solving important problems that have limited the applications for these muscles. This polymer coating converts the normal bipolar actuation of carbon nanotube yarns to unipolar actuation, where the muscle actuates in one direction over the entire stability range of the …
Canada’s nominal GDP is $1.80 trillion. Canada’s dollar converts to a US dollar at C$1.26 to $1 USD. The Canadian dollar was at C$1.45 to $1 USD in March 2020. The Canadian dollar was at C$1.31 to C$1.35 to $1 USD through much of 2019. The Canadian dollar has strengthened by 7-8% over where it …
Globally, there has been a lot of money printed to fight COVID and stimulate economies. The total US currency in circulation soared to $2.07 trillion by the end of 2020, according to Federal Reserve data. This was 11.6% gain from 2019 and was the biggest one-year percentage increase since 1945, as the nation was coming …