SpaceX Successfully lands Falcon 9

SpaceX's Falcon 9 joins the elite club of reusable rockets.

The Blue Origins, New Shepard made headlines this year when it became the worlds first reusable rocket after it successfully to space and made a perfect landing afterward.
In more recent news Elon Musk's SpaceX's Falcon 9 made news when it also completed this amazing feat over at Cape Canaveral

We are well aware of Musk's vision for inter planetary travel for quite some time now, and this feat has made put him that much closer to achieving it.

The Falcon 9, in its trajectory manage to launch 11 satellites into orbit, reach space and successfully return back to Earth. It is a two stage rocket meant for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit.

The Dragon is a free-flying spacecraft designed to deliver both cargo and people to orbiting destinations. It made history in 2012 when it became the worlds first commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to the international space station and safely return cargo to earth. Until now it has been primarily used for the transport of cargo, although its actual development was for the transport of humans. Under an agreement with NASA, SpaceX is now developing the refinements that will enable Dragon to fly crew, as stated in their website.


Stay tuned for more developments following emerging space technologies.

You can check out more about the company's developments at its site here.

Sarthak J. Shetty
Editor In Chief

LightSail Energy

Compressed air, the new frontier in clean enrgy.

People are always looking forward towards new developments in the energy sector, more so in recent years than ever. Another company that is making news is LightSail Energy.

The product that the company is offering is a device which can store energy by compressing air in a compressor; when the energy is required for use, its pumped out of the compressor and is in turn used to drive a turbine which is attached to a generator, thereby generating electricity.

Now the main feature of this technology that is making heads turn is this: Compressing air is not an efficient process mainly because whenever the process takes place a significant per cent of the energy is wasted in the form of heat. LightSail proposes that this energy be used to heat a spray of water. This heat is stored in heat storage. When the air is to pumped out of the tanks, the stored heat is made us of. Therefore the technology that the company is developing has greatly improved the efficiency of such systems. The heat storage plays a key role in this system; LightSail proposes the heat generated during compression be made use for heating buildings, thereby eliminating the use of separate systems for heating; in the same way when the compressed air is to be expelled to drive the turbines of the generator, heat is extracted from the same buildings, thereby providing a cooling effect in the same.



The company states that this system achieves a 90% efficiency, far greater than existing systems.
The main hurdle that the company faces is the lack of capital; developing turbines, storage units, compressors etc from scratch is indeed a very expensive ordeal. Co-founder and CEO Danielle Fong, states that it requires upwards of a hundred million dollars to develop these systems.
She has also been named one of Forbes 30 Under 30, for her pioneering work in the field of clean energy.
The project has attracted funding from the likes of Peter Thiel, Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla to name a few.

Stay tuned for more developments in the field of new technologies.

Sarthak J. Shetty
Editor In Chief

Quora, The Online Camfire

Welcome To The Campfire

There has been a recent increase in the number of online knowledge sharing website, and the one to watch for is Quora, a site that I use personally.

It was co-founded by Mike Cheever and Adam D'Angelo who is ex CTO of Facebook.

The site basically provides you the "best answer for any question" as it claims.

(From left to right Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo, the co-founders)

Its has an amazing conglomeration of CEOs professors, subject experts, college students, inventors and just nerds (there I said it).

The site is valued at $800 million, and its forecasted to increase exponentially.

(Quora's Office, looks pretty serious in there)

If you do decide to join it you are required to pick out the topics that interests, once you're done with it you find that your stream is constantly flooded with really amazing mind bending questions, situations that you never really bothered to look at differently.

So you can check out the site here.

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Digital Genius, Another AI On The Rise

Artificial Intelligence On The Rise:

Digital Genius is an Artificial Genius startup based out of Silicon Valley, California. Digital Genius is perhaps the best conversational AI that I have seen to date since Siri and perhaps its even better than Siri.

The main realm where it beats Siri is the fact that it can recognize catch phrases. Other than that it uses online retail experiences, in order to develop the AI's knowledge base of phrases that are oftenly used.

                               (To your right is the founder of Digital Genius, Dimitri Aksenov)

The Digital Genius team is also developing new ways through which it brings to you highly personalized ads, by combing through your searches, your orders on online websites etc.

The clientele list is pretty amazing as they already have major players like BMW onboard; In fact BMW used their software during the launch of their electric vehicles.

You can check out more about Digital Genius here.

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Startups: Ather Energy

Electric Vehicles, Redefined, For The Second Time.

This is a new section of the blog where we talk of the most promising startups around the world, what better way to start off by than by talking about Ather Energy.




Ather Energy is a startup based out of Bangalore, India. It was co-founded by two IIT Madras graduates, Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain.

(Co-founders of Ather Energy From Left To Right Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain)

The startup is developing electric scooters for the future.
Just one look at the website, shows just how passionate and ambitious they are. They have been in the news several times after receiving several rounds of financing.

The co-founders of Flipkart.com, Sachin and Binny Bansal, had invested $1 million in the startup and most recently Tiger Global invested $12 million just a few days back.

The scooters really do look from the future. As you scroll through the webpage you get hints of the fact that these guys are really out there to revolutionize not only the the way people look at electric vehicles but also the importance of design when it comes to vehicles.

They are incorporating a lot of revolutionary features into their scooters, such as greater mileage, incorporating lightweight materials, new Android UI on the dash etc.

You can check out more about them, at their website here.
Image courtesy Ather Energy.

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