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SPAC Goldenbridge completes merger with China’s SunCar Technology
Maxar completes $6.4B sale to private equity
Maxar Technologies, the satellite imaging and manufacturing company, has completed its $6.4 billion sale to private equity. The company announced on Wednesday that it was no longer listed on the New York Stock Exchange following the closing of the acquisition by PE firm Advent International and minority investor British Columbia Investment Management Corporation. It will […]
Maxar completes $6.4B sale to private equity by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch
Virgin Galactic Completes Final Glide Flight and Readies for Rocket-Powered Spaceflight
Virgin Galactic appears to be one step closer to resuming its space tourism services. The company announced today a successful suborbital test of the VSS Unity spaceplane and hopes to begin rocket-powered spaceflight tests in the coming months.
Elden Ring legend completes ludicrous ‘all Malenia’ challenge run that replaced every enemy with the game’s hardest boss
Mars Helicopter ‘Ingenuity’ Completes 50th Flight After Two Years on Mars
CNN reports that the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) helicopter has now “surpassed all expectations,” transitioning into “an aerial scout for the Perseverance rover as it explores an ancient lake and river delta on Mars.”
Each morning, the Helicopter Base Station on the Perseverance rover searches for Ingenuity’s signal around the time the chopper is expected to “wake up,” waiting for a sign that its aerial scout is still functioning. But Ingenuity’s solar panels, batteries and rotor system are healthy. The chopper is “still doing fantastic,” said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity team lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We’re looking forward to just keep pushing that envelope.”
Since the helicopter left the flat floor of Jezero Crater and headed to the river delta in January, its flights have only grown more challenging. Ingenuity has flown over uncharted and rugged terrain with landing spots surrounded by potential hazards. “We are not in Martian Kansas anymore,” said Josh Anderson, Ingenuity operations lead at JPL, in a statement. “We’re flying over the dried-up remnants of an ancient river that is filled with sand dunes, boulders, and rocks, and surrounded by hills that could have us for lunch. And while we recently upgraded the navigation software onboard to help determine safe airfields, every flight is still a white-knuckler….”
Ingenuity’s team is already planning its next set of flights because the chopper has to remain at the right distance to stay in touch with the fast-moving rover, which can drive for hundreds of meters in a single day… The Perseverance rover is moving on from an area that could contain hydrated silica, which might have information about a warmer, wetter Martian past and any potential signs of life from billions of years ago. Up next is Mount Julian, a site that will provide the rover with a panoramic view into Belva Crater.
Ingenuity’s journey has demonstrated how useful aircraft can be on space missions, scouting places that rovers can’t go or helping plot a safe path to the next destination.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
King takes leaf out of his mother’s book as he completes the Queen’s Green Canopy project
Streamer completes Resident Evil 4 Remake using a real chainsaw
A Resident Evil 4 Remake Twitch streamer has ditched conventional PC gamepads for a real chainsaw controller, and they even managed to 100% the game’s campaign. No one was hurt throughout the 30-hour play-through, but neighbours have raised noise complaints to the local council.
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