[2021-01-24 16:56:40 UTC: UPDATE 2]SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket at 10:30 ET (1630 UTC). The booster -- its 5th flight -- successfully landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You. All 143 of the satellites on board were released at their scheduled times. Lastly, both fairing halves were successfully caught by the recovery ships Ms Tree and Ms Chief[2021-01-23 14:37:05 UTC: UPDATE 1]
TomTheFighter writes:Mira Furlan has passed away - at the age of 65 - far too young.Babylon 5 is one of the great stories - top notch writing and acting - and Mira's portrayal of Delenn is memorable.Good bye and thank you.Mira Furlan, 'Lost' and 'Babylon 5' actress, dead at 65:
Stacking Sheets of Tissue Builds Better Lab-Grown Meatupstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Stacking sheets of tissue builds better lab-grown meat:
canopic jug writes:The Raspberry Pi Foundation's first microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico is now on sale at $4. Raspberry Pi is normally associated with single board microcomputers. This microcontroller uses the RP2040 dual-core ARM Cortex-M0+ chip. The board has support for C, C++, and microPython.
canopic jug writes:Ernie Smith, an editor at Tedium, has explored the historical events which led to the Linksys WRT54G router becoming so popular. It rose to fame because of an undocumented feature which, once discovered, led to great interest in the wider ICT [*] community.
canopic jug writes:The company Exotrail is testing a Hall Effect propulsion unit in a CubeSat and has completed some initial in-orbit tests successfully. Normally that kind of thruster is enormous and requires very large amounts of electricity. This one is about 2 liters in volume and uses only about 50 watts of power. More tests are planned in orbit. Exotrail's customers include the European Space Agency, the French space agency CNES, and AAC Clyde Space. Not much information beyond the press release is available.Covered at:
hemocyanin writes:The NY Times, in a Jan 17, 2020, article outlines new details in an anti-trust suit brought by ten states: Behind a Secret Deal between Google and Facebook. These apparently come from an unredacted version of the lawsuit filed in October 2020: Redacted Version. (I did not find an unredacted version)From TFA: