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🚀 Rocket Lab fires secret hypersonic tech, heaviest antimatter ever detected, AI boom could cause 600,000 asthma cases

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Rocket Lab’s recent suborbital mission successfully tested advanced hypersonic technology for the U.S. Department of Defense in November.

This suborbital mission was part of the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) project — a significant step towards accelerating hypersonic flight testing in the US.

As per the press statement, the Department of Defense can accelerate hypersonic technology development by utilizing commercial launch services for affordable component testing. Delve deeper into our Must-Read.

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The mission was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, on November 24th. The mission rode on HASTE, a suborbital adaptation of Rocket Lab’s reliable Electron rocket.

Interestingly, Rocket Lab achieved a remarkable feat by launching two missions in less than 24 hours. The first mission involved a suborbital flight to test hypersonic technology, while the second successfully deployed five satellites into orbit.

Less than 22 hours after the first launch, an Electron rocket deployed five Internet of Things satellites into orbit for the French company Kinéis. Rocket Lab’s “Ice AIS Baby” mission was a major milestone, as it marked the 200th satellite launched by their Electron rocket.

The research team at ALICE, A Large Ion Collider Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), confirmed the first-ever observation of antihyperhelium-4, the antimatter partner of hyperhelium. The observation was made while studying data from a lead-lead collision conducted in 2018 and with a little bit of help from machine learning algorithms. 

Experiments at the LHC involve collisions between heavy ions to create conditions that existed for a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, where the Universe was filled with quark-gluon plasma. 

In addition to helping us understand the origins of the Universe, these experiments also produce new atomic nuclei and hypernuclei alongside their antimatter counterparts, antinuclei and antihypernuclei.

As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rise, so does the energy required by data centers to support these technologies. However, the increased energy consumption comes at a cost: a surge in emissions of harmful air pollutants.

This issue, which is already affecting public health, is expected to worsen. By 2030, data centers in the US could contribute to 600,000 asthma cases and 1,300 premature deaths annually. This would account for more than a third of all asthma-related deaths in the country.

According to Shaolei Ren from the University of California, Riverside, the effects of airborne pollution are widespread. “Public health impacts are direct and tangible impacts on people, and these impacts are substantial and not limited to a small radius of where data centers operate,” Ren explains.

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