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Tesla’s Master Plan turns 15 years old: What Elon Musk’s company has achieved so far

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Musk, who has built Tesla from nothing to the world’s most valuable automaker, with the help of employees and other executives, of course, showed the plan that would take the company to the top. Musk’s four bullet points cleverly stated: Build sports car. The Tesla Roadster was the automaker’s first car.

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SpaceX bests Boeing to become NASA’s largest for-profit vendor

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Fourteen years after winning its first major NASA contract, data shared by Aviation Week reporter Irene Klotz shows that SpaceX has usurped every other major aerospace company in the US to become the space agency’s largest for-profit vendor. billion in the same period, ranks higher on NASA’s list of FY2022 vendors.

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SpaceX just finished Starship’s 100th Raptor engine

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SpaceX says its Hawthorne, California rocket factory and headquarters has completed the assembly of Starship and Super Heavy’s 100th Raptor engine. Eventually, six months after SN8’s successful ascent but failed landing, Starship SN15 successfully landed, demonstrating Raptor’s ability to reignite mid-flight.

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Blue Origin launches first suborbital tourists after six years and 15 test flights

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More than six years after New Shepard’s first test flight and nine years after a pad abort featuring a prototype of the rocket’s capsule, Blue Origin has launched its first crew of suborbital tourists. For the last several years, Vulcan and New Glenn were both aiming for a launch debut sometime in 2020.

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Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle response feature is addressing a deadly problem no one wants to talk about

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This is because there is a deadly problem on America’s roads, and it is something that very few seem to be acknowledging. Author’s Note and Trigger Warning: The succeeding sections of this article contains links to footage and other online references that may cause distress to readers. The Flaws of HumanPilot.

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Building Better Qubits

Cars That Think

Riel is the recipient of this year’s IEEE Andrew S. I feel very humbled and honored because I have great respect for Andrew S. In 2017 IBM released a new transistor—the Nanosheet—that uses the concepts Riel says she and her team developed between 2005 and 2012.

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On the Horizon

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The commitment — expected to be announced Tuesday by Nissan’s chief executive, Carlos Ghosn — will be the first by a major automaker to bring a zero-emission vehicle to the American market. Nissan also expects to sell a lineup of electric vehicles globally by 2012. clip The company plans to introduce 60 models worldwide by 2012.

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