Enlarge / Artist’s rendering of the Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (foreground) docked to a client satellite. (credit: Northrop Grumman) A large, passenger van-sized spacecraft sidled up to an active, 6-ton satellite on Monday afternoon about 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface. Slowly, ever so slowly, the distance between the two vehicles closed. There was nothing wrong […]
Enlarge / Two classrooms had to be shut down due to a series of problems with maintaining policies meant to limit the spread of the pandemic. (credit: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty Images ) On Friday, the CDC released a report that traced the spread of the Delta variant through a California elementary school. It’s tempting […]
Enlarge / This is Kia’s distinctively styled EV6, a new electric crossover that’s one of the best we’ve tested. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Kia provided two nights in a hotel and a flight from San Francisco to Washington DC so we could drive the new EV6. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. HEALDSBURG, Calif. —Remember […]
