Barely four months after breaking ground, SpaceX has completed a dual-bay Starship engine test stand and inaugurated the new facility with a Raptor static fire. That means that SpaceX’s McGregor, Texas test and development center now has more capacity to test individual Starship engines than the Merlin 1D and Merlin Vacuum engines that power the […]

О создании миниатюрного лунохода объявило Японское агентство аэрокосмических исследований (JAXA) на своем сайте. Главная цель аппарата – исследование лунной пыли...

Невероятно крутая лекция Брета Коупленда на мероприятии Stack Overflow 2016 Remote Meetup in Philadelphia.
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Команда Alpha Centauri благодарит Брета за разрешение перевести, озвучить и опубликовать его лекцию на YouTube.
The Alpha Centauri team thanks Bret for his permission to translate and publish his Talk on YouTube.
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All real-life photos and videos (except the last slide) were produced by NASA. Everything that looks hand-drawn was done by Bret Copeland on a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet in ArtRage. Animations were done in After Effects. Between the concept, outline, script, artwork, animations, rehearsals, and editing, Bret spent somewhere around 200 hours over two months working on it. Very little time was spent researching. In case it wasn't obvious, I've been more than a little obsessed with the topic for years now.
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Перевёл Максим Рудь
Озвучил Павел Поцелуев
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