The navy project, called Vanguard, would use a new launch vehicle based on modified Viking and Aerobee sounding rockets to orbit a small scientific satellite.
Meanwhile, some Rio residents are already using a new cellphone app launched by Brazil's Amnesty International branch to avoid places where gunfights have happened.
As the travellers and Sir Richard posed at Farnborough Air Show beside a replica of SS2, Sir Richard also announced that the WhiteKnightTwo aircraft that will help launch SS2 into space will also be used for a new launch vehicle - LauncherOne - which will take small satellites into space for around a tenth of the present cost.
SpaceX is all about reducing the cost of launching things into space, and right now one of those costs it think it can eliminate is having to use a new fairing every time it launches a rocket.
According to the presentation, Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign also used a new advertising technique offered by Twitter, launched at the start of the election year, which enabled clients to kickstart viral tweets.
Lastly, a company called Direct proposed using space shuttle parts to build a new launch vehicle, claiming that the components will already be tested, and it will be cheaper and faster to build.
The Gonzo Scientist uses "culturomics"—a new field of study, launched in a recent Science paper, that quantitatively explores massive data sets of digitized culture to create a Science Hall of Fame.
The Pentagon had wanted to begin using the new launch system in tests to shoot down target rockets over the Pacific starting early next year.
The advances in balloon technology include increased flight duration ability, heavy load capability using new launch techniques, and very high altitude capability using thin films.
The August riots were new in that gangs of predominately young unemployed men were able, using new media, to launch a series of semi-organized disturbances for the purpose not of protest, but of criminal gain.
