An anonymous reader quotes Florida Today:
A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule suffered an anomaly during a routine test fire at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Saturday afternoon, the 45th Space Wing confirmed today. “On April 20, 2019, an anomaly occurred at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during the Dragon 2 static test fire,” Wing Spokesman Jim Williams told FLORIDA TODAY. “The anomaly…
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Falcon Heavy Launch Close up
Twenty seven Merlin rocket engines are firing in this Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Lucifer’s Saucy Devil Walks You Through a Crash Course of the Show’s First 3 Seasons
Lucifer, formerly of Fox but rescued by Netflix, will launch its fourth season starting May 8. There’s still time to catch up on the previous seasons, but the truth is you don’t need a deep grasp of the material to enjoy the show (this ain’t Game of Thrones). Read more…Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com/lucifers-saucy-devil-walks-you-through-a-crash-course-o-1834172836…
Video: Soon, kidneys-on-a-chip will rocket to space station
UW scientists are prepping a kidney-on-a-chip experiment at Cape Canaveral, Florida, awaiting a shuttle launch that will take the chips into space. At an altitude of 250 miles, astronauts will help study how reduced gravity in space affects kidney physiology. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-video-kidneys-on-a-chip-rocket-space-station.html…
Things are stacking up for NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft
For the past few months, the clean room floor in High Bay 1 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been covered in parts, components and test equipment for the Mars 2020 spacecraft, scheduled for launch toward the Red Planet in July of 2020. But over the past few weeks, some of these components—the spacecraft-rocket-laden landing system and even…
First Japan-Built Airliner In 50 Years Takes On Boeing and Airbus
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: More cities in Asia and Europe are seeking to link up with each other and the global air travel network. The Mitsubishi Regional Jet, the first airliner built in Japan since the 1960s, began certification flights last month in Moses Lake, Washington, to satisfy that demand. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s new airliner is…
Amazon and Google Announce Official YouTube Apps to Launch on Fire TV; Prime Video App Coming to Chromecast and Android TV
Amazon and Google have worked out their differences. On Thursday, they announced that official YouTube app will soon make a return to Fire TV devices and Fire TV Edition smart TVs. Additionally, Prime Video app will be coming to Chromecast and Chromecast built-in devices. “In addition, Prime Video will be broadly available across Android TV device partners, and the YouTube TV…
Billie Ellish, the neo-goth, chart-topping 17-year-old pop star, explained
Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/18/18412282/who-is-billie-eilish-explained-coachella-2019…
China to launch asteroid probe, calls for partners
China plans to launch an ambitious asteroid exploration mission and has invited collaborators to put their experiments on the probes, space agency officials said Thursday. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-china-asteroid-probe-partners.html…
Review Units of Samsung’s Folding Smartphone Have Broken Almost Immediately
The Samsung Galaxy Fold costs $1,980, but multiple reviewers say theirs has broken after just a day of use. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmpvny/review-units-of-samsungs-folding-smartphone-have-broken-almost-immediately…