Alan Boyle | Vox Our world has too much noise and too little context. Vox helps you understand what matters. 2019-03-06T10:51:45+00:00 https://www.vox.com/authors/alan-boyle/rss https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/vox_logo_rss_light_mode.png?w=150&h=100&crop=1 Alan Boyle <![CDATA[Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans Hyperloop Pod Races at California HQ in 2016]]> https://www.vox.com/2015/6/15/11563574/elon-musks-spacex-plans-hyperloop-pod-races-at-california-hq-in-2016 2019-03-06T05:24:22-05:00 2015-06-15T12:48:32-04:00 The SpaceX rocket company announced something completely different on Monday: A Hyperloop pod competition that would follow up on a high-speed transit concept laid out by the company’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk.

The contest would reach its climax next June with pod races at a roughly mile-long Hyperloop test track that will be built next to SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., according to documents obtained by NBC News.

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]]> Alan Boyle <![CDATA[SpaceX Cargo Ship Lifts Off After Cliffhanger Countdown]]> https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/11625802/spacex-cargo-ship-lifts-off-after-cliffhanger-countdown 2019-03-06T05:51:45-05:00 2014-04-18T14:11:37-04:00 SpaceX got its long-delayed commercial cargo run to the International Space Station off the ground on Friday despite Florida’s touch-and-go weather.

The company’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off into the cloudy skies over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 3:25 pm ET, sending a robotic Dragon cargo capsule into orbit.

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]]> Alan Boyle <![CDATA[Laser Fusion Project Takes One Small Step Toward Energy Leap]]> https://www.vox.com/2014/2/12/11623422/laser-fusion-project-takes-one-small-step-toward-energy-leap 2019-03-06T05:42:09-05:00 2014-02-12T13:49:27-05:00 America’s multibillion-dollar, laser-blasting fusion machine has gotten more energy out of a smidgen of fuel than was put into it — but the most significant thing is how it was done.

The latest experiments, reported in this week’s issue of the journal Nature, marked a first for the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. They’re the first laser shots to produce a net gain in energy under any definition, and they’re also the first to show evidence of a mechanism that’s essential if controlled fusion is ever to become a reality.

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