Boeing and NASA are targeting 2:53 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, July 30, for the launch of Starliner’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2, or OFT-2, mission to the International Space Station pending range approval. The updated launch target is supported by the space station visiting vehicle schedule and availability of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V …
The National Transportation Safety Board issued Monday the preliminary report for its ongoing investigation of the fatal, April 17, 2021, crash of a 2019 Tesla Model S near Spring, Texas. Human Driver in Crash Footage from the owner’s home security cameras show the owner entering the driver’s seat and the passenger entering the front passenger …
University of Science and Technology of China claims to have made a 62 qubit using programmable superconductors. Science – Quantum walks on a programmable two-dimensional 62-qubit superconducting processor Abstract Quantum walks are the quantum mechanical analog of classical random walks and an extremely powerful tool in quantum simulations, quantum search algorithms, and even for universal …
China population is 1.41 billion according to the report of its 2020 census. The National Bureau of Statistics reported 12 million births in 2020 which was an 18% drop from the 14.65 million in 2019. China’s population is almost flat from 2010. There was only a 72 million increase over 10 years from 1.34 billion. …
Tesmanian reports Tesla has begun expanding the tent where the Model Y General Assembly is located in Fremont. Another tent will be built on the other side of the Model 3 assembly line, hinting at a significant expansion in the manufacturer’s capacity. Two production lines tents in Fremont are producing 500,000 Model 3/Ys per year. …
Space settlement is becoming a mainstream topic because SpaceX is making space colonization economical and practical. The Falcon 9 has already significantly lowered the launch cost and is increasing what can be taken into space. The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will be fully reusable. This could lower costs by 3-20 times from current costs per …
Canaccord Genuity reports that Tesla Megapack will be using LFP cathode batteries. LFP batteries are cheaper but less energy dense than lithium ion batteries with nickel. Megapack is Tesla’s largest battery storage product and has a maximum energy capacity of 3 MWh per unit. The new Megapack is design optimized for quick installations, and its …
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology present a new approach to imaging evanescent waves that allows, among other things, tackling this challenge with the help of “nonlinear wave-mixing,” a combination of two or more light beams that generate a new electromagnetic wave of a different color. At least one of the light beams must be …
Researchers demonstrate an on-chip, optoelectronic device capable of sampling arbitrary, low-energy, near-infrared waveforms under ambient conditions with sub-optical-cycle resolution. The detector uses field-driven photoemission from resonant nanoantennas to create attosecond electron bursts that probe the electric field of weak optical waveforms. Using these devices, they sampled the electric fields of ~5 fJ (6.4 MV m−1), few-cycle, near-infrared waveforms …
Colonial Pipeline has had a cyberattack involving ransomeware from an Eastern European-based criminal gang called DarkSide. Colonial Pipeline has temporarily shutdown 2.5 million barrels per day of pipelines. This is about 12-15% of US oil capacity. On May 7, the Colonial Pipeline Company learned it was the victim of a cybersecurity attack. We have since …
There could be two more SpaceX Starship test flights in May. SN16 could fly and SN15 could be flown again. Elon Musk tweeted that SN15 might refly soon. SN11 was flown about 22 days after SN10. SN15 was flown 27 days after SN11. This cadence means that both SN16 and SN15 could have flights in …