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The North Korean government has announced it will attempt to launch another satellite after the loss of a military satellite in May.North Korean officials informed Japan's Coast Guard that the launch will fly over the Yellow Sea and East China Sea and occur between Aug. 24 and Aug. 31.
Spaceflight Now@SpaceflightNowThe Indian space agency has released the first image from the lunar surface taken by its Chandrayaan 3 lander: https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/08/23/liv
The mouse that starvedNorth Korea planning to launch a satellite this week amid military tensionshttps://www.space.com/north-korea-satellite-launch-attempt-august-2023
North Korea said Aug. 24 its second attempt to launch a spy satellite ended in failure due to an “error in the emergency blasting system” during the third-stage flight.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday filed a lawsuit against SpaceX accusing the company of discriminating against asylum seekers and refugees in its hiring decisions.The DOJ alleges that SpaceX "routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)." According to the suit, SpaceX wrongly claimed that federal regulations related to export controls restricted the company to only hiring U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, also known as green card holders.
The DOJ's announcement noted that the permission granted by the federal government for asylees and refugees to live and work in the U.S. doesn't expire. The agency added that there is no restriction on asylees or refugees working for companies that have to comply with export controls.
Our government.https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/doj-files-lawsuit-accusing-spacex-hiring-discrimination-against-refugees-asylum-seekers
So SpaceX has to comply with one federal law (or is it a regulation?) and break another in the process. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Live in 2 hoursAugust 24 at 11:30 PMSpaceX & NASA Launch Crew-7 to Space StationNASASpaceflight806K subscribers107 waiting Scheduled for Aug 24, 2023SpaceX is launching the Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station. Onboard Crew Dragon Endurance are commander Jasmin Moghbeli (NASA), pilot Andreas Mogensen (ESA), mission specialists Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA) and Konstantin Borisov (Roscosmos). The launch is planned for 3:49 AM local time.
SpaceX@SpaceXSuper Heavy Booster 9 static fire successfully lit all 33 Raptor engines, with all but two running for the full duration. Congratulations to the SpaceX team on this exciting milestone!
BENGALURU — After claiming to have landed near the south pole of the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) released what they claim is the first photo taken by their lunar lander. Unfortunately, several critics have called the authenticity of the photo into question as it features Bollywood dancers, an astronaut on a tiger, and a man riding a rocket narrowly escaping an explosion as he backflips onto the lunar surface."Hmmmm, If I didn't know better, I'd say this photo was elaborately staged by a Bollywood film crew," said NASA engineer Ron McNeebles. "I'm not a zoologist, but I don't think tigers can breathe in space, can they? It's possible this landing was faked."
LabPadre@LabPadreMidbay falls under the cover of darkness. Out with the old, in with the new. #SpaceX #Starbase
