Someday soon, plug-in cars may no longer need a plug. Electric car drivers would simply pull into a specialized parking space when it’s time to power up, wait for a light on their dashboard to switch on, and then hop out of the car and go about their day.
SpaceX is set to send up the 11th launch from the Space Coast this afternoon with a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base.
Liftoff is slated for 3:11 p.m. during a two-hour window from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40. The rocket’s payload is the Merah Putih 2 satellite for Telkom Indonesia, which is headed for a geosynchronous transfer orbit. A backup opportunity is available Wednesday with a four-hour window opening at 12:53 p.m.
Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts a greater than 95% chance for good conditions.
This is the 17th launch of the first stage booster, and SpaceX will attempt its recovery landing downrange on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. One of the most flown of SpaceX’s boosters, it previously launched the Crew-3 and Crew-4 human spaceflight missions among others.
SpaceX has flown all but one of the launches from the Space Coast so far in 2023 with United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur having flown the other.
Rivian and Lucid cut vehicle prices in February even as both burn through cash. The startups once had higher market valuations than GM or Ford but are now worth a small fraction of their market peaks.
The restored building is to include a mixture of Ford and other employees as part of its autonomous and EV campus, and part of the plan includes turning some of the top floors into hotel space.
By Holden Lewis | NerdWallet
You feel demoralized about the housing market, right? Hold on. After a grim 2022 and 2023, it looks like 2024 is shaping up to be less hostile to home buyers.
Here’s a summary of what’s been rotten in the state of housing: Home prices skyrocketed from the middle of 2020 to mid-2022. Then, mortgage rates took off, and the 30-year fixed-rate home loan crested at almost 8% in October 2023. Home buyers struggled with affordability as high interest rates eroded their borrowing power. They had few homes to choose from, anyway.
Meanwhile, rising rents made it harder to save up a down payment — or simply to find an affordable place to rent. The typical tenant’s annual rent went up 6% in 2022, and another 8% in 2023, after rising less than 4% each year in the previous 14 years.
It’s been a rough few years. But 2024 might see improvement in mortgage rates, home prices, and availability of both new and used homes for sale. Buying a home won’t be easy in 2024, but it might be less frustrating than in 2022 and 2023.