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☆ Tom Mueller worked for Elon Musk at SpaceX for almost 20 years: 'I learned never to tell him no'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"We watched like maybe one play, because we were so engaged in talking about building a launch vehicle," Mueller told Isaacson. Musk agreed, but Isaacson writes that this meant Musk considered "Mueller an employee, rather than a cofounder, of SpaceX." "You cannot ask for two years of salary in escrow and consider yourself a cofounder" Musk told Isaacson. Elon Musk with a SpaceX rocket in March 2004 in El Segundo, Los Angeles. "I am very proud of what we have achieved at SpaceX," Mueller told the University of Idaho in 2018.

Persons: Tom Mueller, Elon Musk, Mueller, Musk, Elon Musk's, Walter Isaacson, here's, Los Angeles Mueller, Isaacson, who'd, Chris Thompson, Musk Mueller, There's, Elon, Paul Harris, It's, Mueller's, Peter Thiel Organizations: SpaceX, Service, University of Idaho, TRW, Reaction Research Society, PayPal, Ebay, Super, Exploration Technologies Corporation, Merlin, Pathfinder Locations: Idaho, Wall, Silicon, Los Angeles, Canada, Saint Maries, El Segundo , Los Angeles

☆ Redwire and Sierra team up to make drugs in space on inflatable habitat’s first mission
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Michael Sheetz | In Michaeljsheetz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

An ADSEP with blue PIL-BOXs, hardware which will be delivered to Sierra Space for the LIFE habitat pathfinder mission. Space infrastructure company Redwire is putting a biotech technology test bed on Sierra Space's first mission with its inflatable space habitat, establishing a new partnership between the two companies to make drugs in orbit. "It's an incredible moment for Redwire, an incredible moment for Sierra," Mike Gold, Redwire's chief growth officer, told CNBC. Redwire is not alone in targeting that market, with startups like Varda and Space Forge also working on such test beds. The idea is to manufacture drugs in space, leveraging the environment to create unique materials, that would be returned for use on Earth.

Persons: Mike Gold, Varda Organizations: Space, LIFE, pathfinder, CNBC, Space Forge Locations: Space's, Space

☆ Mars is rotating more quickly, NASA mission finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Mars is rotating more quickly than it used to, according to data that NASA’s InSight lander collected on the red planet. Initially, the InSight mission, the first to study the interior of Mars, was supposed to last about two years after it landed in November 2018. The InSight mission continued to collect data about Mars until the very end, falling silent in December 2022 after dust blocked its solar panels from receiving sunlight. Researchers then used RISE to measure the wobble of Mars as the core sloshes around inside it. This new figure was compared with previous estimates of the core’s radius that were collected by tracking seismic waves as they traveled through Mars’ interior.

Persons: CNN —, Viking landers, ”, Sebastien Le Maistre, Mars, “, Bruce Banerdt, “ I’ve Organizations: CNN, NASA, JPL, Caltech, Pathfinder, Space, Space Network, Royal Observatory of, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Locations: Royal Observatory of Belgium, Pasadena , California

☆ NASA taps Blue Origin to join SpaceX in building lunar landers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Blue Origin will develop its lunar lander alongside partners Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, Astrobotic and Honeybee Robotics. Altogether, the price tag for Blue Origin’s lunar lander development program is likely worth more than $7 billion. Blue Origin has been fighting for a role in the Artemis lunar lander contracts — called Human Landing System — for years. A judge ultimately ruled against Blue Origin, though NASA later pledged to expand the number of companies with lunar lander contracts to two. NASA said from the beginning that it hoped to have more than one company working to develop lunar landers capable of carrying humans.

☆ A new generation of airships is taking to the skies
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It’s an airship, and French aeronautics company Flying Whales hopes its hybrid-electric, helium-lift vessel will change the shape of sustainable transport. Flying Whales' airships, pictured here in a render, could access remote locations without roads, railways or airports. That’s why most companies, including Flying Whales and LTA Research, are using helium, which is non-flammable. Prentice is also the founder and president of BASI, a Manitoba-based company specializing in airships adapted for cold climates. Flying Whales expects to test its first airship at the end of 2025, with commercial operations beginning in 2027 once the airship is certified.

Persons: ”, Romain Schlack, Sergey Brin, It’s, Barry Prentice, Prentice, “, Schlack Organizations: CNN, Flying Whales, ” Airship, Research, Google, LTA Research, Moffett, American Chemical Society, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Prentice ., FAA, European Aviation Safety Agency, Libre de Bruxelles, Prentice, Companies, Akron Airdock, Vehicles, Air Vehicles Locations: San Francisco, California, Manitoba, Prentice . California, Belgium, Laruscade, Bordeaux, France, Ohio, San Francisco Bay, England, Quebec, Asia, Canada

☆ Nissans recalled steering wheel logo can fly off on a crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Nissan is recalling more than 400,000 older SUV, van and pickup models in the United States because the Nissan badge on the steering wheel can break apart or detach when the airbag inflates. Vehicle airbags inflate with explosive force in a crash, and, in some of these vehicles, the round Nissan logo or pieces from it can become dangerous projectiles. The issue is thought to exist on just 0.3% of the recalled vehicles. The logo emblem, which is on the front of the steering wheel horn button, is part of an airbag assembly produced by Nissan supplier Autoliv, which used badges from a second supplier that was not fully identified. People with models that may be involved are being asked to visit NHTSA.gov to see if their vehicle is among those being recalled.

☆ Nissan and Hitachi look to charge elevators with EV batteries
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] 2023 Nissan Pathfinder is unveiled at the 2022 New York International Auto Show, in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., April 13, 2022. In what appears to be an early attempt in earthquake-prone Japan to make wider use of EV batteries, Nissan and Hitachi Building Systems Co Ltd are focused on keeping elevators running when the power supply is disrupted. The V2X system uses the CHAdeMO charging standard supported by Nissan, an Hitachi Building Systems executive said. That allows it to also draw power from larger Nissan EVs, such as the Ariya and Leaf models. Tatsunori Takahashi, a director in the domestic business management division of Hitachi Building Systems, said he hopes the firm will start providing the system to apartment buildings from the financial year starting in April.

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☆ Girl, 13, leads Nebraska troopers on 100 mph chase with boy, 11, in passenger seat, state police say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

A 13-year-old girl led Nebraska troopers on a high-speed chase for nearly 20 minutes before authorities were able to stop the vehicle and take her and an 11-year-old passenger into custody, Nebraska State Patrol said. The teen driver allegedly accelerated and fled troopers "at a high rate of speed," according to the release. "A short time later, the trooper was able to successfully perform a tactical vehicle intervention to bring the vehicle to a stop," Nebraska State Patrol said. Troopers searched the vehicle and located a firearm and a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to the news release. Nebraska State Patrol did not release further details, including whether the girl and boy will face charges.

☆ There's no GPS on the moon. NASA and ESA have to fix that before humans return in 2 years.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Space agencies are working to put satellite navigation, or satnav, on rockets traveling the 239,000 miles between Earth and the moon. That means that most of the satellites' signal is blocked and only a little spills over. They were 116,300 miles away — about halfway to the moon, Ventura-Traveset said. So the plan is to give the moon its very own fleet of communication and navigation satellites, called the Moonlight initiative. Moon settlers will need high-speed internetSatellites could help future moon astronauts navigate on the moon, as can be seen in this artist's impression.

The first full-color image released from the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope is the sharpest infrared image of the distant universe ever produced, according to NASA. Space Telescope Science Institut / NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERONASA released the first batch of images from the tennis court-sized observatory to much fanfare in July. The exoplanet HIP 65426 b in different bands of infrared light, as seen from the James Webb Space Telescope. Back to the moonFifty years after the final Apollo moon mission, NASA took key steps toward returning astronauts to the lunar surface. Chinese officials have also said they intend to use the space station for space tourism and commercial space initiatives.

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☆ Jeff Bezos' leadership style propelled him to become one of the richest men in the world. Here's what you can learn from it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Former CEO Jeff Bezos, who stepped down in late 2021, led with a slogan of step ferociously. After he predicted that ecommerce was about to take off, Bezos founded Amazon as an online book retailer in 1994. According to the man himself, the value that "surprises people" is Amazon's fourth leadership principle: "are right, a lot." "No PowerPoints are used inside of Amazon," Bezos has said. Bezos ran elements of Amazon like a startup, such as being notoriously frugal when it came to company expenses.

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☆ Russian security teams are scrambling to hunt down Ukrainian spies as locals in captured towns direct fire and gather critical intel
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Behind enemy lines, Ukrainian civilians are helping their country target Russian positions. In Kherson, local activists used Telegram to send photos and coordinates for Russian troops. In occupied Kherson, a man who performed at weddings before the war said he had pivoted to planting explosives under Russian soldiers' vehicles. Ukrainian forces can act on the intel in under 15 minutes, putting fire on Russian positions. Russian forces have felt the effects, and these everyday spies are becoming a priority for Russia.

☆ Larry Page, Sergey Brin Post-Google Lives: Investments, Yachts, Islands
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Hugh Langley | Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +33 min

Even before their retirement from Google, Page and Brin relied heavily on their respective family offices to bring order to their worlds. The Bay Area headquarters of Koop, Larry Page's family office, is nondescript and gives little indication of the billionaire's empire. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show less Bayshore Global Management, Sergey Brin's family office, is based in Palo Alto and has a bit more of a public face. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show lessThe difference in styles holds true for Brin's family office, Bayshore Global Management. The CEO of Page's family office is Wayne Osborne, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church who attended Princeton Theological Seminary.

☆ Viking 1 may have landed at site of ancient Martian megatsunami
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The mystery of the Viking landing site has long puzzled scientists, who believe an ocean once existed there. Now, new research suggests that the lander touched down where a Martian megatsunami deposited materials 3.4 billion years ago, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports. The interest in the potential for life on the red planet prompted scientists to select its northern equatorial region, Chryse Planitia, as the first Martian landing site for Viking I. “The landing site selection needed to fulfill a critical requirement — the presence of extensive evidence of former surface water. Next, the team wants to investigate Pohl crater as a potential landing site for a future rover, since the location might contain evidence of ancient life.

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☆ Top Arizona election official refers more cases of potential voter intimidation to law enforcement
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is The Evening Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has referred six reports of possible voter intimidation to law enforcement in the past week, as well as an allegation of harassment of an election worker, her office said Monday. The cases were referred to the state attorney general’s office and the U.S. Justice Department for further investigation. Early voting got underway Oct. 12 in the battleground state, where Hobbs is the Democratic nominee for governor. Hobbs’ office said it also referred a report of election worker harassment to law enforcement Saturday. The case is being pursued by the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force, which was launched in June 2021.

☆ Nissan takes $687 million loss as it sells Russian business for 1 euro
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Japanese company will transfer its shares in Nissan Manufacturing Russia LLC to state-owned NAMI, it said. The deal will give Nissan the right to buy back the business within six years, Russia's industry and trade ministry said. The sale to NAMI will include Nissan's production and research facilities in St Petersburg as well as its sales and marketing center in Moscow, the ministry said. Nissan said it expected an extraordinary loss of around 100 billion yen ($687 million), but maintained its earnings forecast for the financial year ending in March. The Nissan deal was "of great significance for the industry," Russia's Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said in a statement.

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▼ + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( Tessa Campbell | Personal Finance Reviews Fellow | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

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