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May 17, 2022
EchoStar says Jupiter-3 won’t be ready for 2022 launch
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: satellites
At 9.2 tons, it may be the largest spacecraft to ever launch to geostationary orbit.
SpaceX will launch the heaviest commercial geostationary satellite ever aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket early next year, following several delays.
Earlier this month, SpaceX customer EchoStar announced satellite builder Maxar Technologies had delayed the delivery of the much-anticipated Jupiter-3, which had been scheduled to launch near the end of the year.
May 17, 2022
The Stunning New ‘Air Yacht’ Is a Catamaran That Floats to the Skies
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: solar power, sustainability
But it comes with an extra-long keel. Sailing through the seas is full of adventures, but you miss 29 percent of the world when you’re on a yacht.
The Air Yacht uses solar energy as an extra power source thanks to two solar-powered blimps instead of traditional parallel hulls.
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May 17, 2022
Elon Musk says Twitter deal ‘can’t move forward’ without correct bot numbers
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI
May 17, 2022
Potentially Alive 830-Million-Year-Old Organisms Found Trapped in Ancient Rock
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
An incredible discovery has just revealed a potential new source for understanding life on ancient Earth.
A team of geologists has just discovered tiny remnants of prokaryotic and algal life – trapped inside crystals of halite dating back to 830 million years ago.
Halite is sodium chloride, also known as rock salt, and the discovery suggests that this natural mineral could be a previously untapped resource for studying ancient saltwater environments.
May 17, 2022
Google Maps to add ‘immersive view’
Posted by Future Timeline in categories: mapping, satellites
Google Maps to add “immersive view”
Google Maps, the world’s most-downloaded travel app, will soon become more immersive and intuitive thanks to a major upgrade.
The online tool is used by over 1 billion people every month. It already includes satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning. At its annual I/O developer conference held in California, Google announced key features being added to further enhance its appearance and functionality.
May 17, 2022
Israel to test ‘AI floating sun-tracking system’ to make clean energy
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: finance, robotics/AI
Finance Ministry + Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) to test AI floating system that generates electricity by tracking the sun.
May 17, 2022
Tesla is rumored to be near a deal for battery venture in Indonesia after new round of talks, Musk meeting the president
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, government, sustainability, transportation
Tesla is again rumored to be near a deal for a major new battery venture in Indonesia after a new round of talks with officials and even CEO Elon Musk meeting with the Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
It’s not the first time that talks of Tesla making a major investment in Indonesia have emerged.
In 2020, we reported on Tesla allegedly being in talks with the Indonesian government to build a new nickel venture in the country, which has a strong nickel reserve.
May 17, 2022
Chien-Shiung Wu’s work defied the laws of physics
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: physics
Though her experiments defied long-held laws about symmetry in the physical world, Wu was not regarded as a peer of those whose work she enabled.
May 17, 2022
Physicists Found a Way to Trigger The Strange Glow of Warp Speed Acceleration
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cosmology, physics
Every time you take a step, space itself glows with a soft warmth.
Called the Fulling–Davies–Unruh effect (or sometimes just Unruh effect if you’re pushed for time), this eerie glow of radiation emerging from the vacuum is akin to the mysterious Hawking radiation that’s thought to surround black holes.
Only in this case, it’s the product of acceleration rather than gravity.