🔗 Articles: Monday 13.May.2024
UPI: SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida
SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday night, bringing the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit to just over 6,000.
This was the 15th mission for the reusable booster rocket, which launches the spacecraft into orbit, largely under the power of a million pounds of rocket-grade kerosene. Nine of its launches have been Starlink missions.
After separation, the booster returned to the drone ship called A Shortfall of Gravitas, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, and will be reconditioned for a future mission.
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SpaceX has been authorized to deploy 12,000 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit and has applied for approval for an additional 30,000.
NBC: Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names.
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, early Friday approved a proposal that will restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools.
The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a previous board’s decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby, three men who led the pro-slavery Southern states during the Civil War.
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The vote in Shenandoah County comes as conservative groups across the U.S. increasingly push back against efforts to reckon with race in America in educational settings, including efforts to limit classroom discussion of racial identity, ban library books dealing with racial themes, and derail diversity plans.
Globe: Three firms tied to ArriveCan app got $1-billion in federal contracts, Ottawa reveals
Three government contractors involved in developing the ArriveCan app have received hundreds of federal contracts worth more than $1-billion over the past 13 years.
Until now, the federal government has not been able to provide a clear breakdown of how much contract work the three companies have been awarded. The new numbers were provided to MPs on the public accounts committee and a copy was obtained by The Globe and Mail.
The three companies have been at the centre of parliamentary scrutiny into the sharp increase in federal outsourcing on professional services – from about $8-billion a year in 2016 to projections of more than $21-billion last year.
Globe: Carbon capture plan faces doubts after Capital Power cancels $2.4-billion project
The Edmonton-based power generator announced in its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday that it is discontinuing pursuit of the $2.4-billion project because it does not work financially. It had previously said that the proposal would annually capture up to 3 million tonnes of emissions from natural-gas units at its Genesee generating station in Alberta.
All smoke and mirrors.
Electrek: Tesla’s head of Cybertruck manufacturing is out
Tesla’s head of Cybertruck manufacturing has left the company. It’s unclear if he was involved in yet another round of layoffs or if he left on his own accord.
Over the last month, Tesla has been conducting several major waves of layoffs across its entire organization.
At least 10% of the workforce has been let go, but Electrek has heard that as much as 20% of the entire headcount could be gone by the time everything is said and done.
The massive destruction continues.
SportsNet: Canucks’ Carson Soucy suspended one game for cross-checking Oilers’ Connor McDavid
Vancouver Canucks defenceman Carson Soucy has been suspended one game for cross-checking Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid, the NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced Monday.
The incident occurred at the end of the Canucks’ 4-3 win over the Oilers in Game 3 Sunday in Edmonton.
CBC: Gas station chain’s 29-year lease on reserve land is invalid, B.C. judge rules
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Agreement between Super Save and Penticton Indian Band members was example of ‘buckshee lease’: judge.
CBC: Trump’s former lawyer ‘beyond angry’ he wasn’t offered senior White House post, trial told
He described his reaction when he learned that Stormy Daniels was shopping around her story, just days after the release of an explosive Access Hollywood tape that captured Trump describing crude, unwanted sexual advances against women.
Of the decision to pay $130,000 US to keep Daniels quiet, Cohen said the motivation was politics, not about keeping the news from Trump’s wife. “He wasn’t thinking about Melania. This was all about the campaign,” said Cohen, who summed up his own reaction at the time: “Catastrophic. This is horrible for the campaign.”
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Cohen testified that he remembered Trump telling him: “This is a disaster, a total disaster. Women will hate me. Guys — they’ll think it’s cool. But this is going to be a disaster for the campaign.” He said Trump ordered him to deal with it and make sure it didn’t emerge before the election.
Last Updated: 13.May.2024 18:37 EDT