With all the money Netflix is spending on new shows, for awhile it’s overlooked a small detail we all encounter before watching. The service’s profile icons are soon getting a long overdue update, going from the flat minimalist versions that have bee…
SpaceX confirmed on Twitter this morning that it recovered the booster from the latest Falcon 9 launch. Shortly after launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California at 7:39AM ET this morning, the booster stage landed on the Just Read The Instructions drone ship. The company will now try to catch the rocket’s fairing with a giant net attached to the ship Mr. Stevens.
SpaceX has become more adept at landing its booster rockets but it’s still a spectacle every time it happens. This landing is extra special as the winds were gusting around the time of the launch.
The rocket company has so far been less successful with catching the payload shrouds. SpaceX’s high-speed recovery boat Mr. Steven took to the seas this time around with a larger net in the hopes of recovering the fairings. Reusing as much as possible is critical to SpaceX’s mission to lower the cost of space flight.
Today’s launch was SpaceX’s seventh mission for the company’s client Iridium who contracted with SpaceX to launch 75 satellites into orbit. According to SpaceX, today’s payload of Iridium satellites so far deployed without an issue. SpaceX is contracted for one more launch with Iridium.
This was SpaceX’s 14th launch of 2018.
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Microsoft started in earnest to carve out its own app store platform back in Windows 8 and it was a disaster. Barely anyone paid attention to it, which also left its Windows RT variant devoid of actually useful apps. It tried again with Windows 10 and its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and had more success. But now it might have … Continue reading
One of the most promising locations for the possibility of life outside of Earth in our own solar system is an icy moon of Jupiter called Europa. NASA sent a Galileo mission to check out the moon in the 1990s and that mission provided evidence that under the icy surface Europa has a liquid ocean. The watery depths inside the … Continue reading
Let’s call “gay-panic” what it is: a hate crime.
Kenneth Moore has spent decades behind bars for crimes he claims he did not commit.
The woman livestreamed video of her one-person protest, and the Afghan man was taken off the flight.
Democrat Danny O’Connor will “protect health care for my family and yours,” says Ady Barkan, an activist with ALS.
“To Iranian President Rouhani: GET ME A COKE.”
Insurers will be relieved, and markets will avoid a big hit.
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