According to SpaceX, the BFR will generate 11.8 million pounds of thrust and be able to carry a 150-ton payload. That far surpasses any rocket now in production, outstripping even the promised capabilities of NASA’s enormous Space Launch System, or SLS. (The names of the two rockets speak volumes about […]
Daily Archives: February 9, 2018
Tesla’s Model 3 production troubles are, at this point, well documented. While the carmaker’s CEO Elon Musk maintains that the ramp up is imminent, it would be easy to dismiss that as bravado for shareholder’s sake. On the Tesla Q4 earnings call on Wednesday, Musk mentioned that the first production […]
WASHINGTON — As the administration prepares to release a fiscal year 2019 budget proposal that may call for ending International Space Station operations in the mid-2020s, advocates for the station in Congress and industry are making the case for keeping the station operating well beyond that. The budget proposal, scheduled […]
Guedes broke on to the scene at Benfica in 2014 and was linked with moves to a host of European big boys off the back of a string of impressive performances. Last January PSG convinced the Portuguese giants to sell as they splashed out around £26m (€30m) to take him […]
After a slight delay, Apple’s HomePod is here. The Siri-touting speaker began arriving at customers’ homes and on store shelves on Friday. Now Playing: Watch this: Apple’s HomePod brings the bass, Siri voice control 2:36 Once you get home, you need to set up the speaker before it’s time to […]
Asteroid 2018 CB is estimated to be between 15 to 40m long and will fly close to Earth at 5.30pm EST (10.30pm GMT) on Friday. It will pass within 39,000 miles (63,000 km) of Earth, which is less than one-fifth of the distance of the moon. The giant rock was […]
Americans aren’t just abusing prescription opioid painkillers — they’re taking too much of the over-the-counter stuff as well. Nearly one in five users of popular headache remedies like Advil or Aleve admitted exceeding the recommended daily maximum dose during a one-week period, according to a new study led by a […]
With Alvaro Morata sidelined with a troubling back injury, Chelsea new boy Olivier Giroud could be the man to help the Blues bounce back from their shocking defeat to Watford. The Frenchman is set to get his home debut against West Brom on Monday evening and the FPL Scout is […]