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Elon Musk @elonmusk SpaceX might exceed 90% of all Earth payload to orbit later this year. Once Starship is launching at high rate, probably >99%. Has to be or we can’t build a city on Mars or base on moon. We file almost no patents, so nothing stopping competition from copying us. https://x.com/elo...

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1792629142141177890

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Starship Flight 4 in about 2 weeks.

Primary goal is getting through max reentry heating.

Worth noting that no one has ever succeeded in creating a fully reusable heat shield. Shuttle required >6 months of rework.

Early Results from the HUMDRUM Survey: A Small, Earth-mass Planet Orbits TOI-1450A
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10400

NASA Steps in to Get ESA's ExoMars Rover to the Red Planet NASA will provide launch services and some key lander components. By Ryan Whitwam May 20, 2024 The European Space Agency's long-delayed ExoMars mission is back on track with a little help from NASA. The US space agency has signed an agreemen...

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1792536841725661392

Starlink is now live across the 300+ islands in the Republic of Fiji, marking the 99th country, territory or market around the world where Starlink’s high-speed internet service is available → http://

Electronics engineers successfully integrate MoS₂ transistors on a 200 mm wafer https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-electronics-successfully-mos-transistors-mm.html by Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore Radar charts of the ca In recent years, electronics engineers have been trying to design increasingly ...

Researchers realize multiphoton electron emission with non-classical light https://phys.org/news/2024-05-multiphoton-electron-emission-classical.html by Ingrid Fadelli , Phys.org Strong field quantum optics is a rapidly emerging research topic, which merges elements of non-linear photoemission roote...

Record low Antarctic sea ice 'extremely unlikely' without climate change, says scientists https://phys.org/news/2024-05-antarctic-sea-ice-extremely-climate.html by British Antarctic Survey Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have found that the record-low levels of sea ice around Antarc...

Blue Origin flies thrill seekers to space, including oldest astronaut https://phys.org/news/2024-05-blue-flies-thrill-seekers-space-1.html by Issam AHMED Blue Origin saw its first crewed launch since a rocket mishap in 2022 left rival Virgin Galactic as the sole operator in the fledgling suborbital ...

TMSC Announces Low-Power N4e Node, Says It's Boosting Specialty Nodes by 50% The company is redoubling its efforts on nodes other than its main moneymakers. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/tmsc-announces-low-power-n4e-node-says-its-boosting-specialty-nodes-by TSMC held its European Technology...