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ESA Winter 2023 – eTeknix Has a Speedrunner and He’d Like Your Support!
I have always been a huge fan of speedrunning. I can’t honestly remember when I first got into it, but I have some vague recollection of it being something to do with Dark Souls. Likely the fact that I was impressed that some people out there were capable of beating…
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Trump Finally Calls Meeting To Discuss Video Games
Donald Trump US President Donald Trump, after days of speculation, has finally called together a meeting to discuss violence and video games. In the meeting, he has invited several key members of the video game development community and regulation to discuss what can be done to prevent violence in young people.…
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European Mars Mission to Launch on Monday
The first phase of the joint venture between the European Space Agency and Russia, known as ExoMars is expected to be launching on Monday 14th of March. The launch will take place at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with a Proton-M rocket responsible for carrying the scientific payload onto a trajectory to…
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NASA Discovers ‘Super-Earth’ Exoplanet With an Atmosphere
Astronomers from NASA and ESA have, for the first time, been able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet that is classified as a ‘Super-Earth’. Exoplanet 55 Cancri e, which is located around 40 light-years from Earth was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and found…
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Aerospace Scientists Says Goodbye to Philae Lander
The German scientists behind the intrepid Rosetta space mission have given up hope of re-establishing communications with its Philae lander. The probe, which landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has been silent since July 2015, and the team from the German Aerospace Center are now pessimistic that it will be able to…
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EA, Nintendo, Playstation, and Ubisoft Launch Attack on KickAss Torrents
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which has EA, Nintendo, Playstation, and Ubisoft as its members, has reported a number of torrent sites to the US government, specifically highlighting popular site KickAss Torrents as the largest portal for video game piracy. In a letter the ESA wrote to the US Director…
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Lost UK Beagle 2 Probe Found on Mars
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found the lost Beagle 2 probe – developed in the UK and launched on 2nd June 2003 – intact on the surface of Mars. Beagle 2 was set to make a soft touchdown on Mars on Christmas Day 2003, by a combination of parachutes and…
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This Sound System is Loud Enough To Kill
I’m betting most of you have had a moment in your life with a noisy neighbour, their music is too loud and all you want to do it tell them to STFU. It’s likely they only have a standard stereo system, so imagine what it would be like to live…
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10 Years & 4 Billion Miles Later, Rosseta Spacecraft Arrives at Comet Today
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has spent the last decade on an epic journey from Earth to the deep reaches of space, in a bid to hunt down and study a comet in unprecedented detail. The craft has made a series of ten thruster firings over the past few…
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Coffee and Dessert Makes It’s Way to the ISS on ESA Resupply Ship
Now being aboard the ISS (International Space Station) must be an amazing privilege indeed, living way about the earth seeing everything that’s happening below. For the lucky few that get to live/work up there for a living they need to be able to function like the rest of us here…
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Quadcopter Style Drone May Offer Better Safe Landings for Mars Rovers
Quadcopters and drones are proving to be one of the most popular bits of technology of the last decade, and a team at the ESA are discovering that they’re not only great fun here on Earth, but could also provide us with benefits on Mars. The ESA recently tested a…
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Replica Mini Mars Created Just Outside London by Airbus Defence
If you want to test a new rover for a mission on the red planet you’ve got two options. One would be to spend billions and fire your creation through space to Mars and put it straight to work, alternatively you can spend £500,000 and build a massive “Mars Yard”…
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European Space Agency Studying Potential Benefit of 3D Printing in Space
The lure of 3D printing technology in space is appealing, and the European Space Agency (ESA) is now studying implementing 3D-printed technology. The use of 3D printing could help reduce waste, so the ESA Clean Space initiative wants to see how effective it would be on the International Space Station (ISS). Although…
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Billion-Pixel Gaia Space Telescope Snaps It’s First Picture
While the first image taken by the Gaia Space Telescope may not look incredible, it really is an incredible first step in what will be one of the most impressive technical achievements in space exploration. The billion-pixel space telescope snapped its first picture this week and while it is a…
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Space Probe Rosetta Is Operational After Being In Hibernation For 4 Years
An artists impression of space probe Rosetta rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko The space probe launched by The European Space Agency or ESA has sent its first transmission back to earth after 3 years of hibernation from over 800 million kilometers away. The probe named Rosetta sent its first signal to the ESA this…
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