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Drone-launching underwater drone hitches a ride on ship and sub hulls
Humanoid Robots Get "Brains" As Dual-Use Fears Mount
SpaceX Authorized to Increase High Speed Internet Download Speeds 5X Through 2026
Space AI is the Key to the Technological Singularity
Velocitor X-1 eVTOL could be beating the traffic in just a year
Starlink smasher? China claims world's best high-powered microwave weapon
Wood scraps turn 'useless' desert sand into concrete
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The World's First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is A Winter Range Monster
China's CATL 5C Battery Breakthrough will Make Most Combustion Engine Vehicles OBSOLETE
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.
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.
The Truth About Tesla Model 3 Batteries: Part 1
Today we are going to talk about "The Truth about Tesla's Batteries." If you're thinking about a Tesla, you've undoubtedly heard about how cheap they are to fill up, how little maintenance they require, and with recent Model 3 Production ra
25+ year journey to superstrong carbon nanotube bundles
In 1991, Sumio Iijima's discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods and Mintmire, Dunlap, and White's independent prediction that if single-walled carbon nanotubes could be made, then they would
Nick Oberg illustration of the SpaceX BFR
Nick Oberg created a cutaway illustration of the SpaceX BFR.
Our Solar System has 127 probable planets and 500+ possibles
It is estimated that there may be 200 dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt of the outer Solar System and possibly more than 10,000 in the region beyond.
EasyJet and Wright Electric 180 seat electric airline will start flying around 2027
In 2017, Los Angeles startup Wright Electric partnered with budget airline EasyJet to build a 180-seat electric airliner to fly routes of up to 300 miles starting around 2027.
Nine-passenger all electric regional passenger aircraft by 2021
Israeli startup Eviation is making a nine-passenger all-electric regional passenger aircraft by 2021. It will take 9 passengers up to 650 miles at a cruise speed of 240 knots.
Elon has four year old idea for supersonic electric plane and Hypermach continues in stealth mode
On 2014, Nextbigfuture covered Elon Musk describing his belief that an electric supersonic vertical take-off passenger jet could be built.
Experimental glider smashes record for high-altitude flight
"The biggest impression is, it's a long ways down from up here."
15 COOL VEHICLES AND PERSONAL TRANSPORT MACHINES
This mix of cool vehicles are some of the craziest machines you'll ever see. Here is our list of 15 cool vehicles and personal transport machines.
Superlong Tunnels now and in the near future
The Delaware Aqueduct is the longest tunnel that is currently in use. It was completed in 1945 and is 85 miles (135 kilometers) long.
SpaceX Mars and Moon Colonization with titanium alloy bulldozers and materials processing
Craig Davidson gave a talk in 2017 about Improving the SpaceX Mars Colonization Plans.
Robot boat sails into history by finishing Atlantic crossing
All summer, the small boat drifted steadily eastward across the churning North Atlantic until it neared the Irish coast, where it made history by becoming the first unmanned sailboat to cross the Atlantic.
Could the Airfish-8 finally get the Wing In Ground Effect Vehicle up and running?
A Singaporean company has resurrected a post-WW2 German design to commercialize a beautiful reverse-delta ground effect vehicle as a high-speed, high-efficiency ferry for six to eight passengers. The Airfish 8 hovers serenely between two and 23 ft (0
Scientists have invented a way to create 'unlimited renewable energy'...
Scientists have developed a way to transform sunlight into fuel that could lead to an 'unlimited source of renewable energy'.
SpaceX Mars and Moon Colonization with titanium alloy bulldozers and materials processing
Craig Davidson gave a talk in 2017 about Improving the SpaceX Mars Colonization Plans.
Make a moon and Mars capable bulldozer. Replace steel with titanium-aluminum alloy. Use electric battery technology and solar panels.
Superbridge over Gibraltar
Carbon nanotube bundles are becoming a feasible and economically convenient solution for the realization in our time of super bridges, such as those required across the Straits of Bab al Mandab, Messina or Gibraltar (main spans ?2.7, 3.3 or 3.5 km,
Reaction Pre-cooled Engines could deliver reusable hypersonic planes by 2025
They have proven an innovative pre-cooling system which does not require the development of new materials to handle the heat of hypersonic flight speeds.
Airship POLICE CARS: Autonomous drones the future of emergency services
AUTONOMOUS airships are set to revolutionise policing, a cutting-edge company has claimed.
Pictures and Video of the SpaceX Crew Dragon
SpaceX revealed the SpaceX crew dragon which four NASA astronauts will ride into orbit in 2019.
Two test flights must go well and then the SpaceX crew dragon will be certified for manned flights for NASA.
US plans to build and man a Lunar Gateway Platform by 2024
VP Pence announced the plan to put a manned crew on a Lunar Gateway Platform by 2024.