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When asking a Bloober Team developer to give me his elevator pitch for Layers of Fear at this year’s Game Developers Conference, it became clear just how complicated the project is. On paper, it’s a remake of both the original Layers of Fear and its sequel, rolled into one Frankenstein package. That’s underselling it, though. The package contains tons of new content as well, which extends both games and retroactively links their stories together. “Remake” doesn’t really scratch the surface at all. I finally learned…

Just last month, NASA launched a small probe called the Lunar Flashlight toward the moon. The small probe was expected to test a new green propellant on its four-month voyage to the moon, where it would then search for water ice on the moon. However, the probe has encountered an issue, and its thrusters have failed to perform as expected. NASA has been planning to send its Lunar Flashlight probe to the moon for several years, and it finally launched the small satellite (or SmallSat) in December of 2022. Just a…

A briefcase-sized satellite on its way to the moon is experiencing difficulties with its thrusters. NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft is a small uncrewed satellite designed to search the moon’s south pole for surface ice using near-infrared lasers. Launched in December last year using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the satellite was deployed along with a private Japanese moon mission which includes a rover built by the UAE. Lunar Flashlight is still on its way to the moon as part of its four-month planned journey,…

An artist’s impression of Lunar Flashlight scanning a permanently shadowed region on the Moon. Illustration: NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA’s Lunar Flashlight is on a mission to hunt for water ice on the Moon’s surface, but the mission appears to be in trouble as three of the craft’s four thrusters are “underperforming,” according to NASA.The Lunar Flashlight team is in the midst of evaluating the three problematic thrusters as the spacecraft journeys toward the Moon, NASA said in a press release. Lunar Flashlightlaunched…

The two astronomers had tracked NASA's Lunar Flashlight satellite by using a remote 0.5-meter telescope in Australia. NASA launched the Lunar Surface Flashlight Mission on December 11, 2022, it is a mission planned to use lasers to find out surface water ice inside craters at the moon's south pole, which is a part of the moon in permanent shadowed. On the same day, another private HAKUTO-R spacecraft mission was launched. In a significant achievement, on their journey towards the moon, both the spacecraft were…

“For me, this is a dream measurement,” says David Paige, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles who has been part of the mission since its inception nearly a decade ago. “It’s an opportunity to make a real rapid advancement with such a small spacecraft.” Once the team has mapped out the distribution of surface ice at the South Pole, they can use it to guide future landers, rovers, and eventually humans to places where they can collect frosty samples. Today’s astronauts are stuck having to pack…

This illustration shows NASA’s Lunar Flashlight over the Moon. The SmallSat mission will have a very elongated orbit, taking it within 9 miles (15 kilometers) above the lunar South Pole to search for water ice in the Moon’s darkest craters. Credit: NASA<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…

The top LED light on the Garmin Enduro 2 lights up the dark Matthew Miller/ZDNETEarlier this year, I tested out the Garmin Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar watch and enjoyed using the LED flashlight. However, the AMOLED display on the Garmin Epix swayed me to using that watch instead. In September, the Garmin Enduro 2 and Fenix 7X also has a night mode where a red color image is shown to help you maintain your night vision.Of all the other watches I have tested, the Apple Watch Ultra performed the best and I could…

Artistic impression of ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander. Image: ispaceSpaceX is readying a Falcon 9 rocket for launch onearly Wednesday morning. The mission, featuring both private and public payloads, exemplifies the current state of the spaceflight industry and the changing manner in which we’re exploring space.It’s a fairly routine launch for SpaceX, but the mission packs a big punch. Packed aboard the Falcon 9 rocket is ispace’s Hakuto-R spacecraft, which is itself packed with an assortment of goodies bound for the…

SpaceX is about to launch NASA’s Lunar Flashlight satellite, as well as HAKUTO-R Mission 1, the first privately led Japanese mission to land on the lunar surface. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the payloads will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in the early hours of Wednesday, November 30 and will be streamed online as it happens. Check below for the precise details on how to watch. The briefcase-sized Lunar Flashlight satellite will use lasers to search for water ice in permanently shadowed craters at the…