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Full scale mach 5.5 cruising Sabre engine on track for 2019
The Reaction Engines team are expanding in staff and activities to complete the SABRE demonstrator programme, with delivery on track for 2019. The company has relocated to larger premises on Culham...
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China exporting another Nuclear reactor To Argentina and Japan is edging to...
1. China and Argentina have agreed to cooperate on the construction of a Chinese-designed Hualong One reactor in the South American country.The agreement aims for the signing of a framework contract...
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China's $4 trillion Seedfunding for Global Infrastructure Buildout
China will be leveraging its $4 trillion in reserves to provide low interest financing for high speed rail, export of Chinese nuclear reactors, factories and property development.China is offering to...
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NASA Emdrive experiments have force measurements while the device is in a...
The Eagleworks team obtained EMDrive experimental force measurements in the torsional pendulum in a hard vacuum (~5.0x10^-6 Torr).Paul March included their last null-thrust test that ran the RF amp at...
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Prototype Railgun firing Mach 7 shots has been installed on a Military...
The Navy has installed their prototype railgun on a 1500 ton military catamaran called the joint high speed vessel aka JHSV. Lance M. Bacon reports this development at the Navy Times and Sam LaGrone at...
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Spacex launch with a little over 4 hours left in the count down
The Spacex Falcon 9 went vertical early this morning in advance of tonight’s launch of the DSCOVR satellite. Liftoff is targeted for 6:10pm EST – live launch webcast will begin at 5:50pm EST. The Deep...
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Elon Musk tweeted on the space elevator, electric rockets and railguns
And pls don't ask me about space elevators until someone at least builds a carbon nanotube structure longer than a footbridge— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 26, 2015Earth based Space elevators would be...
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The Quadrillion dollar world would be a world with complete Infrastructure
China is leveraging its $4 trillion in reserves to provide low interest financing for high speed rail, export of Chinese nuclear reactors, factories and property development.China is offering to fill...
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US Dept of Energy Helping Canada and China to create Molten Salt Reactors
Mark Halper reports at Fortune that DOE (US Dept of Energy) plans to sign a 10-year collaboration agreement with China to help that country build at least one molten-salt nuclear reactor within the...
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More intelligence genes found that will lead to effective embryo selection
Molecular Psychiatry - Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortiumGeneral cognitive function is...
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Thirty year Roadmap for Navy power systems to support railguns and lasers
The US Navy has a roadmap to align electrical power system developments with warfighter needs and enable capability based budgeting. It is meant to be a living document, updated biannually, that...
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Advanced additive manufacturing could enable planes that are 50% more fuel...
Pratt and Whitney is exploring making airplane engines with fewer parts using additive manufacturing (aka advanced 3D printing). Those parts would need less assembly and be cheaper to make. Frank...
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US Navy 30 year ship plans include an aircraft carrier every five years
The US Navy has a 30 year shipbuilding plan and there are Department of Defense (DoD) and Navy guidance documents.In the near-term planning period, available platforms are limited to existing ships,...
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Google's Boston Dynamics shows off Robot Dog Spot in Video
Spot is a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. Spot has a sensor head that helps it navigate and negotiate rough terrain....
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NASA NIAC - Tethers Unlimited Asteroid Wrangler
Robert Hoyt, Tethers Unlimited - WRANGLER: Capture and De-Spin of Asteroids and Space Debris • Vytas SunSpiral, NASA ARC - Super Ball Bot - Structures for Planetary Landing and Exploration (@ 33:03...
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NASA NIAC Spiderfab Status update on the way to making kilometer scale...
Robert Hoyt, Tethers Unlimited - SpiderFab: Architecture for On-Orbit Construction of Kilometer-Scale Apertures Two things are the most exciting for near term transformation of space...
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Pentagonal graphene should be stronger than graphene
Jon Evans at Chemistry World reports that scientists in China have proposed the existence of a novel 2D allotrope of carbon made up of pentagons, which they have dubbed ‘penta-graphene’. Like graphene,...
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Spacex successfully deploys DSCVER satellite and soft lands vertically into...
Spacex successfully launched the DSCOVR satellite and sent it into a parking orbit. The satellite was successfully deployed.Waves were to high for the drone ship, but the first stage successfully soft...
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Elon Musk suggests that Tesla could reach current Apple level market cap of...
Elon Musk said Tesla’s revenue this year could grow to $6 billion, from $3.2 billion in 2014. Elon predicted the 2025 market-cap of Tesla would reach $700 billion, IF 50 percent annual revenue growth...
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Interesting Plausibility that Elon Musk Could Become a Trillionaire with a...
Some have called the Elon Musk comment that Tesla Motors could reach $700 billion in market valuation by 2025 with 50% per year annual revenue growth.Achieving anywhere close to becoming a trillionaire...
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