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NASA prepares to collect asteroid samples next week in deep space OSIRIS-REx mission

October 15, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated Comments Off

NASA currently has an orbiter circling the asteroid Bennu about 200 million miles from Earth, and a live streamed attempt to collect a sample from its surface will be made next week. The mission, OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer), was developed to help improve our understanding of asteroid impact risks and study […]

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SpaceX, Elon Musk to headline HBO biopic series by Channing Tatum production company

October 14, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated Comments Off

HBO is developing a biopic-style show focused on the achievements of Elon Musk and SpaceX, specifically highlighting the company’s successful mission which launched and landed NASA astronauts this year. The limited series, produced by Channing Tatum’s Free Association, will be based on Ashlee Vance’s 2017 biography of Musk titled, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the […]

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SpaceX partners with US military to study using rockets for worldwide cargo delivery

October 13, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated, Uncategorized Comments Off

SpaceX has partnered with the U.S. Military to study joint cargo transportation efforts using the private spaceflight company’s Starship rockets. The cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA), also featuring Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc), is a voluntary effort wherein the participants donate time and resources to help develop “use cases” involving their technology. If successfully completed […]

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SpaceX’s Elon Musk entertains ‘Flag of Mars’ featuring Falcon 9

October 9, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated Comments Off

SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk have their sights set on taking humans to Mars in the near future, and much of that involves fairly traditional engineering challenges like rocket fuels, engines, and payload capacities. However, the creativity and fun that’s been fused into the mission by the commercial space company definitely makes it stand […]

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Tesla owner, ACLU win injunction against DMV in ‘offensive’ vanity plate dispute

October 6, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated Comments Off

A Tesla Model 3 owner won a preliminary injunction on Friday against the Rhode Island DMV in a dispute involving the use of a vanity plate displaying the message “FKGAS.” In response to an anonymous complaint earlier this year, the agency belatedly determined the messaging was offensive and that the plate must be returned. However, […]

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NASA adorns Artemis Moon rocket with vintage worm logo after SpaceX flight debut

October 4, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated Comments Off

NASA’s famous worm logo will accompany astronauts on their way to the Moon under the agency’s Artemis program. The vintage design, introduced in 1975 but retired in 1992, was first returned for SpaceX’s Demo-2 astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this year, and now the logo will grace another historic return for the […]

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Tesla owners warned tires and rims are high-value theft targets: LAPD

October 2, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated Comments Off

Tesla owners in the Los Angeles area are being warned by local police of an uptick in theft targeting the all-electric vehicles’ tires and rims. The Pacific Division of LAPD recently posted a photo on their official Twitter account displaying a Model 3 on blocks with those specific parts removed. As a precaution, Tesla owners […]

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Tesla Model 3 ‘fuel’ and maintenance savings revealed by police department

October 1, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated Comments Off

The decision to use a Tesla Model 3 as an official patrol vehicle for Bargersville Police Department in Indiana has proven to be a financial boon over the last 13 months it’s been in use. In a matchup against a Dodge Charger in their inventory, the all-electric sedan cost $6755 less in “fuel” and maintenance […]

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Mars study reveals subsurface water in Red Planet’s vast lake system

September 30, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated Comments Off

Researchers working with data from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter have detected four subsurface lakes at the planet’s south pole. In a follow up to the 2018 discovery of a large body of water about 1.5 kilometers beneath the surface, three more water bodies were found in the same region spanning about 75,000 […]

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Tesla’s Elon Musk strikes diplomatic note on climate change, oil and gas in podcast interview

September 29, 2020 Dacia J. Ferris Syndicated Comments Off

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been outspoken on many issues over the years, and as the leader of the most successful electric car company in the world, it’s not surprising when his comments are aimed at skeptics of climate change and promoters of oil and gas industry expansions. That said, Musk is also quite aware […]

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