DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
NEXT-G GPS WITH INCREDIBLE PRECISION
Source: Xona
- CA-based start-up Xona Space Systems just secured nearly $20 million in investment money to build a super-accurate, alternative GPS system. Here are some key facts:
- New system is called Pulsar
- It takes the accuracy of GPS from the meters-level to the centimeter level
- Designed for the much higher level of navigational accuracy needed for the deployment of autonomous cars, advanced robotics & other new technologies
- Pulsar will be deployed through a 300-satellite constellation in low Earth orbit similar to Starlink cellular communications
- For decades GPS (Global Positioning System) has provided positioning, navigation and timing through billions of devices for free
- Pulsar will cost less to operate and provide more accuracy in geolocation data
- First Xona satellite will be launched in June 2025
- Xona was founded by 7 Stanford University grads.
NEW SCIENCE: HUGE, EXOTIC CREATURES ROAMED PRE-HISTORIC NORTH AMERICA
- Experts involved in various studies think that, based on skeletal remains, huge, exotic creatures existed in North America during pre-historic times that went extinct. Thanks to new scientific discoveries, we can take a look back millions of years. Here are several prominent ones:
- Saber-toothed cats weighing 350 to 620 pounds and nearly 6-feet in length
- Giant beavers weighing 125 pounds
- Giant 10-foot-tall sloughs weighing 2200 pounds (giant slough remains found in West Virginia were described by Thomas Jefferson in 1799)
- Camelops (large camels) 7-feet-tall weighing nearly a ton
- Cheetah-like animals weighing nearly 150 pounds
- Quite a group to run into as you take a relaxing walk through the forest!! They existed millions of years ago and became extinct - thanks to new science, we've made a remote acquaintance.
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