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It already exceeds 8,000 million in income and manages to be profitable

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Amazon managed Your corporate blog. That is 13% more than the previous year, marking a new record since its arrival in the country in 2010. But the most notable is the turn in its profitability. The Spanish subsidiaries 36 million losses in 2023 were passed to 1.5 million benefits. Its main logistics division, Amazon Spain Fulfillment, multiplied by ten its benefit to 19.2 million, while Amazon Road Transport quintupled it to 10.45 million. This growth is mainly driven by its holy Trinity: Online store. Cloud services. Digital advertising. Why is it important. The technological giant has established itself as one of the ten largest employers in Spain with 28,000 permanent workers, being the company that has created the most stable employment in the last five years. Its total fiscal contribution exceeded 1.3 billion euros, distributed among more than 400 million in direct taxes (mainly social security and companies tax) and more than 900 million in indirect taxes (VAT and withholdings). The panoramic. The company has invested 4,500 million in Spain during 2024, 32% more than the previous year, with special focus on logistics infrastructure and data centers. Amazon has 40 logistics facilities throughout the country and has announced an investment of 15.7 billion to expand its Cloud region in Aragon. Its template reached 28,000 employees, adding 3,000 positions for 2024. Yes, but. Although Amazon speaks of a fiscal contribution of 1,300 million, its taxation for benefits in Spain is still completely broken down. The company emphasizes that it paid more than 400 million in direct taxes, but this figure mainly includes contributions to social security and other taxes, without specifying how strictly corresponds to the Corporation Tax. In detail. The greatest growth occurred in its technological areas: the Data Services subsidiary increased income by 60%, and the audiovisual division, 55.7%. Amazon Data Services, which manages data centers, received an injection of 500 million to expand its infrastructure in Aragon. Amazon Digital Spain, responsible for Prime videohe invoiced 312 million, almost doubleing his benefit. Amazon Online Spain, dedicated to advertising, multiplied its benefit for ten to 6.3 million. And now what. Amazon still does not reveal the specific income of your online store and AWS In Spain, when operating these areas through luxembourg branches. It is estimated that these operations generate about 4,650 million euros in Spain, approximately 58% of the total business, but its results do not break down with the same transparency as the subsidiaries constituted in the country. Outstanding image | Adrian Sulyok (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | I have downloaded all my Amazon data and I have learned a lesson: it is too easy to buy online

500 million years of evolution separate us from sea stars, but there is something that has not changed so much: our appetite

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Hormones are molecules that exert the functions of messengers in our body. They take part in a large number of physiological processes, among which are the food and digestion of the food we consume. Among them, we know several hormones that regulate appetite and satiety. Evolutionary History A new study has analyzed The evolutionary history of bombsin, a hormone capable of transmitting the signal of satiety to our brain. This hormone had already been detected in some species of vertebrates and we know that it is capable of exercising this function in humans. Now we have found the genes that encode these hormones in very distant species evolutionarily, such as sea stars. Bombsin Bombsine was discovered in 1971, not in humans but in an amphibian, the belly toad fire (Bombina Bombina). It is a small peptide similar to those used by our own body to transmit (among other “messages”) the sign that we have satiated, molecules such as glucagon, the gastric inhibitor peptide (GIP), or the peptide similar to glucagon-1 (LPG-1). The researchers who studied the bombsin verified that, by injecting it into mammals, this also caused a feeling of satiety. This caused the subjects to reduce the amount of foods they consumed and space their intakes more over time. Needle in a haystack. In his study, the team responsible for New Research, began to study the genomes of different invertebrate animals until it ran into genes capable of encoding hormones similar to bombsin. And they found them in several equinoderms species (Echinodermata), As for example in the common sea star (Asterias Rubens), but also in hedgehogs and sea cucumbers. “It was like finding a needle in a haystack,” explained in a press release Maurice Elphick, co -author of the study, “but finally we discover the genes that encode a neurohormone similar to the stars of sea stars and their relatives.” Arbn.After that, the team studied the function of this hormone, which they called Arbn. Through mass spectrometry, the equipment was able to determine the molecular structure of the compound, thanks to which they could synthesize it and submit it to test. Thus they found that the hormone had an impact on the gastric processes of sea stars. “When I put Arbn, I saw that it caused contraction in the stomach of the sea star,” Weiling Huang addedCo -author of the study. “This, Sig would, that Arbn could be involved in stimulating the stomach retraction when the sea star stops eating. And that is precisely what I saw. When I injected Arbn into the sea stars (…) it made the stomach retract (…). What is more, arbn also delayed the beginning of the food, since the stars injected with arb those that water was injected. “ The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Making historians. The study gives us new clues about how our digestive system and its tools to control its internal processes evolved. A track that allows us to ride ourselves 500 million years ago, when the last common ancestor of humans and sea stars inhabited the earth. But the finding also has significance for the pharmacological industry. In recent years they have seen the rise of various treatments based on hormone analogous substances such as LPG-1 or GIP. Compounds such as semaglutida (better known by its commercial name Ozempic) or the tirzepatida (Tirzepatida) were born as diabetes treatments but achieved success as losing weight formulas. These compounds emulate the hormones that our body secretes behind meals, hormones that fulfill the function of communicating to organs such as the pancreas that our digestive process is underway but that also transmit to the brain the message that we have satiated our appetite. Compounds such as Bombsine, Arbn, or similar could perhaps be used also In this context. In Xataka | Japanese researchers have studied how to eat less. Your verdict is extremely simple: eat more slowly Image | Hans Hillewaert, CC by-SA 4.0

The difficult thing has not been to build a yacht of 80 meters and 200 million dollars. It has been to take it to the sea without destroying it

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Imagine living in a quiet town near Rotterdam, and when you look at your window you see a colossus for you, 14 meters wide and with the height of a three -storey building. It is what has happened (once again) to the inhabitants of the quiet town of Alphan (Netherlands). According to published the local media AD Those who have approached one of the channels that are going through the population have seen how A 200 million superyate of dollars Lawrence Strollowner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1 and head of Fernando Alonso, juggled to reach the sea sailing through narrow channels and raffling bridges and all kinds of obstacles in his odyssey. The megayate odyssey Feadship is one of the world’s main manufacturers in the world. From their shipyards in Aalsmeer they have left colossi like the Launchpad by Mark Zuckerbergwith 118 meters of length. All of them have had to go through that intricate journey of narrow channels, curves that test the expertise of the engineers involved in the transfer and several traffic cuts in the populations through which they pass. This type of operations are not simple. They require millimeter planning and the perfect execution of each step. Any calculation or maneuver error could have ended up damaging the helmet of a vessel valued at more than 200 million dollars or, worse, putting people’s safety at risk. The epic odyssey of PROJECT 714production name that the Stroll Yate has received, was recorded on video for the Dutch Yachting Channel. Some sections of the transfer were especially tense, such as the pass There were hardly a few centimeters of margin so that the superyate helmet scratches its pillars. The tight turns in the channels, as a chicane in an F1 circuit as in which their owner competes, also contributed their touch of tension during the hypnotic transfer to high seas. Project 714 Leaving the shipyards When even money can pave the way PROJECT 714 is neither the first nor the last supereyate that makes this journey, but its complexity reaches the extreme when it comes to large vessels such as the commission of the owner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1, with an estimated heritage in 3.8 billion dollars, according to Forbes. The journey of Koru de Jeff Bezos From the Oceanco shipyards in Alblasserdam, it was a challenge the exit to the high seas through some channels similar to those that has had to travel the Spery of Stroll. On that occasion, the Dutch builder had to face A serious problem: A historical drawbridge built in 1927 was not high enough for the 70 -meter masts of the Koru to pass under its structure, so the construction company proposed to temporarily dismantle the bridge so that the sailboat could cross it. According to The published by the local medium Truuwthe refusal of the neighbors forced the refusal of the City Council, so the builder had no choice but make the journey without masts to complete the construction of the Koru in the shipyards that the company has in Greenport. A floating mansion Ad picked up some of the reactions of Alphan’s neighbors who came to see how Project 714 slid over the waters of their narrow channels. “This is quite impressive,” “is not normal”, “the closer, more impressive” or “we are in first class” are some of the comments that raised in its path the impressive mole of steel and aluminum. The luxurious yacht is designed to be A floating mansion destined for leisure and It has five covers, A beach club with pool in the stern, an sharp bow cover that could well host a helipad and wooden floors in all covers. When being in manufacturing phase, Feadship does not give many details about his Interior equipment and finishessomething that will be addressed after overcoming the navigation tests that it now faces. Which He has shared It is that the yacht has a more efficient diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system that reduces vibration and improve comfort on board. In Xataka | Ultrararicos change the ground for a superyte during the summer: so are some of these floating mansions In Xataka | Keeping a mooring supereate comes out very expensive. Some researchers have a proposal for the rich: donate them to science Image | Feadship, Aston Martin F1

They have lost more than 208,000 million in one day

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The already turbulent business of business and finance has been shaken by the earthquake of the tariffs that the US imposed on all the countries of the world, regardless of whether its only inhabitants They were penguins and seals. The immediate consequences has been a general fall in the main stock markets, which has especially affected the titans of technology and luxury, eliminated from a stroke more than 208,000 million dollars of their balances in a single day, According to estimates Bloomberg. According to Forbeslosses for the 3,000 most important millionaires reached 270,000 million. The news of the new US tariffs caused An earthquake in Wall Streetcausing the S&P 500 index to be left 4.8% and the Nasdaq Composite, centered on technology, 6%. The China response To those tariffs Nor is he helping to your recovery. Losers: Technological and Luxury Titans The disruption of investors that caused “the day of liberation” and Trump tariffs His main victim was charged in Mark Zuckerberg, whose estimate of his fortune has been reduced in 17.9 billion dollars In his single day. The value of the goal shares collapsed by 9%. It should be noted that Zuckerberg had successfully raffled the latest stock market crises, and while most of the millionaires who had donated to Donald Trump’s investiture, They lost about 209,000 millionGoal remained out of losses. The impact caused by Trump’s tariffs has been so great that he has not been able to dodge it. Jeff Bezos, is another of the technological millionaires he showed Your support to Trumpbut that has also been harmed from this stock market debacle. The session closed with Amazon’s shares, the main source of wealth for Bezos, falling into more than 9% in its price. That fall has meant eliminating some 16,000 million dollars Of the accounting balances of Bezos. Larry Ellison and Michael Dell didn’t get left behind in Milmillionaire losses either. The companies of both millionaires have a great dependence on hardware processors and components manufactured outside the USwhich caused investors to withdraw their money from their companies. Oracle’s shares fell 5.8%, while Dells left almost 19%, causing them losses of 9.9 billion and 9.4 billion dollars respectively. Interestingly, one of the least affected by the tariff storm was Elon Musk, the already altered Shareholders of Tesla They lived another day of falls In the price of the actions of the electric car manufacturer, but its fall was “only” 5%, which resulted in a loss of 8,700 million dollars In the estimate of Elon Musk’s fortune, which remains the richest person in the world with a heritage of 378.1 billion dollars. For his part, Bernard Arnault, The King of French luxuryhe suffered a decrease in his heritage of 8,600 million dollars After the fall suffered by LVMH’s shares in almost 6%. The holding company to which brands such as Louis Vuitton, Moët Chandon or Tiffanys & Co are in a serious problem since much of its brand portfolio manufactures its products in Europe. In Xataka | Only 15 people are part of the “100,000 million club”: it is 0.5% of 1% of the Milmillonaria elite In Xataka | The best paid Spanish manager in the world does not work in a great technological: sells “sugary water”

400 million euros for the electric car and the same as always

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The Government has confirmed the renewal of the MOVES III PLAN. More than two months after Congress knocked down the decree boum in which Aids for the purchase of electric cars were collectedthe Executive has managed to extend the plan that already existed and make it retroactive. It will be available until the funds are exhausted on December 31, 2025 The latter is important because it does not leave any buyer that he has acquired his electric car in 2025 behind. Remember that the approval of a new Moves Aids continued to be approved. From here, uncertainty. To start because, adding those days of 2025, The approved aids exceeded the budgeted amount. With the successive extensions, 1,550 million euros were available but the requests added 1,579 million euros. And, secondly, because from the beginning it has been ensured that all purchases made in January, February and March of an electric car that will enter the Moves Plan (less than 45,000 euros before the application of VAT) were going to be delivered to buyers. In spite Xataka different companies. Now we know that the program continues in the same terms we had with a Temporary extension of 400 million of euros. A program that can support at a time when the registrations of this type of technology have triggered. Aids that have the challenge of being more agile The aid of the Moves III Plan, which now recover, have the following format for the purchase of a tourism: Electric and electrical car of extended autonomy (more than 90 kilometers of electric autonomy): 4,500 euros of minimum aid and 7,000 euros of help if a vehicle with more than seven years of seniority is accused. Plug -in hybrid (between 30 and 90 kilometers of electrical autonomy: 2,500 euros of minimal aid and 5,000 euros if a vehicle with more than seven years old is accused. Fuel battery (without minimal autonomy): 4,500 euros of minimum aid and 7,000 euros of help if a vehicle is accused more than seven years old. These amounts They increase by 10% When the task of the vehicle is taxi, it is purchased by a person with reduced mobility or in a municipality with less than 5,000 inhabitants. In addition, with the extension of the Moves III Plan, the 15% dismissal in the income statement for the purchase of an electric car (with a maximum of 3,000 euros. The fall in aid had arrived at the worst time because the market gave symptoms that this technology was taken off. In fact, with figures from the first quarter of the yearWe know that the electric car has grown by 64.22%, until reaching 22,028 registrations. But, above all, it has been 6.66% market share, which is a great advance for previous years where it did not pass or cost to reach 5%. It remains to know how many of these registrations were already closed before the fall in January of the Moves III Plan and are being registered now. With the registrations of the month of April we should verify If the fall of the Moves III Plan was leaving a lot of hangover in the market or purchases have continued. What we will not have is a change in the bureaucracy of aid. Asked for this, Sara Aagesen, Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, has assured that He has worked to expedite processes But aid will continue to be processed by the Autonomous Communities. The current process has been repeatedly criticized by manufacturers and buyers since the delivery of aid was delayed to the point that some clients did not see the entry of them Until more than three years old. More than a year ago than The Government promised To change this and deliver the aid as a discount that we would find when buying the car. At the moment, it has not happened. Photo | Renault In Xataka | All aid you can request for the purchase of an electric car

Byd broke the barrier of 100,000 million dollars of income in 2024. It is an unknown milestone for Tesla

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The year 2024 was marked by a huge fight between the two great giants of electric cars. Byd and Tesla played the market with a disparate luck until closing with a technical draw. The last chapter is signed by its financial results. Sales. Byd put 4.27 million cars on the market in 2024. The figure is far from 1.79 million cars delivered by Tesla. Elon Musk’s company He failed to exceed the figure of the previous year (1.81 million units) for the first time in the last ten years. However, Tesla sold more electric cars than byd. Although the Chinese company is famous for its electric cars, the truth is that in 2024 it sold 1.76 million cars, according to Financial Times. The figure It has been ratified In the presentation of results that the Chinese company has carried out last week. Not just EV. That is, Byd has sold almost 2.5 million more cars than Tesla but has managed to enroll plug -in hybrids. In China, plug and electrical hybrids total in the same category (New energy vehicles) But they are not the same. In China, the aid for the purchase of electric cars also add up for new energy vehicles. That is why in Byd they focused 15 years ago. Recently, the company has celebrated break the 10 million units barrier of new energy cars manufactured. To reach the first five million it took 15 years but for the subsequent five million it has only taken fifteen months. A Sorpasso. If we talk about electric cars, BYD has lacked very little to overcome Elon Musk’s company last year. Everything indicates that it will meet the objectives this year although the forecasts point to Sell ​​5.5 million units of new energy cars in 2025. It has not been specified how many would be electric. If these figures are fulfilled, Byd will fight with Stellantis for being the fifth largest car manufacturer in the world. Would reach the figure selling only plug -in hybrid models and electric cars, which does not do any of the rivals that in 2024 he had above (Stellantis, General Motors, Hyundai/Kia, Volkswagen and Toyota). And another already confirmed. If we take into account how 2025 started for Tesla, we can expect Byd to exceed those of Elon Musk in electric. However, in 2024 he already advanced in another equally important parameter: income. Last week he confirmed that they shot over the 107,000 million dollars. The Chinese company thus broke a barrier that Tesla has not overcome so far. The American company stayed last year at 97.7 billion dollars in its income. The prospects for the Chinese company are even more ambitious for 2025, I have the launch of its new products. Without loosening. In 2025, Byd does not plan to lift the foot of the accelerator. The company has begun to deploy loaders who promise 400 kilometers recharges in five minutes. For the moment, Only two of your cars They can carry this power but expected to add new models, especially those of greatest cost. And to this we must add that he recently confirmed that he would put his eye of God in the street (the most advanced driving aid functions) in all his cars, regardless of its price. It is a missile to the company’s flotation line that wants to get an economic performance of it and see how competition gives it. New horizons. In addition to the above, Byd also has a lot to win because it has new markets in April. In front of Tesla, which has four models (And one of them is only sold in the United States)Byd continues to find a hole for its plug -in hybrids and its electric. Having combustion engines in their wallet allows them break in Europe And, above all, in countries where The electric car is less developed. Despite Do not sell in the United Stateswait in 2025 Sell ​​800,000 units outside Chinawhich means duplicating the numbers of 2024. And the battle for China. To all of the above, it must be added that Tesla’s performance in China is being very bad in these first months of 2025. Byd has reached a point where accumulates a 15% market share In sales. Of the total sales, not only of the new energy models. Tesla, however, is in free fall in the market. To the point that in February 2024 a little more than 30,000 units enrolled. It did not reflect such a low figure since July 2022, according to CNEV Post. China, the world’s largest electric car market, does not seem the ideal place to suffer with sales if you sell exclusively electric cars. Photo | Byd and Tesla In Xataka | The electric car is sweeping so much in China that the natural step is already raised: stop calling it “electric”

Volkswagen lost 6.7 million with each one who sold

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On the Paseo de la Fame of the luxury supercoches, there is a star reserved for a car that, although their wealthy buyers had to put on the table 1.7 million dollars to remove it from the dealership, every time a unit was sold, its manufacturer lost 6.7 million dollars: The Bugatti Veyron. Bugatti Veyron: A luxury and speed icon The Bugatti Veyron He was born in 2005 of one Ambitious idea: Create the faster, powerful and luxurious car in the world. And what if they got it. Ferdinand Piëch, the visionary architect of the current Volkswagen group and grandson of Ferdinand Porsche himself. The passion for speed and luxury was carried in the DNA. This supercar mounted one of the engines that has given the most joys to Bugatti. It’s about Your brutal W16 of 8.0 liters and four turbos, with which it was able to accelerate as a rocket and break cut speed records above 406 km/h. This figure became almost a demand for The desire for “revenge” of the brand for a speed record in Le Mans. The name of the Veyron also closely linked to Le Mans’s career, since he honors Bugatti’s pilot and engineer Pierre Veyronwhich in 1939 won the 24 hours of Le Mans with one of the brands of the brand. The brand took Six years to develop from the Veyron for the challenge of implementing an engine capable of developing 1,001 hp of power and 1,400 nm of touch. To keep the temperature of such a beast at bay, engineers had to integrate 10 radiators. The exclusivity of the Bugatti Veyron was not only noticed when paying the 1.7 million dollars that cost Each unit. Each game of tires, especially Designed for the Veyron For Michelin, it cost the whopping $ 38,000 and had to replace every 4,000 km. On the track and maximum speed, the life of the tires was limited to about 15 minutes before disintegrating. Something that would rarely do, since the 106 liters of their deposit gave for 12 minutes. Without a doubt, a car with maintenance Far from the reach of many pockets. The Veyron was not just speed. It was also extreme luxury. Every detail, from materials to labor, was of the highest quality. Having a Veyron was like having a work of art on wheels, a demonstration that you could afford the best of the best. Aspire to One of the special editions Del Veyron was already another level, and supposed to pay more than 2.7 million for some of them. A ruinous business for Volkswagen But here comes the surprising part: despite its millionaire sales price, Volkswagen lost money with every Veyron who sold. And not little, precisely. Such and as they counted in Technology.orgthe financial research firm of Wall Street Bernstein Research published a report in which they assured that the Volkswagen group lost about 6.24 million dollars for each Bugatti Veyron that was sold. However, later the authors of that report admitted that this figure should be taken cautiously because it was based on approximate estimates. Paradoxically, the explanation of this financial fiasco is given by its engineering and design success. Volkswagen did not spare on expenses to create the perfect car and for it They invested 1,620 million of dollars in their development. Last prototype of the Bugatti Veyron The negative part is that Bugatti only sold 450 units of his Veyron in the 10 years he was on sale, so the investment in R&D was higher than the brand recovered selling cars, which was a financial fiasco. However, although in absolute terms, the development effort of the Veyron was greater than the income of its sale, the technology that was developed for that jewel of engineering then served as the basis for all A supercoches lineage. Its legacy has served to knock down all the speed records until it reaches 490.48 km/h that reached the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ In 2019, such and as he collected Car and Driver. Volkswagen was willing to assume those losses because he wanted to demonstrate his ability to create the Best Support Support in the World. Although, the Veyron was not a financial success in itself, it managed to position Bugatti as a reference brand on the map of luxury supercoches. A “failure” that, in the end, turned out to be a great triumph, although very expensive. In Xataka | Bugatti has found a new reef: his clients are spent on average 500,000 euros on extras to customize his car In Xataka | They are founders and ultra -ups, but they have not always driven luxury supercoches: a review of the cars of the Tech millionaires Image | Bugatti

The James Webb has found a galaxy when the universe was 330 million years old. Hide an entire enigma

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The immense capacity of the James Webb space telescope (JWST) to see the confines of the observable universe also allows us to see how our universe was billions of years ago. Recall that, the finitude of the speed of light implies that what we see further in space is also further in time, which makes JWST a kind of time machine. JADES-GS-Z13-1. The James Webb has detected again the light emitted by a very distant and therefore ancient galaxy. The telescope has captured the appearance of Jades-GS-Z13-1 as was 330 million years after big Bang. So old and distant is that its observation implies a new enigma: the enormous density of the universe in that era should prevent its observation billions of years later. And light was made. The original universe was a dark place. If we go back enough, we will reach an era in which the universe was too dense for the light emanating from its particles to travel the space. The cosmos cooled as it expanded, so, when the photons had space to move around, there were no particles to issue them. The thing changed when hydrogen atoms began to join to form the first stars and galaxies when the universe I was a few million years old. In this long process it is called reionization, a byloys in which hydrogen clouds were reactivated and emitted new light. Even in this context, the universe was dense enough to part of the radiation of these first galaxies was overshadowed by a dense layer of neutral hydrogen. This is the case of Lyman-Alfa or Lyman-α. Redshift 13. The team studied the luminous spectrum of the galaxy to estimate its red shift or Redshift. The expansion of the universe means that, in the long run, the frequency of the light emitted by this galaxy is reduced, that is, the universe, when expanding stretches the electromagnetic waves as if it were a magnet. This causes the visible light to store towards the red tones and to the infrared after long trips. The level at which the light comes “stretched”, its value Redshiftallows us to estimate the distance at which the galaxy is found that the broadcast. The observations made from the JWST Nircam instrument allowed the team estimate value Redshift of 12.9 (either z= 12.9) For this galaxy, but to confirm this value, the team decided to study the complete spectrum through the Nirspec instrument (Near-Infrared Spectrgraph), also aboard the space telescope. It turned out that they were infrastiming their distance, which was closer to z= 13. Lyman-α. However, the spectrum study caused the team to detect something strange in this galaxy, at a specific point of the spectrum, the Lyman-α radiation lamade, a type of electomagnetic emission associated with hydrogen atoms. The broadcast captured by James Webb’s instruments was much more intense than it should according to current cosmological models. The details of the study have been published In an article In the magazine Nature. Two possible explanations. In his article, the team speculate with possible explanations To this anomaly. The first involves the possibility that the stars of the galaxy, which would have been some of the earliest in the universe, would have created a “ionized gas bubble” around the galaxy. This possibility would imply that the primal stars would have been “more massive, hotter and more luminous” than the stars formed in later stages of the universe. This possibility would give us new clues about the enigmatic population of stars known as Population III and that represents precisely these early stars of the universe. The second possibility implies the existence of a supermassive black hole in the center of an active galactic nucleus. In Xataka | These real images were unthinkable before the Webb Telescope: they are planets orbiting other stars to 130 light years Image | ESA/WEBB, NASA, STSCI, CSA, JADES COLLLABORATION, BRANT ROBERTSON (UC SANTA CRUZ), BEN JOHNSON (CFA), SANDRO TACCHELLA (Cambridge), Phill Cargile (CFA), J. Witstok, P. Jakobsen, A. Pagan (STSCI), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

NASA has cut 420 million dollars following Doge’s guidelines. It is Elon Musk’s favorite number

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NASA has announced a 420 million dollar cut in consulting contracts and other suppliers. It is a strangely familiar number. A cut commanded by Doge. Although NASA has not given many details, the contracts to be cut are considered “redundant” or “misaligned with the essential priorities” of the agency, following the guidelines of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), the auditor body created by Donald Trump and headed by Elon Musk. From canceled contracts, the largest cut comes from the NASA socio -economic application and data center, valued at about 30 million dollars, although with an effective savings of 19.4 million. Other of the confirmed cancellations are four agreements of 15 million dollars each with the firms of consulting Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, Guidehouse and McKinsey & Co. The termination of these and other contracts will mean a saving of 420 million dollars for NASA. Elon Musk’s favorite number. There is an extraordinary coincidence in this matter and it is Elon Musk’s love for number 420. The founder of Spacex He likes to remember which was born 69 days after April 20 (4/20, in American format). But the number 420 became more present in his life since a club was smoked during the Joe Rogan podcast. “420” It is a reference to the “time of smoking marijuana”, 4 and 20 in the afternoon. For Musk also represents the day that He withdrew the verified blue check to X users who had it for free since the time of Twitter (04/20/2023). Wave First starship in history to be stacked (Booster 4 + Ship 20). Or one of the most transcendental tweets of his career: when he announced that I was going to privatize Tesla at a price of $ 420 per share. NASA scientists are worried. While only consulting cuts have transcended, the scientific community that depends on the space agency is concerned about the possibility of even greater or layoffs (of which NASA, for now, for now only He has seen 23 for the closure of three offices). Although less affected than diversity programs, Doge cuts also focus on branches of health, climate and natural resources, which NASA investigates. In addition, it is rumored that the 2026 budget for the agency’s scientific programs could be drastically reduced (up to 50%, According to Space News). Musk’s conflict of interest. While Doge is not an official government department, and therefore Elon Musk is not a senior official, the most complicated issue of all is that the employer is positioned to obtain multimillionaire contracts from the federal government. The Pentagon has already demonstrated its interest in Starship as a military transport, and NASA depends on the rocket to take astronauts to the moon. Starlink is also a key strategic asset for the United States, and Spacex is building a spy version called Starshield for the NRO. Finally, Trump’s nominee to direct NASA is Jared Isaacman, Musk’s commercial partner in two of Spacex’s most important commercial missions. Image | Elon Musk (X) In Xataka | China is getting closer to overcoming NASA in its Martian mission. And just invited other countries to join

Europe needs an alternative to Starlink and Spain has just invests 14 million in its first piece: Sateliot

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The gigantic Starlink satellite constellation has left Europe at strategic disadvantageas the Ukraine War demonstrated since its inception. In the new geopolitical context of Rearme, and while the European space industry seeks to become independent from the United States, Spain has decided to take care of one of its key assets in the low terrestrial orbit. The news. The Spanish government has approved A strategic investment of 13.85 million euros in Sateliot, The Catalan 5G satellite company for the Internet of Things. The investment will leave the European funds Next Tech (of the recovery plan, transformation and resilience), managed by the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT). Although the State I already participated in Sateliot Through the Public Company Sepides (with 4.69% of the capital), this investment 10 times greater reinforces the position of Spain prior to the development of IRIS2, the future European Starlink. What is Sateliot. Founded in 2018 by Jaume Sanpera (CEO) and Marco Guadalupi (CTO), Sateliot operates a constellation nanosatellites which offer 5G connectivity for the Internet of things from the low terrestrial orbit. These cubesats operate 600 km altitude and can connect any IoT device compatible with the standard “Rela 17” NTN. Sateliot is not a broadband service such as Starlink, but points to a thousand millionaire business: eliminating areas without cellular coverage for agriculture (irrigation devices, fertilizers), livestock (animal geolocation), logistics (trucks and ships), industrial infrastructure and renewable energy. Small satellites, huge expectations. Sateliot has launched six small cubesat satellites in orbits of about 600 km altitude, but projects to expand its constellation 250 satellites in 2026 to offer almost global coverage. The company has signed commercial contracts with companies such as Telefónica or Amazon Web Services, with which it plans to invoice 270 million euros a year. His forecast is reach income of one billion euros Annual for 2030. Integrated with terrestrial networks. Satelliot technology takes advantage of the 5G standard so that the IoT devices of its customers can connect directly to the satellites without specific equipment. Your customers or those of the operatorsbecause technology is integrated directly into land networks so that devices have continuous connectivity in remote or rural areas without stable terrestrial coverage. In this way, farmers can optimize the use of water and fertilizers to reduce costs. and industries such as logistics will be able to have a real -time monitoring of containers and goods. The way to Iris2. Sateliot acts as Precursor and strategic complement of the future IRIS2 European system, planned for 2030 with a public and private investment of 10,000 million euros. Iris2 is the European response Starlink, a constellation of satellites in different orbits that will initially offer sovereign communications for the Member States and their NATO partners, and will be expanded with commercial services or agglutinating other existing ones, such as Oneweb of the French Eutelsat. The Spanish Hispasat is another of the companies that leads the effort. A compartmentalized Starlink. Sateliot and Oneweb are somehow pieces of the future European Starlink, but cannot compete on the Starlink is far from what the European industry can offer right now. While Sateliot as Oneweb deployed their satellites (hiring Falcon 9 rockets, among others), Spacex has built in just over a year its first direct-to-cell constellation with LTE connectivity for all types of customers. The system He began to deploy In January 2024 and It is already working in the United States In beta phase, integrated with T-Mobile. Europe is aware of this resource difference, and is putting its eggs in many baskets. Part of the Strategy 2040 of ESA It is to support the development of these constellations and achieve autonomy in access to space with new commercial rockets that aspire to be reuse. Image | Sateliot In Xataka | Spacex has launched 8,000 Starlink satellites in five years, but they are not enough. And we are beginning to understand why

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