During most of the Artemis II mission, the crew of four astronauts beamed back low-definition video, both from inside the spacecraft and from exterior views of the Moon. It was exhilarating stuff, but in a world in which we're all watching HDTVs, it also felt a little flat. This is because Orion largely communicated with Earth via radio waves, picked up by large dishes sprinkled around the world. ...
During most of the Artemis II mission, the crew of four astronauts beamed back low-definition video, both from inside the spacecraft and from exterior views of the Moon. It was exhilarating stuff, but in a world in which we're all watching HDTVs, it also felt a little flat. This is because Orion largely communicated with Earth via radio waves, picked up by large dishes sprinkled around the world. This is pretty much the same way the Apollo spacecraft talked to Earth more than half a century ago. However, unlike Apollo, the astronauts on Orion would periodically send batches of much higher-resolution data, including the stunning photographs of the far side of the Moon and the Solar eclipse observed from there. This was made possible by optical laser communications, and not just those built by NASA. The mission included a commercial component that could pave the way for vastly more data returning to Earth from space than ever before. Read full article Comments
By evolving from a pure-play licensor to an in-house silicon producer, ARM holdings is directly addressing the hardware bottlenecks of the agentic AI era.
By evolving from a pure-play licensor to an in-house silicon producer, ARM holdings is directly addressing the hardware bottlenecks of the agentic AI era.
sitox/E+ via Getty Images The U.S. is in " the very early innings" of independence from China for rare earth metals, USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) CEO Barbara Humpton said Wednesday in a Bloomberg interview. "China set this as an objective decades ago," the CEO said. "They declared the Middle East has oil, China has rare earths, and now we've seen how that monopoly has been used for statecraft." USA Rar...
sitox/E+ via Getty Images The U.S. is in " the very early innings" of independence from China for rare earth metals, USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) CEO Barbara Humpton said Wednesday in a Bloomberg interview. "China set this as an objective decades ago," the CEO said. "They declared the Middle East has oil, China has rare earths, and now we've seen how that monopoly has been used for statecraft." USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) has no operating mine but has swiftly vaulted into multibillion-dollar dealmaking, and its shares have surged ~35% in the three days since the company announced its $2.8B acquisition of Brazil's Serra Verde Group, which owns the only producing rare earths mine in Brazil, operating a large ionic clay deposit capable of producing key magnet rare earths, including scarcer heavy elements. Humpton said USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) plans to increase domestic production through mining operations in Texas, a separation facility in Colorado, and a magnet-making plant in Stillwater, Oklahoma, adding that the company is focused on growing organically to grow the value chain, benefiting from demand from magnet makers searching for a reliable supply. Analysts at Canaccord reiterated their Buy rating for USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) and raised their stock price target to $32 from $29, noting the Serra Verde deal secures supply so the company can expand production at the new Stillwater facility, which is expected to begin commercial production at the heavy rare earth element-rich Round Top deposit in Texas in 2028. More on USA Rare Earth USA Rare Earth: The Thesis Just Got So Much More Bullish USA Rare Earth M&A Call Transcript USA Rare Earth Serra Verde Pesquisa E Mineracao Ltda - M&A Call - Slideshow