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Jun- 2021 -4 JuneSpaceX
SpaceX cargo spaceship dubbed CRS-22 launches new solar arrays for the ISS and even sticks the landing!
SpaceX launched its 17th rocket of the year today (June 3), sending a robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station before nailing a landing at sea. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Pad 39A here at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 1:29 p.m. EDT (1729 GMT), kicking off the company’s 22nd resupply mission to the orbiting lab for NASA. The Dragon is packed with more than 7,300 lbs. (3,311 kilograms) of supplies, scientific experiments and hardware, including two new solar arrays for the space station’s power grid. Approximately 9 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9’s first…
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3 JuneTSMC
TSMC Shares Major EUV Chipmaking Lead and Plans For 2nm Production Plant
At this year’s TSMC Technology Symposium, the company took the opportunity to update its customers and industry onlookers on the semiconductor manufacturer’s latest developments in regards to its newest technologies and manufacturing roadmaps. As part of a regular presentation, the foundry updated us on its status on it’s current leading-edge manufacturing technologies, the N7, N5 and their respective derivatives such as N6 and N5. During the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) 2021 Online Technology Symposium, the company’s senior vice president for operations, Mr. Y.P. Chin, shared important details for his company’s chip manufacturing capacity and progress with extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…
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3 JuneApple
The Apple Car project is losing several key managers, could get completely dissolved in the near future!
Few Apple projects have gone through more of a rollercoaster ride than Project Titan — the codename for Apple’s much-rumoured autonomous vehicle ambitions — so it probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise that even as the Apple Car gets closer to reality it’s still dealing with the shifting sands of personnel changes at the top. We first heard reports of the Apple Car back in 2015, after Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly assigned hundreds of employees to a new ultra-secret project then only known as Titan, and right from the beginning it was apparent that Apple was trying to build…
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3 JuneSpaceX
Elon Musk Spills The Beans On His Plans For World’s Largest Rocket Ever To Be Built
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) chief executive officer Mr. Elon Musk has shared details for his company’s Starship launch vehicle platform. Starship is currently under development in SpaceX’s facilities in Boca Chica, Texas. Once development is complete, it will replace the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket and conduct interplanetary and lunar missions. It will also enable SpaceX to expand its Starlink constellation of internet satellites rapidly and, in the process, become the largest operational rocket in the world. The latest details came in the form of several tweets made by the executive yesterday, as he commented on a picture for…
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2 JuneSpace
China launches Tianzhou 2, first cargo mission to new space station despite initial delay
China has delivered a spectacular four-peat in space within a month following the successful launch of the Tianhe core cabin, Tianwen-1’s soft-landing on Mars, and Zhurong rover kicking off its grand journey on the Red Planet after driving off the landing platform, as a Long March-7 Y3 carrier rocket took off from Wenchang spaceport on the tropical island of Hainan in South China late Saturday night, sending the Tianzhou unmanned cargo spacecraft into preset orbit for an epic space station supply mission. China has launched its Tianzhou 2 cargo mission to its new space station. Liftoff from the Wenchang Spacecraft…
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