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Space startup Momentus charged by SEC with misleading investors

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday charged embattled space infrastructure startup Momentus Space and its founder, Mikhail Kokorich, with allegedly misleading investors about its propulsion technology and downplaying regulators’ national security concerns associated with Kokorich, who is Russian. The SEC also charged the company, Stable Road Acquisition Corp, that was going to…
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40-Year Mystery Solved: Source of Jupiter’s X-Ray Flares Uncovered

. A puzzler about the gas giant’s intense northern and southern lights has been deciphered. Planetary astronomers combined measurements taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, with data from ESA’s (the European Space Agency’s) Earth-orbiting XMM-Newton mission, to solve a 40-year-old mystery about the origins of Jupiter’s unusual X-ray auroras. For the first time…
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Quick Charge Podcast: July 13, 2021

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Western Australia plans to build world’s largest clean energy hub

A site the size of greater Sydney may host a $100 billion project to convert wind and solar into green hydrogen in Western Australia. If built, it will become the world’s largest clean energy hub. Australian renewable energy developer CWP Global, Hong Kong-based Intercontinental Energy, and Indigenous-owned energy company Mirning Green Energy Limited announced the project today. The companies…
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