Elon Musk isn’t the only super rich fella with a private space company successfully launching and landing rockets. Blue Origin and its founder Jeff Bezos recently conducted its eighth test flight of its New Shepherd rocket, which included launching and landing the booster rocket, in addition to its crew capsule shortly after. This is a […]
Read MoreThe world’s largest plane, the Stratolaunch, is lumbering toward its first flight. The plane, a 500,000-lb. beast, recently completed a runway test in anticipation of its debut flight, which is planned for some time this summer. This massive plane is 238 ft. long and 50 ft. tall. It features six high-bypass-ratio turbofan engines used by the […]
Read MoreThe flatpack Ox vehicle is a new slab-sided creation capable of bringing mobility to the developing world, but now it’s one step closer to reality thanks to a partnership with Shell. A pre-production prototype of the Ox will be created and then sent to India to assist in outreach programs, where the vehicle will be gauged […]
Read MoreNASA’s TESS spacecraft was successfully launched Wednesday by SpaceX, the first satellite designed to attempt to look deep into the cosmos. Roughly the size of a refrigerator, TESS is NASA’s latest exoplanet hunter and will be tasked with exploring stars tens to hundreds of light-years from Earth. The successful launch from SpaceX via its Falcon […]
Read MoreHyperloop Transportation Technologies has been kind of M.I.A. for around a year now, ever since the California company announced it was building the world’s first full-scale, passenger-ready hyperloop. It took a while but it now appears HyperloopTT’s vision is becoming a reality. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies not only revealed it was currently constructing a kilometer-long test […]
Read MoreAs a result of a disagreement between the Defense Department and manufacturer Lockheed Martin over who should be the one to fix an F-35 production issue which occurred last year, the Pentagon has suspended acceptance of most F-35 deliveries. “While all work in our factories remains active, the F-35 Joint Program Office has temporarily suspended accepting aircraft […]
Read MoreVolvo has announced the brand new FL Electric, the company’s first all-electric commercial truck, which will be utilized for urban distribution and waste management. The FL Electric trucks will be outfitted with between two and six 100–300kWh lithium-ion batteries, good for a range of approximately 186 miles. The ability for the vehicles to charge in a […]
Read MoreWater is one of the most basic needs of life, yet billions of people around the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. Although major shortages occur in developing nations, developed countries also face unanticipated water shortages, especially after natural disasters that can disrupt supplies without warning. But in a recent tech breakthrough, a […]
Read MoreEvery now and then, NASA gives us the pleasure of releasing footage of their test dummies crashing a whole bunch of things. Recently, NASA’s Langley Research Center published another video of their test dummies crashing airplanes and other neat space vehicles for safety research. By outfitting the dummies with sensors and other various instruments, researchers […]
Read MoreManufacturing rocket fuel can be quite dangerous as it involves the mixing of a bunch of potentially volatile materials. In an effort to make the process a bit safer, engineers from Chuo University and Japan’s national aerospace agency (JAXA) have developed what is being described as a ‘puking robot’ to safely mix solid rocket fuel. […]
Read MoreThe “Super Test-Drive Center” is a new initiative from Alibaba and Ford which allows free three-day test drives for people with credit scores of 700 or better utilizing the Tmall app. Located in Guangzhou, China, the car vending machine gives users the ability to select a model, put down a deposit, take a selfie, and […]
Read MoreNumerous advances in solar cells have made them very efficient. But they’re still pretty much useless in rainy weather. In a big breakthrough, a team of Chinese engineers has created a new hybrid solar panel that can generate energy even from raindrops. Now solar panels can harvest energy from the movement of raindrops on its […]
Read MoreThe self-driving car industry has come under a bit of fire recently in the wake of a fatal crash in the US involving an autonomous Uber vehicle and a pedestrian. However, Chinese search giant has to decided to proceed with its testing after receiving approval to run trial runs of its autonomous cars in some […]
Read MoreBy shimin [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons Xi Jinping has big plans to further develop China into a global superpower, with the aviation industry being an important focus. Last year, the Chinese company Comac introduced its C919, designed to be a Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 competitor, however the country will still […]
Read MoreA team of University of Tokyo students have developed something that’s a bit tough to even describe but perhaps hover backpack gets the job done? The non-functioning prototype, called Lunativity, is described as a backpack multi-rotor for jump augmentation. Essentially, as you can see in the video below, it helps give off the feeling you […]
Read MoreTesla’s Supercharger network is expanding across the country but not without a cost. The company has quietly raised prices per kilowatt hour for using the fast-charging stations at an average increase for pay-per-use customers ranging from approximately 20 to 40 percent, according to Electrek. The price has actually doubled from 12 cents to 24 cents in Oregon […]
Read MoreOne thing we know is that The Boring Company is anything but boring. The brainchild of Elon Musk, The Boring Company has received a bit of backlash recently from public transit advocates who may or may not quite understand what the company is looking to do. In order to quell some of the criticism, Musk […]
Read MoreNew smart HD quality headlights from Mercedes are comprised of more than one million pixels and are able to control where and how much light is thrown in front of a vehicle. Previously, the headlamps were merely a concept but now Daimler has announced the futuristic headlights will be included on a limited quantity of […]
Read MoreStratolaunch is prepping for its maiden flight next year, taking baby steps along the way. Here we are in March and while it still hasn’t taken to the skies, the world’s largest airplane is certainly coming along. In a new video, the Stratolaunch can be seen taxiing down a runway at 46 miles per hour, impressive […]
Read MoreA team of researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia has developed a device to generate electricity from the Earth by turning excess infrared radiation and waste heat through quantum tunneling. Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon that occurs when particles move through a barrier that should be impossible to move through, […]
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