Bill Nye and hundreds of others gathered at Capitol Hill on Monday to protest against the Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts to NASA, arguing that Congress has an obligation to promote the progress of science. “The United States would cede leadership to other countries, especially [the] China National Space Administration,” if funding to NASA Science…
TURIN – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted on Friday gigawatt-scale data centers will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years and that continuously available solar energy meant they would eventually outperform those based on Earth. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the surge in artificial intelligence…
The Amazon founder predicts that the insatiable energy demands of artificial intelligence will drive the construction of gigawatt-scale computing facilities in space, powered by constant sunlight. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the space exploration company Blue Origin, has predicted that the next frontier for the technology industry lies beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Speaking this…
NASA’s VIPER lunar rover could be delivered to the moon by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company. The US space agency has awarded the company a task order to design a delivery plan for the rover, with a future delivery option. The award, worth $190 million, was issued through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)…
China remains America’s top threat in space and is catching up to the United States military’s space capabilities at an “incredible pace,” according to a top Space Force general. “They are bringing on capability, I won’t say daily, but at least monthly, that puts our assets at risk,” Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess, the commander of…
Today’s quest for dominance in outer space looks quite different from the first space race between the U.S. and Russia in the 1950s. The new book “Rocket Dreams” looks into the new era, including the trillion-dollar competition between Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. Author Christian Davenport joins “The Takeout” to discuss. Source…
Those data centers will be powered by Nvidia chips and the company said it would ship up to 120,000 advanced GPUs to British data centers in total, funded by investments from Microsoft, Nscale, OpenAI and CoreWeave. Around half of those GPUs will go to British data center firm Nscale, which is partnering with Microsoft to…
Astroscale Holdings expects satellite orders to increase under new space-defense guidelines issued by the U.K. and Japanese defense ministries. The new guidelines by U.K. and Japan, announced in June and July, respectively, could generate “up to double-digit satellite orders,” signaling a stronger pipeline, Chief Financial Officer Nobuhiro Matsuyama said in an interview. The moves are…
One day after the arrival of a Russian cargo ship, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an upgraded Northrop Grumman space freighter Sunday, putting the unpiloted spacecraft on course for capture by the International Space Station early Wednesday. On board: more than 5 tons of needed spare parts, research material and crew supplies, including holiday…
SpaceX readied its huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket for a second launch try on Monday to kick off the program’s 10th test flight, a milestone mission to put corrective upgrades through their paces after three catastrophic failures earlier this year. A successful flight would help restore confidence in the gargantuan rocket amid growing concern a moon…