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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter, has announced the launch of his new artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAI, today. Musk, who was once part of the AI research nonprofit OpenAI, is now stepping into the arena with a venture that aims to “understand the true nature of the…

Source: Cottonbro Studio / PexelsCryptocurrencies that boast a strong artificial intelligence (AI)-linked use case, such as Render Network (RNDR), SingularityNET (AGIX) and Fetch.ai (FET) have seen a pump on Wednesday amid positive AI news. Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that he had launched a new…

Scientists used the LOFAR telescope (seen on the ground in this illustration) to measure the radiation leaking from SpaceX's network of more than 2,000 Starlink satellites (Image credit: Daniëlle Futselaar (artsource.nl)) SpaceX's Starlink satellites are leaking radiation into the night sky as they circle Earth, which could be interfering with…

Elon Musk described continued improvement of the Raptor 3 engine beyond levels reported in May. The Saturn V rocket generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust. A 20 million pound thrust Starship booster with the improved Raptor 3 engines will have 263% of the power of the Saturn…

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that carried the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on May 30, 2020, successfully completed its 16th mission Sunday night when it launched 22 Starlink satellites into space from Florida's Cape Canaveral. File Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA/UPI | License Photo July 10 (UPI)…

China rocket startup Space Pioneer, aka Beijing Tianbing Technology, has raised a total of three billion Chinese yuan ($414 million) across 11 rounds since its establishment in 2018. The funding will be used to complete the Tianlong-3 kerosene-liquid oxygen launch vehicle and its engine and the construction of a dedicated…

Update: The Falcon 9 lifted off at 11:58 p.m. EDT (0358 UTC). The first stage booster successfully completed its record-breaking 16th mission, lofting the Falcon 9 second stage and its payload of Starlink satellites, before landing on a drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic. The second stage…

News Spaceflight SpaceX just set a new rocket-reuse record. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Sunday at 11:58 p.m. EDT (0358 GMT on July 10), sending 22 of SpaceX's Starlink satellites toward low-Earth orbit (LEO). It was the unprecedented 16th launch for…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the Starlink 5-3 mission with 48 Starlink internet satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Read More

WASHINGTON — Europe, temporarily lacking its own access to space, plans to rely more on SpaceX to launch key science and navigation spacecraft while working to restore its launch capabilities. The successful final Ariane 5 launch July 5 means that Europe temporarily has no ability to launch payloads into orbit.…