China is building its first carrier-borne early-warning plane called the KJ-600. Above is the KJ-600 The KJ-600 would be fitted with an advanced active electronically scanned array, or AESA, radar which could enable it to spot stealth aircraft such as US F-22s and F-35s. The new surveillance plane could also become a command center in …
Chinese researchers have finally successfully cloned a primate, using the same technique Scottish researchers devised to clone the first mammal, Dolly the sheep, in the mid-1990s. Scientists in Shanghai say they’ve produced two cloned macaque monkeys by taking the DNA from the nuclei of fetal monkey cells and putting the genes into monkey eggs that …
Elon Musk reported that all went well with hold down test of the 27 engines of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy. SpaceX will launch the Falcon Heavy in “a week or so.” Falcon Heavy hold-down firing this morning was good. Generated quite a thunderhead of steam. Launching in a week or so. pic.twitter.com/npaqatbNir — Elon Musk …
Bloomberg’s Innovation ranking has the USA falling to 11th place from ninth mainly because of an eight-spot slump in the post-secondary, or tertiary, education-efficiency category, which includes the share of new science and engineering graduates in the labor force. Value-added manufacturing also declined. Improvement in the productivity score couldn’t make up for the lost ground. …
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy hold-down firing could at pad 39A could occur between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. EST (1700-2300 GMT), assuming tomorrow’s countdown and fueling rehearsal goes according to plan according to Space Flight Now. The priority here is a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR). The team goes through the launch countdown, up to 10 …
World View Stratollites offer all the advantages of high-altitude balloons – low-cost, rapid deployability, and low-impact flight – with an innovative new development: the ability to fly a variety of trajectories – from circumnavigating the Earth to persistence over a specific location. Stratollites can maintain position over specific areas of interest for days, weeks, and …
Tesla granted billionaire founder Elon Musk a $2.6 billion stock options. This is the largest option grant of its kind. If fully vested over a decade, the stock options would net Elon as much as $55.8 billion. Along the way, nothing would be guaranteed — zero salary or cash bonuses. Elon Musk’s 2012 grant was …
A new airplane shape for hypersonic planes has been proposed by chinese researchers. Typical hypersonic airplane designs have followed the two wing configurations used in all planes. The lower wing is a common compression surface, while the upper wing is designed according to the idea of HCWs. The upper wing acts like a surfboard riding …
Orbital ATK has entered a new DARPA contract to study the integration of turbine and hypersonic engine technologies into a new aircraft propulsion system under DARPA’s Advanced Full Range Engine (AFRE) program. The AFRE program seeks to develop a new aircraft propulsion system that could operate over the full range of speeds from conventional runway …
U.S. Air Force command that certified Elon Musk’s SpaceX for military missions says it remains confident in the company’s capabilities despite the disappearance this month of a classified satellite it launched. “Based on the data available, our team did not identify any information that would change SpaceX’s Falcon 9 certification status” after “a preliminary review …
Alibaba has developed an artificial intelligence model that scored better than humans in a Stanford University reading and comprehension test. Alibaba asked the AI to provide exact answers to more than 100,000 questions comprising a quiz that’s considered one of the world’s most authoritative machine-reading gauges. The model developed by Alibaba’s Institute of Data Science …