(2 March 2021 – ICEYE) ICEYE has announced a strategic partnership with Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance and insurance. Building on ICEYE’s innovative technology, the partnership will advance flood risk management, assist disaster response and speed up claims payments globally. Swiss Re’s clients will benefit from enhanced insights and bespoke solutions. The partnership announced today ...
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Sand Dunes on Mars Shift From Season to Season
Mars’ gravity makes it an amazing place to find some of the biggest landscapes in the solar system. Those would include the solar system’s biggest sand dune – one that resides in Russell crater. Now, a team of scientists led by Dr. Cynthia Dinwiddie noticed something unique about the sides of this massive dune. Occasionally gullies form along its surface. ...
Read More »Cosmic Opportunities №21
Spring is here, warm and sunny days coming soon. That is inspired for new achievements, what we actually see by drastic increase of activity in recent weeks. Roger Dewell – 02’2021 has left the “Infinite Orbits”, he was Vice President, Business and Technology Development. Scott Soenen – 02’21 has left the “Capella Space”, he was VP Product Engineering. Took office ...
Read More »DOGE Dips With Market While Musk Laughs at SEC Investigation Rumor
Source: Adobe/asiraj The coin that could well be the memest of all memecoins, dogecoin (DOGE), continues swimming in the sea of red today alongside the rest of the market. Meanwhile, Tesla supremo and the mover of markets Elon Musk seems quite amused by a rumor of a US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) investigation. At 09:46 UTC, DOGE, ranked 14th ...
Read More »McCann to step down as Dalata Hotel Group CEO
Datala Hotel Group’s outgoing CEO Pat McCann and incoming CEO Dermot Crowley Dalata Hotel Group, which owns the Maldron and Clayton hotels, has reported a 68% reduction in revenue leading to a loss after tax of €101m for the year to the end of December, which it described as an unprecedented year of challenge for the industry. The hotel group ...
Read More »Got Revenue? Alternative Financing Tools Look To Help SaaS Founders Avoid Dilution
While large venture funding rounds often grab the headlines, more tools continue to spring up to offer founders alternatives to what can be costly dilutive equity rounds. While venture debt, shared earning agreements (SEALs), simple agreement for future equity (SAFEs), and revenue-based financing all have proliferated in popularity to some degree or another, some companies now entering the market are ...
Read More »KPMG, BitGo, and Coin Metrics launch combined offering for public blockchains
Global accounting firm KPMG has announced the launch of a suite of products and services designed to enable increased adoption of cryptoassets and public blockchains in a combined offering with digital asset firms BitGo and Coin Metrics. The collaboration seeks to bring KPMG’s Chain Fusion services, capabilities and accelerators; BitGo’s custody technology; and Coin Metrics’ data and intelligence products to ...
Read More »Rocket Lab Unveils Reusable Neutron Booster, Targets NET 2024 Maiden Launch
Drawing on the heritage of its Electron fleet, Rocket Lab expects Neutron to begin flying and pushing the limits of reusability by 2024. Photo Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab has announced plans to develop a new medium-lift, human-rated launch vehicle, capable of lifting payloads weighing up to 18,000 pounds (8,000 kg) into low-Earth orbit. The Long Beach, Calif.-headquartered smallsat launch ...
Read More »Engineering student’s technology could revolutionize the use of drones
Tomas Pribanic has found a way to apply ion thrust to autonomous aerial vehicles in Earth’s atmosphere, creating a silent propulsion system and paving the way for the greater application of drones in the cargo delivery industry. Call it his Kitty Hawk moment. His Spirit of St. Louis special. If all goes well at a makeshift airfield in Hialeah early ...
Read More »Parker Solar Probe pulls back the veil on Venus’s night side
When flying past Venus in July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument, short for Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, detected a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere that recombine into molecules in the nightside. The prominent dark feature in the center of the ...
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