After years of preparation, numerous tests, and an unfortunate number of setbacks, NASA’s James Webb … [+] Space Telescope is fully built and assembled. As of October 6, 2020, it has completed its full suite of environmental tests: the last challenging, and potentially blocking, milestone keeping us from a successful launch.
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Despite numerous delays, funding crises, and technical challenges, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready.
The science instruments aboard the ISIM module being lowered and installed into the main assembly of … [+] JWST in 2016. These instruments have been complete for nearly a decade, and have passed all of their rigorous tests. They, along with the rest of James Webb, are ready for launch.
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Every single component is fully built, assembled, and integrated.
Engineers conduct a “Center of Curvature” test on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in the clean … [+] room at
Dust blowing onto high mountains in the western Himalayas is a bigger factor than previously thought in hastening the melting of snow there, researchers show in a study published Oct. 5 in Nature Climate Change.
That’s because dust — lots of it in the Himalayas — absorbs sunlight, heating the snow that surrounds it.
“It turns out that dust blowing hundreds of miles from parts of Africa and Asia and landing at very high elevations has a broad impact on the snow cycle in a region that is home to one of the largest masses of snow and ice on Earth,” said Yun Qian, atmospheric scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Qian and Chandan Sarangi, formerly a postdoctoral associate at PNNL and now at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India, are corresponding authors of the study.
Marvel’s Avengers has had a tough launch. The game has endeared itself to players with a strong story and a pretty fun post-campaign live game component–even though the two parts didn’t really gel–but it’s been plagued with bugs since its release. With a new update, developer Crystal Dynamics is hoping to clear out the infestation, claiming to address more than 1,000 issues. Some of these are relatively small, while other fixes are for game-breaking bugs.
As Crystal Dynamics notes on the Avengers website, Update 1.3.0 is the first big patch since Avengers’ launch, built in response to bug reports it has received from players on Reddit and elsewhere. The focus is mostly on bugs at this point, with quality-of-life changes coming down the line in later updates. For the time being, though, there are a lot of bugs to patch, ranging from weird graphical issues to major problems.
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