Recent comments by the head of Roscosmos have confirmed that the Proton rocket is on its way out, to be replaced by the Angara in the future. So let's talk about the Proton, and its heritage.
Exos aerospace performed another test launch yesterday, demonstrating their SARGE rocket - Suborbital Autonomous Rocket with GuidancE. But SARGE is a continuation of Stig which was developed by John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, hoping to provide a reusable sounding rocket platform for zero G experiments.
Exos Aerospace
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2dmwg4BVRAznfQgdhTm7w
Armadillo Aerospace
https://www.youtube.com/user/armadilloaerospace
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNlhvX1f4Fo
Subset games have just released a huge update to FTL full of tons of new features and ways for the RNG to brutally punish you for picking the 'Hard' mode.
http://www.ftlgame.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilrgQSo1Nmo
After finding out there was a company developing a smallsat launch vehicle practically in my back yard I hard to find out more. However the company is still in stealth mode - even calling themselves "Stealth Space Company" on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/stealth-space-company/) - but between sightings of their booster, public documents, grants and leases I've got a pretty good idea of what their booster is like.
The public rocket views come from a local news station which caught site of the booster in Alameda
https://abc7news.com/technology/sky7-spots-stealthy-space-startup-testing-its-rocket-in-alameda/3097474/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlsZysPeidI
Danny Baranowsky - Video game Music Composer - http://dbsoundworks.com/
Alex Parker - Astronomer - http://vimeo.com/alexhp
Colin Walsh - Developer of Drifter - http://www.celsiusgs.com/drifter/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYDN1y6OSVk
Timing plays a huge part in KSP due to planetary alignment, launch windows and travel time. Kerbal Construction time enhances the game by adding construction and research time to your launch plans, making the game just a little bit harder, especially when you have an emergency and need a launch vehicle ASAP.
http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/92377-0-90-Kerbal-Crush-Saga-Rocket-Fire-Age-%28formerly-Kerbal-Construction-Time%29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnn30SvF8IQ
With a title like 'Space Food Truck' you can bet there's some strange genre mashups going on, but to add to the mix this is a 4 player cooperative card game played on a computer.
It's also quite addictive, in a similar way to FTL.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wxFxVHjOvI
We don't have much information, but, Roscosmos confirmed that a pre-landing maneuver delivered too much delta V and the spacecraft crashed into the moon at orbital velocity instead of transitioning to landing phase.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_P9BVYsSIs
Meltdown and Spectre present 3 different ways of attacking data protection measures on CPUs enabling attackers to read data they shouldn't be able to. Unfortunately this affects every intel CPU since 1995 and the fix will slow windows down by as much as 30%. AMD processors won't require this fix thankfully, but many pieces of software are in the process of being patched to fix this.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ILCoU9d4k