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As of 2017, the US has an estimated 4,018 nuclear weapons in either deployment or storage. The US plans to spend $1.2 trillion to modernize the nuclear arsenal over the next 30 years. Two-thirds of the nuclear weapons budget will …

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is qualified to launch NASA’s most expensive and highest-priority science missions. NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has certified the two-stage Falcon 9 as a Category 3 rocket. Falcon 9 Block 5, the rocket’s newest iteration that …

The SpaceX Mini-BFR for the Falcon 9 will only be used for testing and will not become a fully reusable second stage for the F9 or FH. If SpaceX makes the F9 upper stage more reusable. Elon has said they …

SpaceX Starlink will provide the lowest latency and high 100 Gigabit per second connections. Light travels 45% faster in vacuum versus fiber optic cable. Lasers for Starlink satellites will enable fast low latency connections. The top ten financial cities could …

SpaceX has US Federal Communications Committee (FCC) approval to build a constellation of 4,425 low Earth orbit communication satellites. It will use phased array antennas for up and downlinks and laser communication between satellites to provide global low-latency high bandwidth …

Harvard researchers have a paper which proposes that 2017 interstellar object Oumuamua was an alien solar sail. Speed, acceleration and other reasons to think it is an alien solar sail The reasons for this are: 1. It came in at …

The Falcon Heavy launched Starman has made its first pass beyond Mars. It has gone into an orbit where it will fly around the Earth and around Mars for millions of years. The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched the Tesla Roadster …