Published on: 2025-04-21 04:00:20
Welcome to Edition 7.40 of the Rocket Report! One of the biggest spaceflight questions in my mind right now is when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket will fly again. The company has been saying "late spring." Today, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel said they were told June. Several officials have suggested to Ars that the next launch will, in reality, occur no earlier than October. So when will we see New Glenn again? As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 11:25:08
Many historians agree that the fall of the Western Roman Empire, usually dated to the fall of ancient Rome in 476 CE, marked the end of classical antiquity. What they don’t always agree on, however, is what caused the Empire’s infamous decline. Theories include poor management, pressure from Germanic people, the rise of Christianity, overpopulation, worsening defenses—and even the unfortunate timing of a brief ice age. A multidisciplinary team has revealed new insight into what’s known as the L
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 15:27:18
Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, successfully launched its New Shepard rocket at around 9:30 a.m. ET on Monday, as it seeks to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the space tourism industry. What stands out most about this mission is that it featured the first all-female space crew since 1963, when Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova completed her solo mission. This also marks the 31st trip of the rocket and its 11th mission with a crew on board. The crew for this launch included pop arti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 01:00:28
So… I don’t usually write blogs mostly because I thought I wasn’t the “blogging type” (whatever that means). Actually, this is my first one. But after what happened during our first two-stage rocket attempt, I figured — yeah, it’s probably worth writing about. If nothing else, maybe someone else can laugh, learn, and avoid making the same mistakes we did. It started off like any good launch day. The rocket was prepped, the team was hyped, someone shouted “start!” (it was me) even though the roc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 00:00:14
ZDNET's key takeaways The Roborock Saros 10 is available for $1,599. This robot vacuum and mop does it all, with 22,000Pa of suction power, a retractable LiDAR sensor that easily fits under furniture, and a vibrating mopping plate that removes stubborn stains on hard floors. Unfortunately, the docking station has required intervention twice due to clogging issues. $1,599.99 at Amazon 2025 has been a big year for Roborock. The company launched two flagship robot vacuum and mop combinations, ea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 12:00:29
Welcome to Edition 7.39 of the Rocket Report! Not getting your launch fix? Buckle up. We're on the cusp of a boom in rocket launches as three new megaconstellations have either just begun or will soon begin deploying thousands of satellites to enable broadband connectivity from space. If the megaconstellations come to fruition, this will require more than a thousand launches in the next few years, on top of SpaceX's blistering Starlink launch cadence. We discuss the topic of megaconstellations i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 02:24:40
"No ads, no hosts, no sponsors, just games." The Triple-i Initiative's pitch for its now-annual showcase of games, crafted by studios working somewhere between "Solo dev or very small team" and "Investor-minded conglomerate with international offices," promises a lot of peeks at games without a lot of chatter, and once again it delivered. Last year's showcase debuted titles like Norland, Slay the Spire 2, and The Rogue Prince of Persia, along with updates from Darkest Dungeon 2, Palworld, and V
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 11:48:35
For quick reminders and can’t-miss memos, sticky notes are effective tools, and I'd argue that the simplicity of the sticky note is its best attribute. But the ease behind propping up sticky notes also means that it’s easy for people to find their desks covered in the things, making it difficult to glean critical information quickly. Rocketbook, a Boston-based company that also makes reusable notebooks, thinks it has a solution for sticky note overload in the form of an app that interprets hand
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 11:45:08
A newly discovered asteroid is on track for a close brush with Earth—and it might even slam into the Moon. Recently, astronomers got a closer look at the giant space rock, revealing its violent origin story. Using the Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, a team of astronomers was able to identify the physical properties of asteroid 2024 YR4 and uncover its potential origin. The menacing asteroid may have broken off from a larger space rock following a collision. It also likely originat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 11:54:27
We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an affordable way to experience that promised utopia right now. Today’s floor cleaners are also more advanced than ever. In addition to vacuuming, many of the best models can now mop, allowing you to tackle bot
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 13:41:00
There are plenty of budgeting apps out there, and each one offers something different. If you're not sure where to start, or you're looking for a better fit than your current app, Rocket Money is worth considering. Rocket Money has everything the average budgeter needs, plus perks like subscription cancellation and bill negotiation. It's user-friendly, feature-rich and affordable, with a price tag as low as $6 per month. For these reasons and more, it won CNET's 2024 Editors' Choice award for b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 19:15:12
The modern conveniences of easy cooking don’t always come from expensive devices with a million buttons and a digital motherboard. Sometimes they’re as one simple set-it-and-forget-it knob on a very effective and inexpensive appliance that probably has not changed much since your grandparents used it. That’s the beauty of the Crock-Pot 7-Quart Slow Cooker, which is 40% off right now at Amazon for an amazing limited-time $30 deal on a countertop cooking appliance you’ll use for years if not decad
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 13:31:56
Well, you’re in luck because if you pass through Rockefeller Plaza between W 48th St and W 49th St (at 10 Rockefeller Plaza), through a set of glass doors lies the narrowest escalator in all of NYC. This escalator leads up to the street level from the Rockefeller Center Plaza dining and shopping center below ground. If you aren’t in the mood to eat or shop and just want to ride this escalator, you can enter the building at 10 Rockefeller Plaza and walk down the large spiral staircase and then ta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 01:13:23
Posted on April 7, 2025 It’s time Lua got the ecosystem it deserves! For a bit over a year, we have been cooking up Lux, a new package manager for creating, maintaining and publishing Lua code. It does this through a simple and intuitive CLI inspired by other well-known package managers like cargo . Today, we feel the project has hit a state of “very usable for everyday tasks” . Features Fully portable between systems. Parallel builds and installs. 🚀 Handles the installation of Lua header
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Posted on April 7, 2025 It’s time Lua got the ecosystem it deserves! For a bit over a year, we have been cooking up Lux, a new package manager for creating, maintaining and publishing Lua code. It does this through a simple and intuitive CLI inspired by other well-known package managers like cargo . Today, we feel the project has hit a state of “very usable for everyday tasks” . Features Fully portable between systems. Parallel builds and installs. 🚀 Handles the installation of Lua header
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A British startup called Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket that, it claims, could significantly cut down the time it takes to travel to Mars in half. As CNN reports, the UK Space Agency-funded company's Sunbird rocket harnesses the power of nuclear fusion, the same process that powers stars, as a form of propulsion. "It’s very unnatural to do fusion on Earth," Pulsar founder and CEO Richard Dinan told CNN. "Fusion doesn’t want to work i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 11:11:11
SpaceX is having trouble with Starship's upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket's enormous booster. The most visible sign of SpaceX making headway with Starship's first stage—called Super Heavy—came at 9:40 am local time (10:40 am EDT; 14:40 UTC) Thursday at the company's Starbase launch site in South Texas. With an unmistakable blast of orange exhaust, SpaceX fired up a Super Heavy booster that has already ne to the edge of space.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 07:50:06
During the winter, storms layer the Rocky Mountains with snow that supplies the Western United States’ communities with water during the summer. But snow isn’t the only thing that storms deposit on those mountains. A team of researchers has revealed that the winter storms that cover the Rocky Mountains with snow also carry contaminants from mines. Their work, detailed in a study published March 26 in the journal Environmental Pollution, sheds light on the ecological consequences of mining activ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 07:59:30
Outside of several mentions in the Rocket Report newsletter dating back to 2018, Ars Technica has not devoted too much attention to covering a novel California space company named SpinLaunch. That's because the premise is so outlandish as to almost not feel real. The company aims to build a kinetic launch system that spins a rocket around at speeds up to 4,700 mph (7,500 km/h) before sending it upward toward space. Then, at an altitude of 40 miles (60 km) or so, the rocket would ignite its engi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 20:00:07
Welcome to Edition 7.38 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX test fired a Super Heavy booster that launched in January on Thursday, in South Texas. This sets up the possibility of a reused Super Heavy rocket launching within the next several weeks, and would be an important step forward in the Starship launch program. It's also a bold step given that there is a lot riding on this Starship launch, given that the last two have failed due to propulsion issues with the rocket's upper stage. As always, we w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 07:00:57
Traeger's only gas-powered grill is its Flatrock flat-top griddle. Besides this one model, everything else in the company's lineup runs on wood pellets. Since griddles continue to be insanely popular backyard cooking tools, Traeger is expanding its Flatrock line with a smaller, two-burner option. The Flatrock 2 Zone has all of the features from the larger version, which is now called the Flatrock 3 Zone, in a griddle that takes up less space on your deck, patio or porch. As the name suggests, t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:11:28
SpaceX is having trouble with Starship's upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket's enormous booster. The most visible sign of SpaceX making headway with Starship's first stage—called Super Heavy—came at 9:40 am local time (10:40 am EDT; 14:40 UTC) Thursday at the company's Starbase launch site in South Texas. With an unmistakable blast of orange exhaust, SpaceX fired up a Super Heavy booster that has already flown to the edge of spac
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 03:18:00
What just happened? AMD has responded to reports of 108 Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs unexpectedly dying in users' machines, with most of the incidents happening on Asrock motherboards. Team Red blames memory compatibility issues for the processors "failing to complete POST," even though the affected chips reportedly did pass POST and worked for anything from half an hour to several months before dying, with many cases showing physical damage. This week saw a Redditor compile a list of 108 Reddit posts
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 02:00:00
A host of companies have readied rockets that are comparable to SpaceX’s main launch vehicles. The list includes Rocket Lab, which aims to take on SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 with its Neutron rocket and could have its first launch in late 2025, and Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, which recently completed the first mission of a rocket it hopes will compete against SpaceX’s Starship. Some of these competitors are just starting to get rockets off the ground. And the companies could also face unu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 18:07:36
NASA has officially added SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket to its roster — despite the vehicle never having completed a single successful test flight, let alone a mission. The space agency announced last week that it had awarded SpaceX a "modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings." As the agency explains, these contracts "provide a broad range of commercial launch services for NASA’s plane
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 02:41:05
is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The release of Apple’s iOS 18.4 on Monday includes good news for robot vacuum owners. The update includes support for controlling robot vacuums and adding them to automations and scenes in the Apple Home app via the Matter protocol. With the official rollout of iOS 18.4, companies like Roborock, iRobot, and Ecovacs are introducing firmware update
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 05:48:48
We've never seen a rocket explode with this kind of view before. Arctic Blast A rocket by German startup Isar Aerospace tore into the sky over Norway's Arctic Andoeya Spaceport, a European launch base for small satellites, over the weekend — only to plummet back down to the ground, exploding in a dramatic fireball. Fortunately, while the spaceport's "crisis management" was triggered, nobody was hurt. As Reuters reports, the rocket, dubbed Spectrum, was meant to kick off Europe's efforts to k
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 07:41:05
is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The release of Apple’s iOS 18.4 on Monday includes good news for robot vacuum owners. The update includes support for controlling robot vacuums and adding them to automations and scenes in the Apple Home app via the Matter protocol. With the official rollout of iOS 18.4, companies like Roborock, iRobot, and Ecovacs are introducing firmware update
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 17:21:12
Who said there's an egg crisis? NASA's Perseverance Rover has stumbled across an extremely strange rock that's "astonished" scientists while exploring the rim of the Jezero crater on Mars. Nicknamed "St. Pauls Bay," the rock is made up of hundreds of densely packed, millimeter-sized dark spheres — not unlike an insect's slimy egg cluster. These "spherules," as they're known, are somewhat heterogeneous. As seen in a closeup taken with Perseverance's SuperCam Remote Micro Imager, some of them a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 23:24:21
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is preparing for a second launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket in “late spring,” the company announced Monday. The company also believes it has determined why the booster stage failed during an attempted landing on an ocean platform during the inaugural flight in January. Blue Origin said it has identified “seven corrective actions” during the review of the booster failure, which was mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration. Those mainly focus around
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