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eVTOL developer AutoFlight has shared its latest milestone en route to seeking certification for its four passenger air taxi by 2025. Today, the company shared that the Gen4 design of its “Prosperity I” aircraft has successfully completed the world’s longest eVTOL flight. AutoFlight is an R&D specialist focused on autonomous flight and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) technology based in Shanghai. The company evolved from a consumer drone company called Yuneec, both of which…

<!----> BorgWarner Inc. has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Hubei Surpass Sun Electric’s (SSE’s) Electric Vehicle Charging Solution, Smart Grid and Smart Energy businesses. The company said the acquisition is an important move for BorgWarner’s electrification…

Image Source : FREEPIK Amazon's Alexa completes 5 years in India, introduces new male voice Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa, has completed five years in India and to mark the occasion, Amazon has introduced a new male voice option for Alexa's responses. Indian users can now switch between the original female voice and a new male voice. In addition, Alexa can now…

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann is pictured in her Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during her first spacewalk. She and fellow spacewalker Koichi Wakata (out of frame) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency installed a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure that will enable the future installation of the orbiting lab’s next roll-out solar array. Credit: NASAWork to do outside the space station …Honoring a pair of former astronauts …And a…

Artist’s impression of the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The mission will help us better understand the flow of particles from the Sun called the solar wind — and how those particles interact with space within the solar system and beyond. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Princeton University/Steve Gribben<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958,…

The last Boeing 747 to ever be built has changed hands in front of thousands of people who wanted to say goodbye to the iconic widebody plane. Customers, suppliers, celebrities, as well as current and former employees — including the original staff known ass the "Incredibles" who built the first 747 — gathered at the company's Everett factory to witness Boeing delivering the plane to Atlas Air Worldwide. The event marks the plane's end of production since it was first built in 1967.  Boeing revealed back in 2020 that it…

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2020, and has since been spending every Martian sol exploring the western end of Jezero Crater, imaging the Martian surface, and—vitally—collecting rock samples that will be shipped to Earth in the early 2030s.Now, the intrepid rover has cored, stored, and dropped its final sample from the Red Planet. The sample was deposited on January 28, nearly a year since the rover picked up its first specimen from a rock on January 31, 2022.Perseverance had a false start when…

Perseverance’s Three Forks Sample Depot Selfie: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with several of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample depot it is creating within an area of Jezero Crater nicknamed “Three Forks.” Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSTen sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Mars</div><div…

Last Updated: January 30, 2023, 13:41 ISTVikarabad-Parli Vaijnath electrification project (Photo: IANS)Vikarabad-Parli Vaijnath electrification project was sanctioned in 2018-19 at an estimated cost of Rs 244 croreThe South Central Railway has completed the Vikarabad-Parli Vaijnath electrification project, which covers Telangana, Karnataka, and Maharashtra.The final stretch of the project between Latur Road-Parli Vaijnath, a distance of 63.75 km, has been commissioned, marking the completion of the entire project.With…

The world leader in semiconductor technology, Samsung Electronics, has recently announced the completion of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on the product carbon footprint for its semiconductors. It has also received certification from DNV, which is one of the world’s leading independent certification bodies. LCA measures the environmental impacts of commercial products, processes, or services on various parameters such as energy, materials, and waste discharge. Samsung’s LCA covers raw materials through chip…