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Chinese researchers have developed a sodium-metal battery that can fully charge in just 4 minutes...
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 in 3 Days - Thursday July 13
Chinese Scientists Develop Nuclear Battery Using Carbon-14
Teleoperated humanoid robots complete first-ever live surgery
Floating capsule auto-disinfects water without chemicals or battery
Modular Reactors To Solve Data Center Hysteria?
DeepSeek Developing In-House AI Chip In Bid To Cut Nvidia Reliance
America just took three brand-new nuclear reactors critical in thirty days, a first for any...
Your brain doesn't peak in your 20s after all: Study reveals your mind is at its sharpest betwee
Compasses, not maps: China is building a different type of AI
Transportation
The Crown has claimed regulatory control of every means of conveyance, stifling the free travel of individuals and their property. This is an intolerable act. Superior transportation technologies already exist, but are suppressed by regulations.
Innovative Single-Person Spacecraft Design Passes Leak Test (Exclusive)
A spacecraft designed to eventually replace many spacewalking astronaut activities passed two key pressure tests in September, representatives from the company building the spacecraft told Space.com in an exclusive interview.
Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic will be in space for test flights 'in weeks not months'
"We should be in space within weeks, not months. And then we will be in space with myself in months and not years," the Virgin founder and CEO told CNBC's Nancy's Hungerford in Singapore Tuesday.
The serial entrepreneur, who owns the commerc
Going Up? Waiting for the Space Elevator
Space-elevator tech, a longtime sci-fi staple, is about to get a test here in the real world.
Self-driving trucks will cut logistics costs in half and boost GDP
The digitization and automation of processes and delivery vehicles will reduce logistics costs for standardized transport by 47% by 2030, according to a new report from PwC's Strategy and consultancy.
Plans for Regional Hydrogen-Electric Passenger Aircraft
HES Energy Systems revealed its plans for Element One, the world's first regional hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft. They have been developing hydrogen propulsion systems for drones for the last 12 years.
Plans for Regional Hydrogen-Electric Passenger Aircraft
HES Energy Systems revealed its plans for Element One, the world's first regional hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft.
NASA announces SpaceX crewed flight June 2019
NASA has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019.
Blue Origin lunar mission in 2023 and Lockheed pitches NASA a Lunar Lander Concept
Lockheed Martin revealed a giant crewed lunar lander concept and showed how the reusable lander aligns with NASA's lunar Gateway and future Mars missions.
DHL Parcelcopter takes to Tanzanian skies
When we last heard about courier company DHL's Parcelcopter delivery drone, it had been delivering medication to a remote island village and a mountaintop community, both in Germany. Now, the most recent version of the aircraft has just completed a p
Japanese spacecraft drops robot onto asteroid to hunt for the origin of the solar system
'A land full of wonder, mystery and danger! I landed on asteroid Ryugu!'
Hyperloop passenger pod that could one day hit 760mph revealed...
Hyperloop passenger pod that could one day hit 760mph revealed ahead of first trials in Spain next year
Moon Express raises $12.5 million and targets 2020 for moon mission
Moon Express is planning to send new robotic explorers to the Moon starting in 2020. Moon Express had participated in the Google Lunar Xprize.
Propellantless space propulsion workshop
Marc Millis summarized the presentations at a Sept 10 to 14 workshop on propellantless propulsion in Estes Park Colorado.
Boeing and Rolls-Royce back British hypersonic spaceplane venture
Hypersonic travel, and maybe even a new type of orbital launcher, has come closer to reality after Boeing and Rolls-Royce today announced substantial investments in the British advanced propulsion systems company Reaction Engines Limited (REL).
Dream Chaser spaceplane successfully completes glide flight and landing
Four years ago, the Dream Chaser's first glide and landing test ended in a crash after its landing gear failed to deploy correctly. Since then, the reusable spaceplane has undergone a complete refurbishment and finally achieved its first successful f
Scaled Completes First Flight of Experimental Aircraft, Model 401
Scaled Composites is proud to announce the rollout and first flight of its most recent project, experimental aircraft Model 401.
Bill Ford Hints At Future Pure Electric Ford F-150
Hmm … will it truly come to be? Perhaps, but it won't be this Rivian electric truck disguised as an F-150.
Mazda Flips Rotary Engine, Shrinks It Down For Range Extender
The compact, single-rotor engine sounds exactly like revived rotary that a Mazda exec is teasing.
Ford Unveils Wild F-Vision Electric Semi Truck
Ford hints at a Tesla Semi contender
Pulsed fission fusion rocket for 37 days to Mars and other missions
The pulsed fission fusion propulsion (PuFF) system envisions using a pulsed z-pinch to compress a fission-fusion target.
2 mega-amps would be sent through a uranium-deuterium-tritium target.
The uranium would fission first and then it would trigg
Panasonic To Speed Up New Battery Production Line Installs At Gigafactory
Gigafactory production capacity to hit 35 GWh annually this year.
Dear Moon
In 2023, artists representing the Earth will head for the Moon.
Princeton Satellite plan to generate pulses of net power fusion within 7 years
Princeton Satellite system is creating a direct drive fusion propulsion and power systems for a phase II NASA NIAC study.
Positron Antimatter catalyzed fusion propulsion
We can produce very little antimatter and what we make is very difficult to store. These have been huge obstacles that have made antimatter propulsion many trillions of times beyond technological capabilities
Japan has launched a miniature space elevator
If successful, STARS-Me could pave the way from science fiction to reality
Japanese mini-rovers send back their first images as they hop around an asteroid
Two mini-rovers have sent their first pictures back from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, a day after they were dropped off by Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft.
'We will get regular body upgrades': what will humans look like in 100 years?
Mechanical exoskeletons, bionic limbs, uploadable brains: six experts' visions of 2118
Venturing To The South Pole In An Electric Car Powered By The Sun
Effort aims to spur environmental action
Japan places two rovers on an asteroid
Japan's asteroid mission Hayabusa2 has successfully dropped the first two rovers to the surface of its target space rock Ryugu. Hayabusa2 dropped to a lowest altitude of just 55 meters from the surface and released twin rovers, called MINERVA-II 1A
DARPA funds developing Quantized Inertia into breakthrough space propulsion
DARPA is giving $1.3 million for a four-year study of quantized inertia (QI) for possible breakthrough space propulsion.
World's first ocean-going solar yacht could cruise indefinitely – if you take it slow
It's quick, it's quiet, and it's covered in 300 square meters (3,229 sq ft) of solar panels.
Lunar railgun for super-cheap Mars missions and Giant Mars open atmosphere lasers
A magnetic railgun that is only ten meters long can launch from the moon to Mars. It can have less than half the speed of the US Navy railgun. It only needs 3 kilometers per second versus 7 kilometers per second.
Long-term colonization of the solar system with 290,000 square feet per person
A 5 km settlement radius corresponds roughly to the sweet design spot where earthlike radiation shielding is produced for free by the required structural mass. The paper is by Pekka Janhunen.
Mars-Moon Lava Tube habitation simulation in Iceland
Mike Dunn talked about the use of lava tubes for the Moon and Mars habitats. Mike has worked on The Mars Lava Tube Pressurization Project's (MLTPP).
New SpaceX BFR pictures shows updated design
Elon Musk tweeted out new SpaceX BFR pictures with an updated design. There are three fins now on the upper half spaceship.
670-mph hyperloop from Ohio to Chicago moves closer with new regulations
An exceptionally fast transportation system may be a step closer to Ohio.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) and German insurance company Munich Re said Monday that a set of core safety requirements and certification guidelines fo
Japanese online fashion billionaire, 42, will be the FIRST tourist on SpaceX's BFR flight ...
around the MOON (but Elon Musk refuses to say exactly how much he has paid)...A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket for an approximately seven-day trip around the Moo
Existing technology to mine water and ice on Mars
Kris Zacny, Mining Water on Mars.
Drilling and mining on the moon
Honeybee Robotics has two projects for near-term lunar ISRU-focused missions.
Public Lecture #4 - Lunar Prospecting and Mining by Kris Zacny (Honeybee Robotics)
This presentation will detail two projects currently under development at Honeybee Robotics for near term lunar ISRU-focused missions. The first project involves development of a sampling drill for volatile-rich lunar regolith as part of NASA's Lunar
SpaceX Big Falcon SpaceShip has a new design with three larger fins
SpaceX has shown a new rendering of the SpaceX BFR spaceship with three large mini-wings (fins). There is now a dark heat shield along the belly.
Robotic bumble bee sized drones will explore Mars by flying with flapping insect like wings
Marsbees are robotic flapping wing flyers of a bumblebee size with cicada sized wings. The Marsbees are integrated with sensors and wireless communication devices.
Russia will have giant Wing in Ground Effect Seaplanes patrolling the Arctic
The Soviet Navy built about thirty 125 ton Orlyonok-class ekranoplans and they were deployed mainly in the Black Sea and Baltic Sea fleets. They were used from 1979 to 1992. There was also a few 400-ton Lun-class ekranoplan was built as a missile la
SpaceX BFR will allow people to work & live in space, hardest parts of engine development are done
The new SpaceX BFR schedule is for short hop testing late next year and full orbital launches in 2021.
Boring Company Gets Approval To Build Tunnel In Residential Garage
And The Boring Company's saga continues.
Solid State Battery Firm Solid Power Raises $20 Million
Solid Power promises all solid-state batteries (ASSB).
Established in 2012, Solid Power from Louisville, Colorado that develops all-solid-state batteries (ASSB) has closed $20 million in a Series A investment round.
Electric air taxi prototype makes flight debut
Vertical Aerospace operating out of Bristol, UK, aims to bring on demand, emissions-free intercity air taxi services to the UK skies within four years. The company has nailed the first step in its bold plan by building and flying a fully electric ver
China Tibetan magnetic rocket launcher will look like Huangdicun Airbase test launcher
China has been claiming it will adapt its aircraft carrier electromagnetic launch systems as rocket range extenders for systems placed on high plateaus in Tibet.
Tesla Battery Biz Booming, Mostly From Tesla Energy
Despite increasing negativity about Tesla Energy, business is growing at an alarming rate.
Kreisel Introduces 2-Speed Auto Trans For Electric Cars
2-speed transmission in an electric car is a rare sight.