The reported missile test took place around 10.17 a.m. local time on Tuesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported. The South Korean military said that at least one missile was fired from a launch site near the North Korean port city of Sinpo in central South Hamgyong Province. There …
Read More »China launches 2nd manned flight to Tiangong space station
The crew of the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft is set to stay on the Tianhe core module for 183 days – the longest in Chinese history – before returning to Earth in April 2022. The taikonauts are 55-year-old Zhai Zhigang, 41-year-old Wang Yaping, and 41-year-old Ye Guangfu. The last crew returned to …
Read More »Yappy: Russia’s Gazprom-Media launches domestic competitor to wildly popular Chinese video-sharing social network TikTok
Called ‘Yappy’, the social network has been described by its creators are an app where users can create vertical videos up to 60 seconds long, similar to TikTok. It is being aimed at Russians aged 14-34, with the company wishing to attract those who are “passionate about self-development and career.” …
Read More »Pyongyang launches ‘unidentified projectile’ just as North Korean ambassador takes UN stage – reports
The Japanese government announced a “possible ballistic missile” launch from North Korea on Tuesday, according to sources cited by Kyodo News and NHK, while South Korea’s Yonhap News noted that Pyongyang fired at least one “unidentified” projectile into the East Sea, citing the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, though provided few other details on the purported launch. Reports …
Read More »Not OK, Cupid: Woman rips down suggestive ads on New York subway, launches into anti-propaganda rant in viral video
A video of the incident, which made the rounds online on Wednesday and Thursday, begins with the woman ripping down a provocative ad for the dating app OKCupid. “All this is gross, all this is gross,” she told other passengers. “I don’t know, for kids to be looking at this, …
Read More »US Navy test-launches 2 life-extended Trident II ballistic missiles, amid row over nuclear-powered sub deal with Australia
The launch was conducted off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida on September 17 from USS Wyoming, an Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine which has been in commission since 1996, and recently underwent an technological overhaul and refueling. The D5LE is the latest ‘life-extended’ version of the Trident II missile …
Read More »SpaceX launches Inspiration4 from Florida as part of historic all-civilian space mission
Riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the Dragon spacecraft lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday evening. The separation of the rocket’s first stage appears to have been successful soon after launch, with the stage making a controlled reentry back to earth without issue, landing on …
Read More »CIVIL RIGHTS arm of US Department of Education launches investigation into Florida governor’s ban on obligatory masks in schools
US President Joe Biden’s administration seemingly did not waste time in responding to the Republican governor’s recent victory in the ongoing legal battle against mask mandates, with federal education officials announcing an inquiry into the state’s policy that allows parents to decide whether their children wear masks at school or …
Read More »Russia launches ‘Nauka’ multifunctional scientific lab module to International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome (VIDEO)
The launch, which took place at Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday afternoon, fired a Proton-M rocket into the sky, carrying the laboratory. Less than ten minutes after takeoff, Proton-M detached from the module, putting it into orbit. It is due to be docked to the Russian section of the ISS on …
Read More »Former top Trump aide launches GETTR social media app to ‘fight cancel culture’ & ‘defend common sense’
The app quietly went live in mid-June and there have been approximately a thousand downloads thus far across platform stores such as Google and Apple, according to Politico, without much advertisement. The platform will be officially launched on July 4, Miller tweeted on Thursday. GETTR’s description on the Apple Store …
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