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Blue Origin auctions New Shepard ride with Jeff Bezos for $28 million

Posted on June 13, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

Blue Origin’s month-long sale for an excursion to the edge of room with its very rich person author Jeff Bezos finished on Saturday with an end cost of $28 million. The trip on board New Shepard, scheduled for July twentieth,…

The Hoover Dam reservoir is at an all-time low

Posted on June 10, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

Lake Mead, the supply made by the Hoover Dam, that feeds water to 25 million individuals across Western states, is verifiably low. On June ninth, the water level plunged to 1,071.57 feet above ocean level, barely beating a record low…

Say goodbye to the Keystone XL pipeline, for real this time

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

It’s official: the Keystone XL is going away for good. The pipeline’s developer announced Wednesday that it’s terminating the project. For years, the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have gone back and forth on allowing the massive transcontinental project to…

SpaceX’s Starlink is in talks with ‘several’ airlines for in-flight Wi-Fi

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

The group behind SpaceX’s developing satellite web network Starlink is in chats with “a few” aircrafts to radiate web to their planes, the undertaking’s VP said during a meeting board on Wednesday. Growing Starlink from rustic homes and onto aircrafts…

The US wants to fix its broken lithium battery supply chain

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

The US declared designs to work out a homegrown store network for lithium batteries, which are basic for electric vehicles and environmentally friendly power. Its new objective is to have the option to do almost everything — from mining to…

NASA’s Juno probe will get close to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede on Monday

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

On Monday NASA’s Juno space probe, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, will get a close-up look at Jupiter’s biggest moon Ganymede, the agency said in a press release. It will be the closest NASA has gotten to the…

NASA To Kick Off Squid Uprising With Latest SpaceX Payload To The ISS

Posted on June 4, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

The 22nd SpaceX payload resupply mission will be conveyed to the International Space Station this month and, among the materials for the different trials NASA is dealing with, there will be 128 child Bobtail Squid that are only the cutest…

All-new Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo craft set for launch Thursday

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

In what’s become an extraordinariness for SpaceX and its workhorse armada of “flight-demonstrated” equipment, a fresh out of the box new Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon payload case are planned to dispatch Thursday on a NASA-contracted trip to convey in…

New Zealand latest nation to sign space agreement with NASA

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

New Zealand announced Tuesday it was the latest country to sign a space agreement with NASA, just as New Zealand’s nascent space industry begins to take off. New Zealand became the eleventh signatory to the Artemis Accords, a blueprint for…

Newer methods may boost gene therapy’s use for more diseases

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

Jordan Janz knew his gamble on an experimental gene therapy for his rare disease might be paying off when he returned to work and a friend sniffed him. “He said, ‘you have a normal smell, you smell good,’” Janz recalled.…