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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

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Lynk books SpaceX flight for direct-to-cellphone satellites
Lynk aims to launch multiple operational satellites on a SpaceX ride-share mission in December, ahead of plans to provide connectivity services with the constellation directly to unmodified cellphones next year. SpaceNews...
13 hours ago
Investors drop out of Momentus SPAC deal
Investors accounting for more than half the money in a funding round concurrent with in-space transportation company Momentus’s merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) dropped out of the deal when given the opportunity...
14 hours ago
Rocket Lab identifies cause of Electron failure
Rocket Lab said July 19 that it has identified the cause of an Electron launch failure more than two months ago and that the vehicle is ready to return to flight. SpaceNews
15 hours ago
Air Force satellite completes two-year experiment to study the medium Earth orbit environment
AFRL completed a two-year space experiment that will help better understand the effects of radiation on space hardware in medium Earth orbit. SpaceNews
18 hours ago
Blue Origin ready for first crewed New Shepard launch
Blue Origin is on track to perform the first crewed launch of its New Shepard vehicle July 20, carrying company founder Jeff Bezos and three others on a suborbital spaceflight. SpaceNews
2 days ago

UK Covid live: More than 1 million pupils in England out of school last week for pandemic-related reasons
Latest updates: Department for Education figures reveal more than 1 million children in England were out of class for Covid reasons last weekIsolate if ‘pinged’ by NHS app, says No 10, despite minister’s claimsCummings tells BBC Johnson...
28 minutes ago
For us NHS paramedics, the rise in calls to Covid cases is ominously familiar | Jake Jones
Ambulances are an informal frontline in healthcare – and the number of people I see unvaccinated worries meAs the sun comes up on Monday 19 July, the day England’s Covid-19 restrictions ended, my crewmate and I find ourselves assessing...
an hour ago
Sue Perkins confirmed as new host of BBC Radio 4’s Just a Minute
Former Bake Off presenter to take helm of comedy panel show after death of Nicholas Parsons The broadcaster and comedian Sue Perkins will be the next host of BBC Radio 4’s long-running comedy panel show Just a Minute.Her appointment follows...
an hour ago

Jeff Bezos' rocket prepares to take off for space
19 minutes ago
Jeff Bezos ready to rocket into space
• Jeff Bezos concedes that billionaires-in-space critics are 'largely right' • How to watch Bezos go to space
23 minutes ago
Tokyo Olympic bubble system 'kind of broken,' says health expert
A Tokyo public health expert says the Olympic bubble system "is kind of broken" just three days before the sporting spectacle is set to begin.
an hour ago

4K vs. HDR monitor: How to choose
4K and HDR are the peanut butter and jelly of modern televisions. Where you find one, you’ll find the other. Together, they’re the recipe for a delicious eye-candy sandwich.Monitors aren’t so lucky. While it’s possible to find 4K...
an hour ago
11 powerful websites that can replace your desktop software
Web browsers used to be a place where folks could only play flash games, check emails, hang out in chat rooms, and torrent music (and malware) from LimeWire. Those days are long gone.Thanks to the sophisticated development of web technologies...
2 hours ago
Best Buy will sell Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs this Tuesday (if you have a ticket)
If you’ve been searching in vain for a graphics card during the crippling GPU shortage, tomorrow might just be your best chance yet at snagging one. Best Buy announced that it will be selling GeForce RTX 30-series graphics card in select stores...
18 hours ago