Polaris brings quiet power to the worksite with the Pro XD Kinetic e-UTV

Polaris has announced the addition of another XD – or extreme duty – UTV to its lineup, this time an electric multitasker “engineered from the inside out to withstand tough jobsite duty cycles and enable all-day operation with zero exhaust.”Continue Re… Continue reading Polaris brings quiet power to the worksite with the Pro XD Kinetic e-UTV

New Moonwalkers designed to get workers around a warehouse faster

Shift Robotics aimed to get folks walking faster back in 2022, with a Kickstarter project for strap-on powered wheels called Moonwalkers. Now the Carnegie Mellon spinoff is launching a business-specific variant called the Moonwalkers X.Continue Reading… Continue reading New Moonwalkers designed to get workers around a warehouse faster

Startup Vast plans first commercial space station for launch in 2025

Space startup Vast has announced that it intends to launch what it calls the world’s first commercial space station, Haven-1, sometime after August 2025 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as the first element of a 100-m (330 ft) rotating station.Continue Re… Continue reading Startup Vast plans first commercial space station for launch in 2025

Review: 2022 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is a cargo van that delivers

The 2022 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is a commercial van with extremely varied capability. It can be outfitted simply, as our cargo van version was, or with a fully self-contained camping/living quarters, or anything in between. There are three engine optio… Continue reading Review: 2022 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is a cargo van that delivers

The first all-private mission to ISS splashes down after 17 days

After delays due to bad weather back on Earth, Axiom-1 (Ax-1), history’s first all-private mission to the International Space Mission (ISS) returned today. At 1:06 pm EDT, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off the coast of Florida.Continue R… Continue reading The first all-private mission to ISS splashes down after 17 days

First private mission to the International Space Station lifts off

History was made today when Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first private crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS), lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:17 am EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Co… Continue reading First private mission to the International Space Station lifts off

EU contracts Airbus to develop in-orbit satellite manufacturing concept

Europe is getting into the space manufacturing race as the European Commission awards Airbus a €3-million (US$3.5-million) contract to prepare a low-Earth orbit demonstration project. Currently an A/B1 phase study contract, the PERIOD (PERASPERA (short… Continue reading EU contracts Airbus to develop in-orbit satellite manufacturing concept