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- Levels Health review: optimize your fitness with a $400 glucose tracker
- Elon Musk says Raptor engine production is a ‘disaster’ that puts SpaceX at risk of bankruptcy
- NASA delays spacewalk due to threat of space debris
| Levels Health review: optimize your fitness with a $400 glucose tracker Posted: 30 Nov 2021 10:07 AM PST  Real-time glucose tracking for fitness-based purposes is here, but it'll cost you |
| Elon Musk says Raptor engine production is a ‘disaster’ that puts SpaceX at risk of bankruptcy Posted: 30 Nov 2021 08:45 AM PST  On Black Friday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sent an anxious email to his company's employees, urging them to work over the weekend on SpaceX's Raptor engine line and describing the production situation as a "crisis." In the email, a copy of which was obtained by The Verge, Musk argued that the company faces a "genuine risk of bankruptcy" if production doesn't increase to support a high flight rate of the company's new Starship rocket next year. The Raptor is SpaceX's massive methane engine that will be used to propel the company's next-generation launch system, called Starship. SpaceX plans to use Starship to take people to deep space, and in April, NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to develop Starship as a lunar lander to transport... |
| NASA delays spacewalk due to threat of space debris Posted: 30 Nov 2021 06:03 AM PST  Early this morning, NASA postponed a spacewalk scheduled to occur outside the International Space Station today, after getting word of a possible safety threat from some nearby space debris. It's unclear where the debris is coming from, but the delay comes about two weeks after Russia blew up one of its own satellites in orbit, creating thousands of dangerous fragments that threatened the space station. NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Thomas Marshburn were all set to don spacesuits and leave the confines of the ISS this morning at around 7:10AM ET, in order to replace an antenna on the outside of the station. It would have been the fifth spacewalk for Marshburn and the first for Barron. |
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