The four contracts for the Space Launch System rocket’s booster and engine were initially projected to cost $7 billion over a span of 14 years, but are now projected to cost at least $13.1 billion over nearly 25 years. (from the NASA Inspector General Paul Martin published by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) on …
NASA and Boeing reviewed the Starliner and determined that are still emerging issues that need a path to closure prior to a decision to fuel the spacecraft in June. The chair of a NASA safety panel urged the agency not to rush into a crewed test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner vehicle, calling for an …
Elon says SpaceX Starship with improved Raptor 3 engines should lift 300 tons in expendable mode which should mean mean 180 tons in reusable mode. The International Space Station weighs about 420 tons and took about fifty space shuttle launches to build. The Starship upper stage has more volume than the International Space Station. A …
Ford will use Tesla’s network of 12000 superchargers starting in 2024 and Ford is now committed to using Tesla’s charging interface. Tesla and Ford might partner on more aspects in the future. A Tesla-developed adapter will provide drivers of Ford EVs fitted with a Combined Charging System (CCS) port access to Tesla’s V3 Superchargers, according …
In 2022, Ukraine flew Turkish made Bayraktar TB2 drones near Russia Black Sea flagship the Moskva. The drones had been effective against Russian armored vehicles and artillery. They distracted radar operators and then the Moskva was hit and sunk by Neptune missiles. The review of images following the strike of the two Neptune anti-ship missiles …
Japanese companies have invested $80 million in British startup Core Power to develop a floating nuclear power plant. About 13 companies, including Onomichi Dockyard and Imabari Shipbuilding, have invested. Core Power has raised about $100 million. CORE POWER is part of the team that develops an MSR (molten salt reactor) that does not need a …
The full-scale replica of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) MARVEL microreactor has been moved to a facility in Pennsylvania where it will be used to test the behavior of sodium-potassium and lead-bismuth coolants. The Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) sodium-potassium-cooled microreactor will generate 100 kW and is expected to begin operation at …
DARPA is trying to use new more powerful superconducting magnets to triple the efficiency of a Magnetohydrodynamic drive for ultra-quiet navy ships. The PUMP program will develop an electrode material system solution for an efficient and reliable magnetohydrodynamic drive. The program will have multiple components to achieve this goal, including a modeling and simulation design …
Superconducting fluxonium qubits provide a promising alternative to transmons on the path toward large-scale superconductor-based quantum computing due to their better coherence and larger anharmonicity. A major challenge for multi-qubit fluxonium devices is the experimental demonstration of a scalable crosstalk-free multi-qubit architecture with high-fidelity single-qubit and two-qubit gates, single-shot readout, and state initialization. Researchers present …
Nvidia’s huge financial performance for the quarter and strong guidance is boosting AMD, Microsoft and Tesla in the afterhours. I think though the performance of AI will be data limited. You can only boil down and condense the available human knowledge. But moving toward optimal performance will improve things. It will be like having pocket …
Nvidia is making huge profits and has huge growth leading the AI revolution. Nvidia had a great quarter by beating on revenue and profit estimates. Nvidia also gave strong guidance for the rest of the year. Nvidia is almost a trillion dollar company. The 25% after hours move in price increases company value from $755 …