Новости за 18.02.2022

Sixth-seeded Spring Valley upset second-seeded Liberty in double overtime to advance to the Class 5A Southern Region basketball championship game Saturday.

By GREG MENGELT MIAMI, Fla. — Three days ahead of its showdown with Florida Atlantic for first place in the Conference USA East Division, Josh Jefferson and the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders took care of business with a 71-65 victory over Florida International at Ocean Bank Convocation Center on Thursday. On the heels of a […]

Book review: 'The Stone Tower' by Riaz Dean

Jaylen Clark displayed his all-around game against the Washington State Cougars by scoring 18 points, grabbing 11 rebounds, and dishing out five assists for the UCLA Bruins in the victory.

Dozens of suspects have been charged with racking up fraudulent hours, the attorney general said.

The stock quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 1696.15 and a 52-week low of Rs 1104.05.

According to the report, while 5G will support the metaverse ecosystem, the emergence of 6G will enhance metaverse use cases.

A Russian court has upheld a case by the Russian state justifying the seizure of RUB19bn from the founder of car dealer Rolf. Sergei Petrov is accused of not declaring his income while he was a member of the Duma. He denies the charges.

Takagi won a medal in all but one of the five events she competed in at the Beijing Games.

A Russian court has upheld a case by the Russian state justifying the seizure of RUB19bn from the founder of car dealer Rolf. Sergei Petrov is accused of not declaring his income while he was a member of the Duma. He denies the charges.

[New Times] National Basketball League Champions REG have signed American tactician Robert John Pack Jr as their new head coach ahead of the forthcoming second edition of Basketball Africa League (BAL).

Eileen Gu, the face of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games who already had a gold and silver heading into her best event, added a third medal and second gold in the free-ski half-pipe competition.

Noordwijk, Netherlands (ESA) Feb 11, 2022
ESA's Navigation Laboratory has a new recruit: this drone can carry different types of satellite navigation receivers to collect data for follow-on analysis. The NavLab, based at ESA's ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is focused on the testing, analysis and characterisation of navigation systems for both ESA and external customers. With drones representing a rapi

Cleveland OH (SPX) Feb 16, 2022
NASA is inviting students to participate in an essay contest to explore how it powers some of its most famous missions. The contest also encourages participants to learn something about themselves in the process. The Power to Explore Challenge, open to K-12 students in U.S. public, private, and homeschools, is accepting entries from Tuesday, Feb. 15 through Wednesday, April 13. The competi

Toulouse, France (SPX) Feb 17, 2022
Latecoere, a leading partner of major international aircraft manufacturers and the European leader in satellite wiring, is strengthening its activity in the space industry thanks to three major cooperation projects with Airbus. Latecoere designs, industrializes, produces and integrates electrical harnesses for three emblematic European space programs: the Eurostar Neo satellites, for both

Rochester NY (SPX) Feb 18, 2022
The collective activity of life-all of the microbes, plants, and animals-have changed planet Earth. Take, for example, plants: plants 'invented' a way of undergoing photosynthesis to enhance their own survival, but in so doing, released oxygen that changed the entire function of our planet. This is just one example of individual lifeforms performing their own tasks, but collectively having

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2022
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency's "You've Got Perseverance!" campaign was honored with a message from the Red Planet and a chat with the rover team at JPL. A group of 20 young students who have shown the character trait that NASA's Perseverance rover is named for received messages of encouragement directly from that six-wheeled scientist on Mars. Nominated by educator

Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 15, 2022
Several dozen small impact craters, 10-70-m in size, have been discovered in southeastern Wyoming. A team of U.S. and German geoscientists found these ancient craters in exposed sedimentary layers from the Permian period (280 million years ago). After discovering the first craters, the team initially suspected that they are a crater-strewn field, formed by the breakup of an asteroid that e

Moray, Scotland (SPX) Feb 18, 2022
Ambitious plans to create hundreds of high quality jobs and business opportunities by developing a North Highland and Moray 'space cluster' have received a 38,000 pound boost from the UK Space Agency. A strategy to develop the cluster, funded by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL), was published last September by Caithness and North Sutherland

Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 15, 2022
The moon is top of mind for many national space programs and private companies, with some planning to send humans back to the lunar surface as early as 2025. In advance, scientists are launching satellites and other payloads to orbit the moon. But so far, no one has kept track of just how many artificial objects are already up there, or where they are at any given moment. Without a way to

Boca Raton FL (SPX) Feb 18, 2022
Small-satellite pioneer Terran Orbital Corporation ("Terran Orbital") was awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics to provide three microsatellite class satellites, launch procurement, integration, and operations in support of product demonstration. "We are thrilled Terran Orbital will be part of another program with Lockheed Martin. This contract award provides an exciting opport

Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 18, 2022
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company says it will have to build more of its New Shepard rockets in order to meet the "very robust demand" for space tourism, the company's CEO said. At the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith said the company had "thousands of people in the auction process" for tickets, indicating "very ro

Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Feb 18, 2022
As long-distance space travel transforms from a science fiction fantasy to a near-future reality, humanity is faced with a complex challenge: Can people socially and culturally adapt to and survive spending years hurtling across the universe in a contained, artificial space? Shawn Graham, a digital archaeologist and historian at Carleton University, is working with the International Space

Washington DC (UPI) Feb 16, 2021
Europe needs its own crewed spaceship to build its space industry and talent, astronauts who gathered in France said in an official manifesto Wednesday. Dozens of astronauts endorsed the statement that "we need to be able to count on our own autonomous access to space for humans," according to the manifesto presented at the 2022 European Space Summit in Toulouse. It calls on Euro

Paris (AFP) Feb 15, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron this week will announce that French troops will be withdrawn from Mali and redeployed elsewhere in the Sahel following a breakdown in ties with the country's military regime, concurring sources say. Several security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Macron's announcement to end the nine-year French mission in Mali will coincide with a