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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches second batch of 40 OneWeb satellites

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SpaceX has successfully completed its second launch for OneWeb, carrying another 40 of the London-based company’s small communications satellites into orbit. kilometers per second) at an altitude of 70 kilometers (44 mi), B1076 separated from the upper stage and boosted back to the Florida coast. Richard Angle).

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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He started selling the idea to me and even bribed me by promising an internship at Philips , where he had connections. He designed and built the first random-access LAN that uses fiber-optic connections, long before Ethernet became the standard. “Kreiken told me studying anything else was absolutely crazy,” Gelenbe recalls. “He

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Can the Artemis Moon Mission Revive the Glamour of Big Tech?

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They rained down on Paris, London, and other cities, killing 9,000 people , mostly civilians. But when von Braun’s Apollo program came to fruition, in the late 1960s, huge crowds gathered every few months on the Florida coast to watch the thundering Saturn V rockets take off. It was a partylike atmosphere and a joyous time.