The Jupiter moon Europa is one of the best possibles places for life in the solar system outside of the Earth. It has a deep liquid ocean under 10 kilometers of ice. Europa has more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. The Jupiter moon Europa is inside harsh radiation fields surrounding Jupiter. Even …
Airbus is developing and building JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) spacecraft for the European Space Agency, which will study Jupiter and its icy moons. In May 2022, JUICE will begin a 7.6 year cruise to Jupiter to spend three and a half years in the Jovian system. Its main mission will be to explore the …
In 2018, Blue Origin paid consultants to tell them how to copy the success of SpaceX. Ars Technica reviewed the consultant’s advice and findings about rapid iterative testing and how motivated SpaceX employees were. There were other comments about customer focus and focus on achieving low cost. However, the main Blue Origin problems were no …
The Tesla Model Y Performance has been tested at 3.6-second to go 0 to 60 mph and does the quarter-mile in 12.1 seconds at 113 mph. Tesla lowest-performing Model 3 and Model take about 5.1 to 5.3 seconds to go 0 to 60. The top-performing Model S are ahead of the Bugatti and other million …
China power problems are affecting 20 out of China’s 34 provinces. Cement production has been reduced by 29% and aluminum production capacity has been reduced 7%. Heavy industry has seen the most cutbacks. Coal prices are up but China’s utilities have energy price controls. There were quotas on coal mining. Coal mining quotas have been …
In the third quarter, we produced approximately 238,000 vehicles and delivered over 241,000 vehicles. This was above the analyst estimates of 220k-230k. This puts Tesla’s year to date production at Production Deliveries 2020 510,187 499,647 Q1 180,338 184,877 Q2 206,421 201,304 Q3 237,823 241,300 YTD 623,582 627,481 Tesla China production and the early ramp of …
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it is reviewing allegations about safety issues at Blue Origin after a former employee and 20 anonymous staff raised concerns in a critical essay published at this link. Blue Origin’s former head of employee communications Alexandra Abrams and 20 other current employees accuse Jeff Bezos and his space …
China’s Vice Premier Han Zheng had ordered all power utilities to make sure they have enough supplies of raw materials, including coal and oil, for the security of power supply during the cold season—whatever it took. China has already had rolling blackouts for consumers and retailers and outages for factories. Oil prices could surpass $80 …
Goldman Sachs cut its China’s economy growth estimate to 7.8% in 2021 from its old forecast of 8.2%. S&P Global Ratings also lowered its 2021 GDP forecast for China, and said uncertainty in the Chinese economy will affect growth prospects across Asia-Pacific. Japanese bank Nomura cut its China’s GDP growth estimate by 7.7% this year, …
The Chip Shortage is cutting the total new cars made in 2021 by about 9%. It is reducing global car production from 88 million to 80 million cars in 2021. North America production is expected to be 15.5 million instead of 16.5 million. Here is a summary of production losses by car company. Semiconductor factory …