The Morning After: NASA gears up for another Artemis test

There’s loads driving on NASA’s next-generation Space Launch System, the modern-day rocket that can carry the Artemis missions. But after delaying its most up-to-date test to make pressing repairs to the gasoline system, the SLS is as soon as once more prepared for another milestone. Today, the craft is on its manner over to Launch Pad 39B to organize for its “wet” dress rehearsal (so that they gasoline it, even when they don’t have any intention of launching) later this month.

That test will take the rocket all the best way to the countdown process whereas totally fuelled, giving engineers loads of new knowledge forward of a deliberate real-world launch. If that each one goes to plan, we could possibly be a couple of months away from sending an uncrewed car into orbit across the Moon. Give it a pair extra years, and we’ll hopefully ship a crew past Earth’s gravity for the primary time since 1972.

— Dan Cooper

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This shouldn’t be an out-of-season April Fools’ joke.

The Diablo Immortal opinions all stated just about the identical factor: There’s sport hidden beneath all of that loot-box crud. Unfortunately, for those who had been utilizing a Samsung telephone with one of many company’s personal Exynos chipsets, the sport feels much more damaged than that. It seems as if the title isn’t working nicely with that silicon, making the title nearly unplayable. A Blizzard spokesperson stated the company is exploring the issue and will block downloads of the title to some affected telephones whereas they scramble for a repair.

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Now SpaceX is its greatest buddy (for now).

NASA has bought an additional raft of crewed missions from SpaceX to make sure the International Space Station retains its full personnel complement till 2030. The 5 journeys are sufficient to offer an “uninterrupted” US presence on the station till its deliberate retirement date. Not solely will it assist give NASA choices throughout its launch program, it’ll additionally cover any gaps made by Boeing’s yet-to-be-certified Starliner car, which isn’t resulting from fly till subsequent year. If nothing else, that’s some egg on the face of the aerospace big, which has lost floor to its upstart rival within the spaceflight world for a while now.

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No Orange MacBook Air for you.

It’s the week of Apple’s large developer occasion, which suggests we’re more likely to get an entire host of latest {hardware} and software bulletins as a part of the principle present. But for those who had been hoping the next-generation MacBook Air would have the identical bunch of colour choices as the brand new iMac, put together for disappointment. Those within the know declare an up to date M1 MacBook Air will solely promote in 4 hues: space grey, silver, blue and gold. That stated, it’s laborious to know what the company will announce given the manufacturing facility closures brought on by China’s contemporary spherical of COVID-19 lockdowns.

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The nation’s homegrown space station is getting an enormous push towards completion.

Astronauts aboard China’s Shenzhou-14 mission have efficiently arrived on the nation’s Tiangong space station. The crew of three will spend the following six months on the station to make a major stride towards finishing its setup. Next month, the nation will launch a lab module to develop the station’s footprint, with a second unit going up in October, and astronauts will conduct a number of EVAs to get every thing linked and prepared. If profitable, the nation expects Tiangong to be totally operational by the tip of the year.

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It paid a $300 million nice.

Stellantis, guardian company of Fiat Chrysler and PSA Group, has pleaded responsible to costs of legal conspiracy after overlaying the extent of its diesel emissions. The automotive big was accused of violating the Clean Air Act, deceptive regulators round tailpipe emissions and putting in defeat units to cheat authorities exams. As a part of the settlement, the company should submit compliance experiences to the Justice Department for three years. Meanwhile, three of its staff are awaiting legal costs. Given the outsize impression that tailpipe emissions have each on individuals’s well being and the local weather, and that the company’s internet revenue was reportedly almost $15.2 billion in 2021, the penalty looks like one thing of a cut price.

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