India united in celebration as its third space mission Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the lunar south pole, the first of its kind. The mission, which was approved by the Indian government in September 2020, touched down on the lunar south pole, much to the excitement of the scientific community. The mission was twofold: to land… Continue reading India’s Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully lands on the lunar south pole
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UK narrows antitrust probe of Microsoft-Activision
Recently, the UK’s competition regulator has closed its antitrust investigation into the union of Microsoft and Activision. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that, after closely examining the merger, it concluded that the combination of Microsoft and Activision does not raise any competition concerns in the UK markets. The merger between the two giant… Continue reading UK narrows antitrust probe of Microsoft-Activision
RIP AIM: NASA Probe Retires From Observing Clouds at the Edge of Space
On Friday, August 7th, 2020, NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission officially retired after 14 years of observing ‘noctilucent’ clouds at the edge of space. Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds in Earth’s atmosphere, occurring near the edge of space, 80 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. These clouds, which form above mesospheric… Continue reading RIP AIM: NASA Probe Retires From Observing Clouds at the Edge of Space