XCOR Aerospace gets another $5 million in funding
Updated: 2012-02-29 17:18:04
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 29, 2012 XCOR Aerospace gets another 5 million in funding XCOR Aerospace announced today that it recently closed a 5 million round of equity funding . The round , combined with cash on hand plus anticipated and existing contracts , should fund the company through production of its Lynx Mark I Suborbital . vehicle The financing included participation of new and previous investors . Among them are Esther Dyson , Pete Ricketts co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and several top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and former venture . capitalists We have chosen to announce this wonderful news at the Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference here in Silicon Valley because we believe the future of commercial space access will be
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William Clay “Bill” Ford Jr., the executive chairman of Ford Motor Company and great grandson of Henry Ford has an eye on the forthcoming gridlock problem, already an existing problem for some – with the answer cars must talk to each other and to the road. “If we do nothing, we face the prospect of ‘global [...]
, skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 28, 2012 Apple Valuation , cash and revenue breakdown Apple ended the day just short of 500 billion . Apple is at 499.20 . billion Seekingalpha had a transcript of the January 24, 2012 Apple first quarter earnings call Apple cash for short-term and long-term marketable securities totaled 97.6 billion at the end of the December quarter compared to 81.6 billion at the end of September quarter , a sequential increase of 16 billion . About 64 billion of the cash was offshore at the end of the December . quarter We expect revenue to be about 32.5 billion , compared to 24.7 billion in the March quarter last year . We expect gross margin to be about 42 reflecting approximately 60 million related to stock-based compensation
Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India em Português Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review March April 2012 Subscribe now The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2012 Our annual list of the companies that are shaping the paths technologies are . taking Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 83 Years Ago Blogs Video Computer Simulation Predicts New Allotrope Of Carbon The new material matches the properties of a puzzling new form of carbon found in high pressure experiments kfc 02 29 2012 The various different forms of carbon include diamond , graphite , graphene a single sheet of graphite
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 28, 2012 MIT researchers develop a new approach to producing three-dimensional microchips MIT Microelectromechanical systems , or MEMS , are small devices with huge potential . Typically made of components less than 100 microns in size the diameter of a human hair they have been used as tiny biological sensors , accelerometers , gyroscopes and actuators . Now researchers at MIT have come up with a new approach to MEMS design that enables engineers to design 3-D configurations , using existing fabrication processes with this approach , the researchers built a MEMS device that enables 3-D sensing on a single chip . The silicon device , not much larger than Abraham Lincoln’s ear on a U.S . penny , contains microscopic
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 28, 2012 SpaceX Dragon and Falcon 9 Assembly Now Complete for Late March or Early April Launch Universe Today Today SpaceX today released an image of the fully assembled Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket inside their facility at Cape . Canaveral This means the first test launch of a commercially built spacecraft to the International Space Station is just a bit closer . In a press conference earlier this month , NASA’s Mike Suffredini said SpaceX’s launch would be no earlier than March 20. There are no big problems being worked but a lot of little things to wrap up , 8221 he said . I wouldn’t hold my breath , as it is a challenging date , but I would guess we’ll fly within a couple of weeks of that date . We’ll hold
, skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 28, 2012 Levelized Current and Future Costs of Nuclear , Solar and Fossil Fuels There is a lengthy analysis at solar cell central of how projected costs of solar power could get to the range of costs for coal and natural . gas Nextbigfuture has looked at detailed comparisons of energy costs many . times In South Korea and China with 5 financing costs , nuclear power can get down to a price of 29-32 per MWh or 2.9 to 3.2 cents per . KWh China , India , and other countries with high GDP growth and development are where the vast majority of new power is being built . For solar or any new power to displace an established power plant then the cost would have be below the operating . costs Coal and natural gas can get to
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 28, 2012 IBM Lengthens Quantum Coherence and speeds Quantum calculations Scientists at IBM Research ibmresearch have achieved major advances in quantum computing device performance that may accelerate the realization of a practical , full-scale quantum . computer For specific applications , quantum computing , which exploits the underlying quantum mechanical behavior of matter , has the potential to deliver computational power that is unrivaled by any supercomputer . today Using a variety of techniques in the IBM labs , scientists have established three new records for reducing errors in elementary computations and retaining the integrity of quantum mechanical properties in quantum bits qubits the basic units that
Start-up called Envia Systems says it’s built a lithium-ion battery prototype at 400 Wh/kg. That, if the prototype can scale would be both a new world record, but a deep change in electric vehicle economics. The world record looks secure for now, the battery prototype has third party tests confirming the energy density at the [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 27, 2012 Battery News Roundup 1. A record energy density of 400Wh kg in Li-ion rechargeable batteries has been achieved by . Envia Envia has a 40 Ah pouch cell , the new system could lower Li-ion cell costs to 180 kWh , according to Sujeet Kumar , Co-founder , President CTO , with further reductions to come . The cells feature active materials with high specific capacity : a 300 mAh g cathode and nano Si-C composite anode with a capacity of 1600 mAh g . Kumar said that the results have been verified by ARPA-E at an independent cell test facility . 2. China is targeting the development of high efficiency , high-capacity over 150 mAh g half the Envia system long life over 2000 cycles high safety performance cathode
Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India em Português Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review March April 2012 Subscribe now The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2012 Our annual list of the companies that are shaping the paths technologies are . taking Letters and Comments From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 83 Years Ago Blogs Video Mini : sequencer The MinION from Oxford Nanopore plugs into a computer like a USB memory stick . The single-use sequencer will be on the market for under 900 sometime this year . Oxford Nanopore Biomedicine Why a Portable DNA Device Could Yield Better Data Oxford Nanopore's
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 27, 2012 Technology Review hopes for significant new solar technology for 52 cents per watt but China Tier 2 PV Modules already at 80 to 96 cents per watt MIT Technology Review identifies early-stage technologies that , if employed together , could reduce the cost of making solar panels to 52 cents per . watt At 52 cents per watt , assuming similar cost reductions for installation and equipment such as inverters , solar power would cost six cents per kilowatt-hour in sunny areas of the U.S . 8212 less than the average cost of electricity in the U.S . today . Solar power in sunny areas now costs roughly 15 cents per . kilowatt-hour This is the same kind of thinking that caused the Solyndra loan default . Solyndra was
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 27, 2012 Startram could usher in era of low-cost space travel Next Big Future has covered the Startram concept in detail before The GEN 1 concept involves using long , evacuated tunnels to accelerate unmanned payloads to orbital velocity . In theory , this concept could bring launch costs to LEO down to 50 dollar per kilogram . A more ambitious GEN 1.5 system could would take longer and greater resources to develop but could also put humans into orbit for a similar per-kilogram cost . In an interview with Sander Olson , Startram visionary James Powell discusses why he believes that the concept is viable , and how it could be developed within twenty years for 40 billion . James Powell Question 1 : How did the Startram
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 27, 2012 Apple close to 500 billion valuation and on the way to a Trillion Apple ended the last quarter of 2011 with a net income of 13.1 billion . Apple now has a valuation of about 490 . billion The company sold 37 million iPhones in the period ended Dec . 31, with customers snapping up the new 4S model that went on sale in . October Seeking Alpha analysts expect the company to grow at an annual rate of 20 over the next 5 . years S P Equity Research predicts that Apple will increase its earnings at an annual rate of 34 over the next 3 years . Apple is expected to be trading at 1,200 a share 3 years in the future . Assuming 950 million shares outstanding , the company is projected to have a market capitalization of
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 27, 2012 100,000 Nomad planets per star would not be that helpful for interstellar colonization Our galaxy may be awash in homeless planets , wandering through space instead of orbiting a . star There may be 100,000 times more nomad planets in the Milky Way than stars , according to a new study by researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology KIPAC a joint institute of Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator . Laboratory If the planets were evenly distributed over a cubic light year then there would be one Pluto or larger size planet every 2200 astronomical units or one for every cubic two light week . volume This situation would not be like islands in the Pacific Ocean for
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 27, 2012 Nokia announces 41 megapixel cameraphone for zooming without losing resolution and for oversampling EEtimes Nokia announces a 41 megapixel cameraphone Nokia's new 808 PureView , with a jaw-dropping 41 Megapixel sensor . It's expected to start shipping in May with a hefty retail price of USD$585. 450 euros PC Mag has pictures and details of the Nokia Pureviwe 808 What can you do with 38 megapixels You can zoom and crop . I took a shot of the Nokia booth and then zoomed in on a tiny little element , cropping it into what appeared to be a tidy image of 5 megapixels or so . That's the equivalent of a 3x lossless zoom at 5 megapixels , Nokia said . The camera has an f 2.4 aperture , which isn't as bright as HTC's
With EEStor out of sight and supposedly over, new research with very striking potential is coming. North Carolina State University researchers led by physicist Dr. Vivek Ranjan have discovered the means by which a polymer known as PVDF enables capacitors to store and release large amounts of energy quickly. Understanding leads to exploitation. Ranjan previously [...]
Development of Low-Power Wireless LSI with World’s Fastest Data Transfer Rate
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 25, 2012 Carnival of Nuclear Energy 93 1. Idaho Samizdat Small modular reactor vendors seek investors and customers . First they have to prove they can build one . This report , the 2nd in a series , looks at opportunities to develop prototypes at the Department of Energy's Savannah River . site 2. Science and Technology at Newsok has an article about Uranium . Enrichment When carrying out uranium enrichment , there are many safety aspects unique to the radiological process which are present in addition to the expected industrial hazards of a factory setting . This includes the radioactive decay emissions of the uranium and its decay products . When uranium atoms undergo radioactive decay , they emit both gamma and
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 25, 2012 Carnival of Space 238 1. Cosmic Log at MSNBC NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory gets a great look at a partial solar eclipse from outer space , which serves as a preview for the sights we'll see on Earth later this . year 2. Cosmic Log at MSNBC Geologists see signs that seismic shocks as powerful as magnitude-7 quakes on Earth have rumbled on the Red Planet recently , and such marsquakes could be a good thing for the search for life on . Mars 3. Cosmic Log at MSNBC A rocket experiment samples the stuff of the northern lights , adding some scientific substance to the great auroral views we've been getting from Earth and . space 4. The Merdiani Journal 35 years later , the Wow signal still tantalizes blog
Wireless battery charging and remote control via a Bluetooth-based smart-phone app gives this robot toy its appeal.
Development of Two New Modules for Digital Signage Market
Industry’s Smallest TransferJet Compatible wireless Device by MURATA
Development of “Low Torque Sealed Deep Groove Ball Bearing” for Electric Vehicle
Release of Two Probe Stations for Scanning Probe Microscope
Launch of a New Wire-Cut Electrical Discharge Machines for High-Accuracy Processing by Mitsubishi Electric
Al Fin led Thursday with a post on CoolPlanet Energy along with GreenCarCongress all seeming to be based from a press release handled at BusinessWire. The points for this post are a look at the investors and the biofuel technology. Big Oil is very interested with some serious money now loaded into CoolPlanet. At the [...]
3M and Chesapeake Energy Corporation have announced they’ve agreed to collaborate in designing, manufacturing and marketing a broad portfolio of compressed natural gas (CNG) tanks for use in all sectors of the U.S. transport market. CNG has often been suggested to be a good replacement for gasoline. It is; its simpler to get to proper [...]
Launch of Super Compact LTE Base Station by NEC
This is way too cool to overlook. Atsushi Takano at Nikkei Monozukuri magazine reported in Tech-On that IHI Corp of Japan has developed a compact gas turbine generator unit. The gas turbine and generator set is so small it fits in a suitcase. All by itself, running on propane the unit autonomously generates electricity. IHI [...]
Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes (metal-based ionic liquids or MetILs) that could lead to new flow batteries able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s batteries. To start, a flow battery or accurately a Redox Flow Battery (RFB) is a type of rechargeable electrochemical system that relies [...]
Development of World’s Smallest Micro DC-DC Converter by Murata
Development of High-Accuracy Inkjet Printhead for Printed Electronics