The crew capsule on the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket that blasted off on April 29 reached an apogee of 351,000 feet. The test was a successful reflight of the vehicle flown on Blue Origin's last mission. The team explained the launch in an email, writing: New Shepard flew again for the eighth time on April 29, 2018, from Blue Origin’s West Texas Launch Site. Known as Mission 8 (M8), the mission featured a reflight of the vehicle flown on Mission 7. The Crew Capsule reached an apogee of 351,000 feet (66 miles, 107 kilometers) – the altitude we’ve been targeting for operations. For the … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2018
Is Commercial Coal-to-Hydrogen Imminent?
Scientists working for Kawasaki Heavy Industries and the government of Australia are working together to test ways to turn coal into liquid hydrogen. The group is putting over $380 million (US) into the plan. FT reports: The pilot project aims to generate “green energy” for use in cars, electricity generation and industry in Japan from one of the dirtiest fuels, brown coal. It involves converting coal to hydrogen at a power plant in the Latrobe Valley — a region in Australia with some of the world’s most abundant supplies of the fossil fuel, which is also called lignite. “The global … [Read more...]
Is China’s Recovery Fizzling Out?
The FT's Confidential Research team has been tracking Chinese business activity, and the country's economic recovery looks to be slowing down. The team reports: China’s economy lost a little more steam in April, deepening a slowdown seen at the end of the first quarter. The latest data from FT Confidential Research showed fresh weakness in the freight and export industries, and a household sector less confident in the domestic economy. The all-important property sector lent support, with the FTCR Real Estate Index showing a second successive month of improving conditions. That helped … [Read more...]
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