Tag Archives: space

SpaceX launched the first all-civilian crew into orbit on Wednesday evening. The liftoff at 8:02 p.m. from Kennedy Space Center in Florida is a major step towards the future of commercial space travel.  “Few have come before, and many are about to follow,” said billionaire Jared Isaacman from inside the spacecraft. The 38-year-old founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments (FOUR) funded the mission called Inspiration4. The voyage benefits St Jude’s Hospital.  None of the four crew members on board… Source link

TOKYO — Yahoo Japan will vacate 40% of its Tokyo office space by November as it expects the COVID-necessitated work-from-home trend to gain permanence. The subsidiary of SoftBank-backed Z Holdings will return about 30,000 sq. meters, more than four soccer fields worth, of office space, when leases expire. It will empty out seven of 20 floors at its Kioi Tower headquarters, in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, and all five floors that it has in Akasaka K Tower, in Minato Ward. Only about 10% of Yahoo’s… Source link

TOKYO — Yahoo Japan will vacate 40% of its Tokyo office space by November as it expects the COVID-necessitated work-from-home trend to gain permanence. The subsidiary of SoftBank-backed Z Holdings will return about 30,000 sq. meters, more than four soccer fields worth, of office space, when leases expire. It will empty out seven of 20 floors at its Kioi Tower headquarters, in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, and all five floors that it has in Akasaka K Tower, in Minato Ward. Only about 10% of Yahoo’s… Source link

I lost count of how many emails I got when Google announced a change to its storage policies, doing away with unlimited storage for photos and videos. Still, trying to figure out a better long-term photo management solution? I can help. Tap or click to see all the free storage you can get. If you have an Amazon Prime account, you’re in luck. Or maybe you only rely on Google’s services for search and email. Tap or click for 10 buried settings and features in your inbox. My favorite is Undo… Source link

Soon after Amazon (AMZN) chairman and founder Jeff Bezos returned to Earth from space on Tuesday, the billionaire received sharp criticism from progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) contrasting the low tax bills paid by him and Amazon with those borne by everyday Americans who “keep this country running.” The criticism came in response to remarks made by Bezos thanking Amazon customers and employees whose purchases and work “paid for” the space expedition, which was carried out by… Source link

Wednesday, July 14, 2021 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos will launch Tuesday from a remote area of west Texas on his Blue Origin rocket, becoming the second billionaire this month to leave the Earth, albeit briefly. Bezos’ July 20 flight on the New Shepard spacecraft will come less than two… Source link

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, fires up its hybrid rocket motor to head spaceward. (Virgin Galactic via YouTube) Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson rode his company’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane into the skies over New Mexico today and did something that no billionaire has done before. In the company of five crewmates, Branson became the first billionaire to take a rocket-powered ride on his own company’s spaceship, rising above the 50-mile mark that the… Source link

By Steve Gorman TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (Reuters) -British billionaire Richard Branson prepared on Sunday to climb into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane and soar more than 50 miles (80 km) above the New Mexico desert in the vehicle’s first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space. Branson, one of six Virgin Galactic Holding Inc employees strapping in for the ride, has touted the flight as a precursor to a new era of space tourism, with the company he founded poised to begin… Source link

As the commercialization and industrialization of space becomes more of an inevitability with every successful launch by companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic (SPCE), space debris, or space junk, is becoming a growing concern of both corporate and government aerospace entities alike. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimated that there are 29,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters, 670,000 objects larger than one centimeter, and more than 170 million objects larger than one millimeter… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) officially has a CEO not named Jeff Bezos as of Monday (it’s Andy Jassy), but a stock price that’s acting like it normally does: moving up and to the right.  Shares of the tech beast have surged 14% to $3,642 in the past month in the lead-up to Jassy assuming the CEO mantle from the soon-to-be astronaut Bezos. As of Tuesday afternoon trading, Amazon’s ticker page was the most trafficked on the Yahoo Finance platform — beating out Didi (stock down 21% after a China crackdown… Source link