Updated Saturday, October 6, 2021, at 11 a.m.: Eric Adams definitively quashed the idea of lifting vaccine mandates Friday night, negating much of the speculation below. The points made by the writer about what it would mean stand on their own. Read more…
Kyrie Irving vaccination watch 2021 may have received a boost — not booster — from Election Day 2021. If New York mayor-elect Eric Adams, who takes office Jan. 1, lifts vaccine mandates, Irving would most likely be welcomed back to the Nets regardless of vaccination status, according to Brooklyn coach Steve Nash. Read more…
Enlarge / Jeff Bezos had hoped to build a lunar lander for NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA). (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) For Blue Origin, the honeymoon is over. This summer, the company filed a lawsuit against NASA (NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION) , claiming that the agency ignored its own requirements when it awarded […]
Enlarge / Boeing office building in Arlington, Virginia. (credit: Getty Images | Olivier Douliery) The Federal Communications Commission today gave Boeing permission to launch 147 broadband satellites. While that’s a fraction of the number of satellites approved for other low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations, the decision allows Boeing to compete in the emerging LEO satellite […]
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish. (credit: Starlink) Some people who preordered Starlink broadband say they made tiny changes to their service locations on the Starlink website and immediately had their delivery dates delayed by a year or more. This isn’t a case of changing an address from one city to another; people say that using […]
Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish’s printed circuit board. (credit: Ken Keiter ) If you ordered Starlink broadband service and don’t receive your ” Dishy McFlatface ” satellite dish any time soon, the global chip shortage may be one reason why. “Silicon shortages have delayed production which has impacted our ability to fulfill orders. Please […]
Enlarge / SpaceX ignites a vacuum-optimized Raptor engine attached to Starship on Thursday, October 21. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX took another step on Thursday evening toward validating the rocket engine technology that will power its Starship rocket. For the first time, engineers at the company ignited a vacuum version of a Raptor rocket engine that had […]
Enlarge / Rendering of SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch site with FAA annotations. (credit: FAA) The Federal Aviation Administration convened the first of two virtual public hearings on Monday evening to solicit public comments on SpaceX’s plan to launch its Starship rocket from South Texas. The hearing, which lasted nearly four hours, drew both passionate support […]
Prince William doesn’t see the point in rushing into space when we have bigger issues to deal with on our home planet! The future king sat down for an interview on BBC’s Newscast podcast this week and slammed the space tourism frenzy, explaining that the billionaires who are spending planet-sized sums in the next space […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) About three years ago, Blue Origin officials knew they were behind, failing to deliver on their founder’s grandiose vision. With Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos had long talked about building a world-class space transportation company and had even gone so far as to trademark “Build a Road to Space. […]