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The NBA Most Improved Player race is off to a rollicking start with several explosive contenders.

SpaceX has launched a new type of zero-fuel propulsion system into orbit, which its creators claim will revolutionise the space industry. The Quantum Drive engine, built by US startup IVO Ltd, was fitted on a microsatellite that entered orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 9 mission, which lifted off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. IVO claims that its technology is the world’s first commercially viable pure electric propulsion technology that works in space, drawing “limitless power for propulsion from the Sun”. It relies on a controversial theory called Quantized Inertia (QI) that challenges Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion, with some physicists dismissing the technology as impossible. The QI theory was first proposed in 2007 by physicist Mike McCulloch, who drew on the mysterious properties of quantum mechanics to account for a new understanding of inertia as defined by Newton’s First Law of Motion. IVO chief executive Richard Mansell said his company performed 100 hours of vacuum chamber testing before the launch, during which the quantum drive produced a small amount of thrust. “Deploying Quantum Drive into orbit in a Rogue satellite on SpaceX Transporter 9 is a milestone for the future of space propulsion,” Mansell said. “Quantum Drive’s capability allows Rogue to produce new satellite vehicles with unlimited Delta V.” A pair of Quantum Drives are fitted to the BARRY-1 cubesat, which will take around one month to settle into its orbit before the next-generation propulsion system is activated in an effort to raise the satellites orbit by 100 kilometres. If successful, its creators say it will not only rewrite the critical principles of physics, but also form the foundation for a new era of space travel and exploration. “There are many things that have held back space exploration, one of them of course is power and propulsion,” said Mansell. “IVO’s quantum drive eliminates this propulsion problem by eliminating the fuel. By taking away the fuel, then you have essentially unlimited thrust.” Read More ‘It’s becoming like an airport’: How SpaceX normalised rocket launches

Since Sunday, 40 workers have been trapped in a tunnel they were building in the Himalayan region.

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By Brad Brooks The federal civil rights trial of a former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer charged in the

The Al-Shifa director says people are "screaming from thirst", as Israel says its "discreet" search continues.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -SpaceX postponed its second attempt to launch the company's Starship rocket system into space by a day to

Israel defends blocking fuel deliveries, as the UN warns this could lead to a breakdown of civil order.

Amazon.com said on Thursday its two prototype satellites for its planned Kuiper internet network have been operating successfully,

We are roughly one-eighth of the way through the NBA season. Here's how the NBA MVP rankings shape up, with the understanding that all is subject to change.

Lawmakers approve the sending of police officers even though a legal challenge is being heard.

The BBC enters hospital with Israeli forces and views small cache of weapons and other items they say was found there.