Month: January 2021

SAN FRANCISCO – Chinese startup Spacety released the first images from Hisea-1, a C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, launched Dec. 22 on China’s new Long March 8 medium-lift rocket. Three days after launch, Spacety began receiving data from Hisea-1’s SAR payload built by the China Electronics Technology Group. On Dec. 27, Spacety acquired its
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WASHINGTON — A NASA small launch vehicle competition attracted bids from 10 companies, but half of them were effectively disqualified because of deficiencies or other problems. NASA announced Dec. 11 it was awarding contracts to Astra Space, Firefly Aerospace and Relativity Space for its Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) Demo 2 program. The contracts, with
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Gerry Marsden, leader of the Merseybeat quartet Gerry & the Pacemakers, has died. Marsden’s friend Pete Price—a broadcaster based in Liverpool—broke the news on social media earlier today (January 3), stating that Marsden died following a short illness stemming from a heart infection. Marsden’s death was subsequently confirmed by the BBC. He was 78 years
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The specialty box office space entered 2021 with two fresh titles and one under-the-radar pic with Vertical Entertainment’s Shadow In The Cloud, Netflix’s Pieces of a Woman and Amazon Studios’ Herself. In general, reporting on box office numbers has been tricky ground considering circumstances and that will continue in 2021 — especially with the specialty box
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Dawn of the final day. We return to work tomorrow. Every year Graham opens the secret panel in the back of all our heads (with a little screwdriver) and removes our batteries so we don’t cause any trouble over the break. On January the 4th he’ll put new ones in, but to keep you amused
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Valve has revealed its Steam “Best of 2020” lists, highlighting the best-selling and most played games on the digital storefront this year. While Valve doesn’t rank the games, meaning we don’t know what the overall best selling game on Steam is, nor does it include data like overall revenue, it does give a detailed peak
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Eccentric and unpredictable filmmaker Quentin Tarantino first made a name for himself as an actor in key films like Reservoir Dogs (which he also directed) and Desperado before his talents as a director began to seize the hearts and minds of American audiences. He’d already had a smash hit in 1994’s Pulp Fiction, and he’d soon follow it up with Jackie Brown in 1997. RELATED: Kill Bill:
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