Universal Studios Japan has announced the launch date for its long-awaited Nintendo-themed area. The Super Nintendo Land Zone will open on February 4, 2021 at the Osaka Theme Park. It’s actually a little earlier than expected – last month Nintendo said the project would open in the spring. A themed …
Read More »Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Killed Iranian nuclear scientist shot dead with remote-controlled machine gun, news agency says
Top Iranian officials have blamed Israel, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Umani and others have vowed to take revenge for the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the country’s chief nuclear scientist. There were conflicting accounts of Iranian news agencies about how the attack took place. According to a report published …
Read More »NASA begins assembling ‘Artemis’ rockets for 2021 launch
30 Apollo 11th lunar landing anniversary (9 of 20): Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, Apollo 11 ExtraVehicles are photographs of walking near the lunar module during extracurricular activity. (Photo by NASA / Getty Images) ON NewsroomUpdated 3:34 PM PT – Sunday, November 29, 2020 NASA is starting …
Read More »Japan to launch state-of-the-art relay satellite into orbit with laser communications tech
The Japanese satellite laser relay technology was launched into space on Sunday (November 29) on a mission to transfer data at high speeds from military and civilian Earth observation spacecraft. At 2:25 a.m. from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, the Communications Satellite carrying a laser payload from the …
Read More »There is fabric on the space station that scientists use to “listen” to space dust effects.
The biggest threat to the International Space Station (ISS) comes from micrometroid effects. A small hole in the wrong place can throw resident astronauts into a fatal situation. Currently, there is no active program to monitor such effects, although scientists believe that given the ubiquity of small objects in the …
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