Alan Boyle
Contributing Editor at GeekWire
Mastermind of @CosmicLog. Contributing editor at @GeekWire. Host of @Fi_Sci_Club podcast. Main account on Threads: https://t.co/hByUWGTihz
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1 week ago |
geekwire.com | Alan Boyle
Seattle-based Interlune provided a triple-barreled update today on its progress toward mining helium-3 on the moon and returning that resource to Earth. The startup joined Vermeer Corp., an industrial equipment manufacturer headquartered in Iowa, to unveil a full-scale prototype of an excavator that’s designed to ingest 100 metric tons of moon dirt in an hour. After the helium-3 is extracted, the machine would drop the rest of the dirt back onto the lunar surface in a continuous motion.
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1 week ago |
geekwire.com | Alan Boyle
Several days after the launch of the first full-scale satellites in Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation, the mission team is still on an adrenaline high, according to the team’s leader. “It’s early in the mission and we still have lots of work ahead,” Rajeev Badyal, Amazon’s vice president of technology and head of Project Kuiper, said today in a LinkedIn post. “It’s been an entirely nominal start though, and that’s all thanks to the talent, passion and dedication of the Kuiper team.
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2 weeks ago |
geekwire.com | Alan Boyle
Seven years after they started, neuroscientists have published the results of a landmark study that was designed to determine which theory of human consciousness came closest to the mark — and those results are decidedly mixed. The bad news is that neither of the leading theories held a clear advantage in explaining how consciousness arises. The good news is that researchers picked up new clues about where to look.
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2 weeks ago |
geekwire.com | Alan Boyle
Seattle-based Radian Aerospace says it’s developing a reusable re-entry vehicle that can be used to test aerospace components under stressful conditions and then bring them back down to Earth. The Radian Reusable Re-entry Vehicle, or R3V, is meant to advance technologies that the company is building into Radian One, its single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane.
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2 weeks ago |
geekwire.com | Alan Boyle
A powerful rocket sent the first batch of 27 satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband internet network into low Earth orbit today, marking a milestone in the company’s multibillion-dollar bid to catch up with SpaceX’s Starlink constellation. Today’s liftoff came nearly three weeks after the first attempt was scrubbed due to weather concerns.
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RT @NASA: Everybody, wave! @Firefly_Space’s Blue Ghost lunar lander caught Earth on video as the lander continued its journey to the Moon.…
.@amazon ships @ProjectKuiper satellites to Florida in preparation for milestone launch https://t.co/UXOuvV6haZ
