Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover floated back outside the International Space Station Monday and completed solar array battery replacement work that began four years ago. They also installed three new video cameras and made preparations for upcoming work to install new roll-out solar blankets to upgrade the lab’s power system. From a report: The work took less time than expected…
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On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flight
Scientists have made significant progress in understanding the sources of radiation events that could impact human space-flight operations. Relativistic electron precipitation (REP) events are instances when high energy electrons move through areas of space at significant fractions of the speed of light. These REP events may pose challenges to human spaceflight, specifically during extravehicular activity (EVA). Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-trail-events-space-flight.html…
Proxima review: Eva Green shines as a troubled astronaut
Alice Winocour’s new film Proxima shows the difficulties of balancing family life with a career as an astronaut, finds Simon Ings Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732930-400-proxima-review-eva-green-shines-as-a-troubled-astronaut/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
EA Releases Source Code and 4K Remasters For Two ‘Command and Conquer’ Games
EA Games has just released The Command & Conquer Remastered Collection on Steam, described by Hot Hardware as two of the ’90s-era real-time strategy games that “were incredibly popular in their day and are still popular with retro gamers today…” “Gamers can change between legacy and remastered 4K graphics in real-time when playing solo mode,” they note, adding that “deep support…
Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
Sweden has dropped an investigation into a rape allegation made against Julian Assange. From a report: The deputy chief prosecutor, Eva-Marie Persson, told a news conference: “I want to inform about my decision to discontinue the preliminary investigation.” The decision on Tuesday follows a ruling in June by a Swedish court that Assange, who denies the accusation, should not be detained….