Month: May 2026

The industrial future is more like Terminator than Ford

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“Hunter-Killers. Patrol machines. Built in automated factories.” The phrase is pronounced Kyle Reese in ‘Terminator‘, when trying to explain a future dominated by Skynet and its war machines. Forty years later, we are not in that science fiction nightmare, but the connection is too powerful to ignore: China is manufacturing structural components for stealth fighters in a highly automated plant, with almost no humans on the line and with machinery capable of working for much of the day. Turn off the light. The news comes through Science and Technology Daily. According to that source, the factory has more than doubled efficiency in the production of structural components for Chinese stealth fighters, including the J-20. The process, which previously required employees monitoring operations around the clock, now relies on autonomous vehicles, automated machinery guided by AI and systems capable of sustaining activity for almost 24 hours. Of course: we are not talking about complete planes leaving a ship alone, but rather about the manufacturing of the “skeleton” of the aircraft under conditions of very reduced human intervention. What is a dark factory. We are talking about facilities designed to operate with very little human presence, to the point that lighting is no longer a necessary condition for production. Siemens describes these plants as facilities with minimal human activity, capable of operating in the dark. We can see this idea applied to a variety of sectors: steel, mobile phones, domestic engines, and rocket ignition device parts. A complex product. The plant combines autonomous material transportation, high-precision machining, intelligent scanning and robotic inspection. Previously, however, it took two or three employees per shift to keep the machinery running all day, but now the human labor hours needed to operate the plant have been reduced by more than 80%. A factory that learns to speak. The leap did not depend solely on installing more robots. As Song Ge, head of digital manufacturing, explained to Science and Technology Daily, the dozens of machines in the plant used different protocols and software languages, a fragmentation that made it difficult to unify the line and control it as a system. The solution was to ensure that the equipment could communicate, be controlled remotely and coordinated within the same production flow. The plane behind the factory. The J-20 occupies a central place in Chinese air modernization. The Chinese Ministry of Defense confirmed in 2018 its entry into combat service and presented it as a fighter with the capacity to contest air superiority, carry out precision attacks against land and maritime targets, electronic interference and tactical command. An old dream with new machinery. The idea of ​​manufacturing almost without humans was not born with China or with the J-20. CNN recalled in 2003 That dream already came from the eighties, when General Motors imagined robots so reliable that they could assemble transmissions in the dark. That collided with a much clumsier reality: the machines did not work well even with the lights on. Today the map is broader: FANUC has operated a dark factory in Japan since 2001, Makuta Micro Molding applies that model in the United States to microinjection molding and Philips has produced electric clippers in the Netherlands with a highly automated unit supported by hundreds of robots. Looking to the future. The industrial future does not have to look like Skynet, but it does point to factories where human presence weighs less in certain production phases. And when that happens, keeping the lights on throughout the entire operation stops being a productive necessity and becomes dependent on when people enter the plant. Images | Chinese Ministry of Defense In Xataka | Airbus had a single center in the world to convert commercial aircraft into military tankers. Now another one will open in Seville

There is a booming job in the era of artificial intelligence: cybersecurity expert

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Yeah Mythosfrom Anthropic, and GPT-5.4-Cyber, from OpenAI, have been presented as models capable of detecting and exploiting vulnerabilities, the quick conclusion seems quite evident: cybersecurity profiles could begin to become redundant. After all, we are talking about models aimed at moving in one of the most delicate areas of technology: finding flaws before others take advantage of them. The answer, at least for now, goes in the opposite direction to that first intuition. AI is not making the expert irrelevant. On the contrary: today it is more necessary than ever. That signal is already beginning to be noticed clearly in the United States, where the NYT has put figures and testimonies to a trend that was gaining strength: the hiring of cybersecurity profiles. The American newspaper points out that offers in the sector grew by 11% year-on-year in the first quarter, according to Glassdoorand shows how some executive search firms are receiving more assignments to find managers with experience in security breaches, data protection and code review. The reason is not just to protect data. There is also a need to respond to incidents and understand how AI changes the risk surface of companies. The key is that this new layer of AI not only changes the tools of those who protect the systems. It also modifies the possibilities of those who try to compromise them. Reuters pointed out a few days ago that Attackers are increasingly using AI to detect vulnerabilities, and Check Point has warned in its 2026 Cybersecurity Report that AI attacks have moved from the experimental phase to a routine criminal deployment. More tools do not mean fewer cybersecurity experts The market, furthermore, is not asking for exactly the same thing as it did a few years ago. Cybersecurity continues to be the umbrella, but more specific capabilities are beginning to weigh heavily within it: AI, cloud security, engineering, analysis and risk assessment. The 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study points out that hiring managers place AI among the most in-demand skills, with 27%, and professionals raised that perception to 44%. The conclusion is important: knowing about security is not enough. It is becoming increasingly important to understand how this security is integrated into complex systems obviously crossed by AI. Fortinet did a survey and found that 49% of respondents fear that AI will increase cyberattackswhile 97% of organizations already use or plan to use a cybersecurity solution that takes advantage of this technology. So it seems that companies are not only concerned about the offensive use of AI, they are also trying to incorporate it into their own defenses. And that opens up another less visible, but equally important, need: having teams capable of evaluating these tools and integrating them judiciously. In Spain, photography also points to a sector in full expansion. INCIBE summarizes it with a very useful phrase to ground the phenomenon: “Cybersecurity is already one of the most dynamic sectors of the Spanish digital economy.” According to the study on the cybersecurity industry in Spain 2025the organization places employment at 164,761 people and points out that cybersecurity already represents 25.55% of employment in the ICT sector. The forecast, furthermore, does not speak of a specific increase: between 2026 and 2029, the sector will grow at an annual rate of 14.25%, until reaching 282,157 jobs at the end of that period. “Cybersecurity is already one of the most dynamic sectors of the Spanish digital economy.” The problem is that this growth comes with an obvious tension: there are not always enough profiles prepared to cover what companies need. Deloitte formulates it from the side of those responsible for security: “Nearly 38% of CISOs identify reliance on scarce profiles as a significant challenge, reflecting a persistent gap between growing demand for capabilities and limited market supply.” The consequence is that many organizations end up relying on external talent to support your defenses. In fact, Deloitte points out that in 2026, 60% of cybersecurity personnel will be external. Seen from Spain, the phenomenon shares the same background, although with its own nuances. The United States remains one of the epicenters of the AI ​​industry and we cannot understand this trend without looking at what is happening there, but it is also not advisable to extrapolate its market dynamics as if they were identical to those of Europe. Other indicators come into play here: employment growth, relevant weight within the ICT sector and dependence on external profiles in many organizations. The conclusion, however, points in the same direction on both sides of the Atlantic: AI is forcing cybersecurity capabilities to be strengthened, not reduced. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana In Xataka | How often should we change ALL our passwords according to three cybersecurity experts

We had seen many Ebola outbreaks in central Africa, probably none like this

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After the crisis that we have experienced in Spain as a result of a strain of hantavirusthe news has spread to Africa and more specifically to the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to the Ebola virus outbreak in its strain known as Bundibugyo and that, unlike recent epidemics, it has neither a vaccine nor an approved treatment. An answer. The WHO itself has declared the outbreak in Central Africa as a public health emergency of international importance, and no wonder, since in the latest reports there are more than 800 suspected and confirmed cases. But also, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been settled with 180 deaths and the problem is that this virus has passed to Uganda. What makes this outbreak described by experts as a true “logistical nightmare” is not only the number of infections, but the nature of the enemy. The Achilles heel. When we think about Ebola and the medical advances made after the devastating 2014-2016 epidemic, we often refer to the Zaire ebolavirus. For that strain, science managed to develop highly effective vaccines at the time, but the new outbreak is being driven by the Bundibugyo strain, for which we do not have any pharmacological arsenal, since both viruses share only between 60-70% of their genetic material. That is, current vaccines are useless. In this way, without the possibility of vaccinating all people who have been in contact with a person who is infected to nip transmission in the bud, medical teams have been left without their most powerful containment tool. And although there are experimental vaccine candidates, WHO experts estimate that their production at scale for clinical trials could take between six and nine months. Its complexity. Added to the lack of medical arsenal is an extremely complex operational context, since the origin of the outbreak in the Ituri region was complicated by an alleged “super-spreader” event and by initial failures in diagnosis. And it is not because there is a lack of knowledge, but because the initial symptoms of Ebola are very non-specific, being fever, fatigue or muscle pain, so it can literally be anything. It is when the most serious symptoms of Ebola develop that this diagnosis is already considered, but sometimes it is too late. Furthermore, one of the diagnostic methods, such as the PCR test, is not widely available in the field as they are very expensive and complex techniques. We don’t see everything. Although we are informed that we are facing a major public health problem, it is possible that we are only facing the ‘tip of the iceberg’. Here, some experts point out that the underreporting of cases, added to the violence of armed groups in the region that prevents access for health workers, paints a scenario where isolation and contact tracing border on the impossible. We must keep in mind that access to the health system in these regions is quite limited, and that is why there may have been some deaths in the home environment without being reported because it has been confused with another endemic disease. And although the risk at a global level is low, the truth is that an immediate response is needed before the crisis takes on irreversible dimensions. Images | Gani Nurhakim National Institute of Allergy In Xataka | We believed we were prepared for a post-covid world. Hantavirus is the first serious test and the results are not optimistic

put an astronaut to “live” a year in orbit

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The Shenzhou 23 mission has been a success on its journey to Tiangongaccording to various Chinese media reports. In these, this milestone is noted as a great step forward in China’s race to the Moon. Certainly, each of these advances brings the Asian country closer to our satellite. However, it should be noted that the milestones achieved with this latest mission are rather achievements of the Chinese space race in general, and not so specific to lunar exploration. It is also worth noting that several records have been broken or are expected to be broken, but again these are particular records for this nation, not worldwide. All this indicates that they have the capacity of the great space powers, although much of what they are doing has already been done before. Three new taikonauts in space. This May 24, three taikonauts (the name by which Chinese astronauts are known in the West) they left with the help of a Long March rocket heading to the Tiangong space station. Docking with one of the station’s ports was carried out without problems 3.5 hours later. Two of the ship’s three crew members are expected to spend around 6 months in these facilities. The normal thing in these missions. However, one of them, which has not yet been specified, will break the record for spending a year in space. Background. There have already been other astronauts who have spent about a year in space. At NASA, the record is held by astronaut Frank Rubio, who spent 371 days aboard the International Space Station. Before him, at the top of the US space agency was Mark Vande Hei, with 355 days. However, both are far short of the 437 days Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent at the Russian Mir station. The crew. The three crew members of this Chinese mission are Zhu Yangzhu, Zhang Zhiyuan and Li Jiaying. The latter is the fourth female taikonaut and the first person from Hong Kong to travel to space. Before, she was a police inspector. More first times. The next mission to Tiangong will have a Pakistani astronaut on board, so firsts will continue to be achieved. Future experiments. The astronauts who have now arrived at the Chinese space station will carry out various experiments, related to medicine, materials science, fluid physics, biology and medicine. Highlights include those carried out by the crew member who will extend his stay up to a year, since he will be the one in charge of studying how it affects microgravity to the human body in long stays. It will also focus on the psychological effects of confinement and, in general, everything that could affect the health of the next lunar colonists. Target: the Moon. Of course China has its sights set on the Moon. In fact, with their Chang’e missions, they have done a very exhaustive study of our satellite. They have managed to map it, land on your hidden side and collect samples and return them to Earth for analysis. Even has been made to germinate a seed in a simulated biosphere, within the selenite territory. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has sufficient knowledge about the Moon and has also proven to have more than competent technologies. Their goal is to land on the moon in 2030. NASA’s is set for 2028, but everything can change. At the moment, China is advancing at a good pace in its space race and that, without a doubt, is great news. At the end of the day, we should see the space race as a goal of humanity, not so much as a race between countries. Images | CMSA In Xataka | The space race between the United States and China is, above all, a race to see who can spend the most money

One of the best science fiction series in history is animated, and today it returns to HBO Max with new episodes

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In 2013, Adult Swim premiered a series about an alcoholic scientist and his teenage grandson traveling the multiverse. ‘Rick and Morty‘ seemed like another hooligan animated series, but it became, for reasons that have a lot to do with being in the right place at the right time, into one of the most relevant television phenomena of the last two decades. The ninth season has just arrived HBO Maxand everything indicates that they are going to give us more of the same. Which in the case of ‘Rick and Morty’ is always excellent news. Season 7, released in 2023, was the first without Justin Roiland, one of the series’ co-creators. Adult Swim cut ties with him in January of that year following criminal domestic violence charges (ultimately dismissed) and the ‘Rick and Morty’ characters, voiced by him, were reassigned to other actors (and if you didn’t know it, it would be impossible for you to detect it). The public reaction was cold, and it ended up having the lowest score in the series’ history on Rotten Tomatoes. The eighth season, broadcast in 2025, was proof that the series could survive trauma. It started with 100% among critics and its public score reached 93%, which finally stabilized at 79%. A considerable improvement over the previous year and more in line with the series average. Now comes the time to confirm that, indeed, the series has overcome past traumas. And he does it in a big way: with the return of Evil Morty and with the introduction of a new cosmic entitythe Collective. Furthermore, this return is accompanied by other news: Warner Bros. is in the first stages of development of a feature film. Its possible director, Jacob Hair, has helmed several episodes since 2019 and is the current supervising director of the series. According to the co-creator of the series, Dan Harmon, the intention is to invest more money and make a 90-minute episode, no more, no less. It may not seem too ambitious, but let’s not forget that we are facing one of the best science fiction series of all time. In Xataka | Five years later, there is a Netflix series so well made that psychologists recommend it to understand mental health

We have all suspected that our cell phone is listening to us. The company that sold this technology has just recognized that it was a lie

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There are many people who are convinced that cell phones listen to everything we say. We have all had the same disturbing feeling when we see an ad for something we recently talked about with a friend or family member, but have never searched for on the internet. The most solid proof that they really listen to us was a leak from a company that sold a technology called “active listening” and it did exactly what you’re thinking. Well, it was all a big lie. what has happened. They count in Wired that the US Federal Trade Commission (FCT) has fined Cox Media Group $880,000 for deceiving its customers with its active listening technology. They have also fined two other companies, MindSift and 101 Digital Networks, $25,000 each. In total, $930,000 will be used to compensate businesses that were affected by this deception. What they sold. Cox Media Group claimed that its technology could capture conversations from cell phones, smart speakers, televisions and other devices. Then, using AI, they segmented the advertising based on what people said and also based on their location, which they also claimed to be able to obtain. Their excuse was that users had already agreed to be recorded by accepting the terms of service. The company didn’t have many scruples, just look at the slogan they used to sell the product: “Is it scary? Sure. Is it great for marketing? Without a doubt.” What it really was. According to the FCT, it was all a hoax. They were not able to listen through all those devices, nor could they know the location of people. What they did was buy generic email lists from data brokers and resold them for a price much higher than their real value. The FCT also notes that agreeing to generic terms of service does not constitute explicit consent to something as invasive as these recordings. Why it is important. We are surrounded by technology that has the potential to spy on us with microphones, not only mobile phones but speakers, headphones and even smart watches. Today has not been proven that cell phones listen to everything we say, but it is a very widespread belief and these companies decided not only to feed the conspiracy theory, but also to profit from it. The answer. When the cake was revealed, Cox Media Group attempted to place the blame on an unknown third-party vendor. Speaking to Wired, a company spokesperson said that “Our local marketing team relied on marketing materials provided by a third-party vendor about their product. We quickly removed the materials and stopped use of the product.” All three defendant companies admitted fault and agreed not to make false statements about their products in the future. Image | Xataka with Gemini In Xataka | Yes, the V16 beacons transmit your position in the event of an accident. No, the DGT cannot “spy” on you with them

From Cold War bunkers to bunkers wherever

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In 1961, Switzerland required by law that practically every new building incorporate access to nuclear shelters. Decades later, the country still has more places in bunkers than inhabitantsa European rarity that for years seemed like a paranoid exaggeration and that today many governments are beginning to look at with different eyes. Europe looks underground again. For decades, European bunkers were treated like uncomfortable relics of the Cold War, spaces buried under modern cities that survived converted into warehouses, parking lots, swimming pools or simple historical curiosities. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed radically that perception. Governments, architects, urban planners and citizens have returned to thinking in terms that seemed to have disappeared from the continent: shelter, civil protection, urban survival and the ability to resist prolonged bombings. The most striking thing is that Europe is not only rebuilding former military shelters; is starting to convert any space underground available in potential emergency infrastructure. Garages, subway stations, tunnels, basements or sports centers become part of a new defensive geography where the priority is no longer winning a war, but ensuring that cities can continue functioning under attack. Finland never stopped preparing. I remembered the new york times that while much of Europe dismantled its civil protection systems after the end of the Cold War, Finland decided to keep intact a culture of refuge deeply linked to its history with Russia. In Helsinki, thousands of underground spaces spread under the city can become operational shelters in just 72 hours. The most surprising thing is that many operate daily such as playgrounds, parking lots, swimming pools, concert halls or sports facilities. Finnish logic has always been clear: if another war comes, civil protection cannot be improvised. The Russian invasion of Ukraine made that mentality, for years seen as a kind of Nordic obsession inherited from the 20th century, come to light. seem almost prophetic. Suddenly, families who had never thought about shelters began asking where the nearest one was, architects began debating underground protection again, and European governments began to study the finnish model as if it were a practical manual on how to survive near Russia. Germany and discovery. Latest German turn reflects the extent to which the perception of war has changed in Europe. Berlin once had about 2,000 shelters public during the cold warbut today it only preserves a few hundred partially usable for a population of more than 80 million people. Reuters counted last week that the important thing about the new German plan is not only the investment of billions in civil protection, special vehicles or warning systems, but the implicit acceptance of an uncomfortable reality: the State no longer believes it is possible to guarantee universal refuge for the entire population. Instead of rebuilding huge networks of bunkers like those of the 20th century, Germany is opting for a much more more flexible and pragmatic based on mobile alerts, improvised shelters and rapid reaction capacity. The symbol of this new strategy is not an armored concrete door, but a notification on the mobile phone indicating to the citizen which is the nearest basement or station. The war in Ukraine changes the idea of ​​security. The Ukrainian experience has destroyed many Western certainties about modern warfare. For years, many European experts assumed that future conflicts would be technological, precise and limited, making large civil refuge infrastructures unnecessary. Ukraine showed exactly the opposite: massive attacks on cities, drones over residential areas, bombings of civil infrastructure and millions of people taking refuge in metro stations once again became part of the European landscape. That finding appears constantly in the German and Finnish debate. Architects who previously considered shelters obsolete recognize now that Russia has returned to Europe a form of war much closer to the classic bombings of the 20th century than to the surgical conflicts imagined after the end of the Cold War. The uncomfortable question. Behind the return of the bunkers there appears a politically explosive issue: that of who can protect themselves really if a war breaks out. Germany is beginning to publicly assume something that it avoided verbalizing for decades: there will never be enough places for everyone. Seen this way, the debate no longer revolves solely around building shelters, but about priorities, access and real response capacity. Who receives the alert first? Who manages to arrive on time? What happens to the elderly, sick or people without mobility? Even during the Cold War, European shelters could only cover a limited part of the population, but then they worked too as a political symbol: They represented the idea that the State remained capable of protecting its citizens even under nuclear threat. Today that illusion is weakening and civil protection is beginning to be understood more as social resilience than as an absolute guarantee of survival. The underground returns to the board. Ultimately, the Berlin case sums up this transformation perfectly. Under the German capital there is still a gigantic network of tunnels, bomb shelters, adapted stations and military structures built between the Third Reich and the Cold War. For years they were archaeological or tourist spaces managed by historical associations as Berliner Unterwelten. Now some are beginning to be partially reconditioned for real civil protection uses. The significant thing is that no one is talking about resisting a total nuclear exchange, but rather about surviving to drone attacksconventional missiles or localized bombings similar to those seen in Ukraine. Europe is thus entering a scene unprecedented since the end of the 20th century: the return of shelter mentalitynot as an ideological symbol of opposing blocs, but as a practical response to the feeling that war has once again become a tangible possibility within the continent. Image | GetArchive In Xataka | There is a 50-ton “nuclear reactor” in a bunker in Fuenlabrada: it has been donated by Amancio Ortega In Xataka | A secret Nazi bunker in Germany hides the most sought-after treasure on the entire planet: hundreds of tons of rare earths

China already has a GPU that competes with Nvidia’s RTX 3060. The bad thing is that it arrives five years late and worse

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The china crusade for achieving the complete independence in the field of semiconductors has taken a new step. The problem is that this step has not been as promising as we expected, and in fact it makes it clear that today the Asian giant is still far away of the semiconductor manufacturers that dominate the market. The alternative for gamers that promised. Lisuan Tech (砺算科技), a Chinese company dedicated to manufacturing semiconductors and solutions such as graphics cards for the end-user market, has launched its new GPU for the consumer market, the LX-7G100. The price and expectations. The official starting price is 3,299 yuan (about 420 euros at the exchange rate), and at that price the equivalent graphics card should be at least an RTX5060 Ti, which is usually below 400 euros. What we get in performance is far from that. Performance tests of the LX-7G100 typically fell well short of the RTX 3060.Source: NotebookCheck. Worse than the RTX 3060. The problem is that those who have had access to this graphics card and have evaluated their benefits They have realized that this manufacturer’s GPU is very far from that price/performance estimate. In fact, it usually competes more with the RTX 3060 of 2021, but even with it it loses: it offers approximately 65% of the performance from its rival NVIDIA. Good specifications. On paper, the LX-7G100 should offer more performance. It has a 7G106 GPU, 12 GB of GDDR6 memory and decent bandwidth, for example. However, it does not have truly mature support for DX12 and does not offer an alternative to Nvidia’s DSLL or AMD’s FSR. When used in modern games, performance plummets due to rendering glitches and code translation bottlenecks. Not even for AI. At Lisuan Tech they have also tried to bet on their ability to run local and private AI models. However, most of the development of AI projects is linked to Nvidia’s CUDA architecture. It is true that the Chinese company has its own compatibility layer to translate PyTorch and CUDA code to its native architecture, but the loss of efficiency is notable, which makes inference or local model training tasks become too slow compared to those allowed by Nvidia graphics. difficult to compete. Lisuan Technology announced the first milestones of this launch a year ago. The rumors they indicated that its G100 graphics processor is manufactured by SMIC with a 6nm photolithographic process that complies with US restrictions. An attempt was made to launch in 2023, but Lisuan had financial problems and a capital injection of $27.7 million managed to keep the project going. It remains to be seen if sales ultimately follow through, although certainly its price/performance ratio makes it attractive only to audiences like the Chinese, who may have more difficulties accessing models like the Nvidia RTX. In Xataka | The end of Nvidia in China seems to be very near: its current market share is 0%

They detect if you are wearing your seat belt, if you are on your cell phone or if you make illegal turns

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Pamplona is going to significantly strengthen its traffic surveillance system starting next June. Although we recently knew the setup of the new section radar of the AP-68which by the way is the second longest in Spain with more than 30 km of distance covered, now the Pamplona City Council will launch four radars with AI capable of hunting down practically any driving violation, from carrying your cell phone in your hand to driving without a seat belt, jumping a red light or changing lanes improperly. Automation. Until now, these types of violations depended on traffic officers. The arrival of these radars automates this surveillance and, above all, it will work as a pilot test in the country, because if they end up giving good results, it is reasonable to think that we will see this technology spreading to other Spanish cities and roads in the coming months. What do they detect?. The new devices incorporate a color camera and a license plate reading system that, combined with AI technology, identify a whole range of illegalities while driving. According to the City Council, they will be able to detect: Use of mobile phone while driving. Drivers without seat belts. Traffic in the opposite direction and prohibited turns. Improper lane changes. Running a red light. Do not respect zebra crossings or stop in yellow-marked areas. Added to all this is a speed control system, with a range that goes from 10 to 320 km/h. The objective according to the City Council is to “monitor compliance with traffic rules, regulate speed and avoid accidents in the city”, as share from Navarra News. What are they like?. The gray cabins are something that has been left behind on these new radars. These are mounted high on staffs, medians or gantries, and withstand temperatures between -30 and 70 degrees without the need for a protective casing. Another important novelty is that they cover several lanes at the same time and bidirectionally (both approaching and receding vehicles) and allow different speed limits to be configured for each lane. Where will they be installed?. Although the idea is that rotate between the eleven cabins that are spread throughout the city, the first planned locations are Army Avenue, Gipuzkoa Avenue next to the Oblatas Bridge, Sadar Street and Paseo de Santa Lucía. The fact that they rotate is precisely designed so that the driver never knows for sure if the cabin in front of him is working or not. Between the lines. Each radar It has cost the City Council 20,000 euros (VAT apart), an investment that the City Council considers justified by the number of infractions that a single device is capable of detecting. In addition, it should be taken into account that a device of this type can fine for behaviors that previously required the presence of an agent or were easier to avoid. So it is quite likely that they will end up recovering the investment based on fines in a short time. Before starting to operate, the radars must pass the approval process of the Spanish Metrology Center, a step that the City Council hopes to resolve in time to activate them during June. Cover image | Google Maps In Xataka | In its plan to make Citroën relevant, Stellantis has confirmed the rumors: a new Citroën 2 CV is arriving

what SpaceX needs to figure out before thinking about the Moon

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Finally, after several postponements and even a scrub During the countdown, flight 12 of the SpaceX Starship has been able to take place. Elon Musk’s company has considered it a success, taking into account its complexity and everything that could have failed. However, it should be noted that it has been a partial success. The performance of the Starship S39 has been very good, but the Super Heavy B19 rocket has had some incidents. So many that they end up disintegrating upon re-entry into the atmosphere. Logically, this implies that there is a lot of work to do before the next flight. Which went well. The launch occurred successfully at 22:30 UTC (00:30 Spanish peninsular time) on Friday, May 22. It was achieved reach a thrust of 8,240 tons, double that achieved by the SLS rocket that NASA is using in the Artemis program. Even the acceleration was greater than expected. The separation of stages occurred properly and the ship fulfilled what was expected, landing in the Indian Ocean as planned. The release of Starlink mockups traveling as payload on Starship was also properly carried out. What went wrong. One of the biggest innovations of Starship Flight 12 was the introduction of version 3 of its Raptor engines. There were a lot of hopes for them, but some have not worked as well as could be expected. The first failure occurred 1 minute and 42 seconds after takeoff, when one of the outer ring engines of the Super Heavy rocket shut down. This consists of 3 central motors, an outer ring with 19 motors and an intermediate one with 11. The failure in the outer ring was already a relevant incident, but it was not the worst. The separation of the two stages occurred at 2 minutes and 30 seconds and precisely there it was seen how the ship’s 6 engines partially burned the surface of the rocket. At that point, the Super Heavy’s engines began to turn on, but some did not activate. 8 seconds later, one of the engines in the intermediate ring exploded, affecting several of the engines surrounding it. With the entire engine system damaged, only 5 of the intermediate ring engines were ignited during the return burn, so the rocket was unable to brake properly during reentry, which occurred at 1,450 kilometers per hour. The rocket disintegrated and what was left of it impacted the ocean 300 kilometers from the place planned by SpaceX. There were also failures on the ship. Although most of the failures occurred in the Super Heavy rocket, there was also an incident with the engines of the Starship ship. This consists of 3 vacuum engines in the center and 3 sea level engines around it. The difference between them is that those in the center are prepared to operate in conditions of spatial vacuum. Since there is no atmospheric pressure, They can have larger nozzleswhich allow greater thrust with the same fuel. On Starship Flight 12, one of those 3 engines shut down early, so to compensate, it was necessary to keep the sea level engines on for longer than planned. At least it was a mistake that SpaceX engineers were able to correct. Most of the failures were concentrated in the engines And now what? As SpaceX has pointed out, this has been a partial success. There have been many points of the mission that have gone perfectly, but it is clear that there is a lot of room for improvement. To begin with, some questions should be asked, such as whether the shielding system that the engines previously had had prevented the explosion that caused the rocket to disintegrate. In version 2, the external piping system It left the engine so exposed that each of them had individual shielding. In version 3 this shielding has been considered unnecessary when improving that space plumbing system. However, it is clear that it will be a point to review. On the other hand, it will be necessary to study step by step the on and off systems that have not worked properly. Next challenges. On upcoming flights, SpaceX will have to meet several challenges. The first will be to demonstrate the possibility of doing an orbital ignition. It was planned to fire one of the engines individually in orbit, as it is a key step for orbital insertion and controlled returns to Earth. Unfortunately, given the problems that were occurring with the engines, the plan was finally cancelled. On the other hand, it remains a challenge rocket recoverywithout disintegrating. And, finally, we will have to try to make these vehicles quickly reusable, as the Falcon 9 is now. In short, Starship flight 12 has been a success, but there is a lot of work ahead. SpaceX should not rest on its laurels if it wants to stay alive your lunar dream. Image | SpaceX In Xataka | SpaceX is preparing the largest IPO in history: the fact that it is doing so right now is no coincidence

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