DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Edward Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
DORONI FLYING CAR THAT ANYONE CAN FLY
Source: Doroni
- Florida-based Doroni is releasing an eVTOL flying car that you can fly with just a drivers' license. Here's what we know:
- Called Doroni's H1
- Electric flying car that fits in a garage
- Wheels to drive it into the garage
- Designed for personal use as a replacement for the family car, although it is currently a 2-seater
- All electric, vertical takeoff and landing vehicle
- To fly you need a regular driver's license and complete a 20-hour training course
- Semi-autonomous flight control system
- Self-stabilizing technology for smooth flying
- 2 sets of wings, large duct fans, 23-feet long
- 80% recharge in 20 minutes
- Cruising speed of 100 mph; top speed is 140 mph
- Range is 60 miles
- Will be delivered to customers in Q4 2024
- Starting price of $150,000.00
LASER BEAM MESSAGE FROM SPACE
Source: Stock & NASA
- NASA, using the Psyche Spacecraft, just laser beamed a message from 10 million miles deep in space to Caltech's Hale Telescope. Here's why this is so important:
- This laser beamed message is a world first
- NASA calls it a "major scientific breakthrough of receiving first light"
- The transmission is the first optical communications from beyond the Earth Moon system
- Transmission took 50 seconds
- Carried tons of encoded data
- It could lead to a breakthrough new form of spacecraft communications
- Viewed as a major step to sending astronauts to Mars and send scientific data, HD images and stream video
- Uses a flight laser transceiver, ground laser transmitter and other technologies
- Travelled 40-times farther than the distance between Earth and the Moon.
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