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As the search for our Bird of The Century draws closer, Ōtepotis Koizilla today release

Getting real about the impossible standard of the ‘hairless norm’.

Ōtautahis Model Home today share their debut album …And Nobody Made A Sound via Aotearoa

Triston Michael O’Connor, 17, of West End, was called home to be with our Lord Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. He was a beloved son, brother, grandson, and friend.

SpaceX to launch Starlink rideshare mission as constellation deployment milestone nears May 15, 2021 SpaceX is set to launch its third Starlink mission in just 11 days on the v1.0 L26 flight. The mission will bring the total number of operational Starlink v1.0 satellites launched to near 1,567 – just shy of the 1,584 needed to declare all of the first shell of Starlinks launched. The mission, with 52 Starlink satellites and two rideshare payloads (Capella Whitney 4 and Tyvak-0130), is schedul...

SpaceX resumes parallel pad operations with Starlink v1.0 L25 mission May 4, 2021 Both of SpaceX’s Florida launch pads are back into Starlink launch flow as the company continues to deploy the satellite internet constellation with the Starlink v1.0 L25 mission lifting off from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 15:01 EDT / 19:01 UTC on Tuesday, 4 May. Following a relatively quiet stretch at 39A surrounding the crucial Crew-2 mission, another wave of Starlink satellite batches will now laun...

Local Produce: Night Lunch Night Lunch are a Dunedin duo of Liams made famous by the smash hit music video for their song House Full of Shit. The band features the uniquely minimalist combo of Liam Hoffman on drums and Liam Clune on a home-made instrument called a diddly bow. Hoffman has finished Uni but Clune has come back for round two. They’ve so far released two albums on Spotify: ‘Double Trouble’ and ‘Table for Two’. Clune initially just made the diddly bow for fun. “I had se...

ULA completes Delta IV Heavy pad upgrades ahead of NROL-82 mission April 19, 2021 United Launch Alliance (ULA) has recently made pad upgrades to Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, ahead of the upcoming Delta IV Heavy launch of the NROL-82 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office scheduled for April 26 at 15:39 EDT / 19:39 UTC. The previous Delta IV Heavy mission, NROL-44 from SLC-37B at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was plagued by numerous issues, scrubs, ...

NASA SLS Green Run testing complete, Boeing readies Core Stage for tow to Florida April 12, 2021 NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) program and prime Core Stage contractor Boeing wrapped up the Green Run testing campaign on the Artemis 1 flight article at the Stennis Space Center and are readying the vehicle for its long-awaited shipment to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. After reviewing the performance of the vehicle from its second test-firing in mid-March, NASA and Boeing agreed t...

Aerojet Rocketdyne refurbishing RS-25 engines for Artemis 1 launch and production restart testing April 9, 2021 With the completion of another single-engine RS-25 development test, Aerojet Rocketdyne is now refurbishing five engines at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for their next use. After the second test firing of the Retrofit 2 series in the A-1 Test Stand on April 6, development engine 0528 is going through a streamlined refurbishment prior to its next firing as a part of the prod...