Month: November 2025

Japan: Wissenschaftler übertragen Strom mit LED-Licht

In Innenräumen können mehrere IoT-Geräte gleichzeitig ohne Unterbrechung betrieben werden. Außerdem ist die Technik sicherer als Laseranwendungen. (LED, IoT)

In Innenräumen können mehrere IoT-Geräte gleichzeitig ohne Unterbrechung betrieben werden. Außerdem ist die Technik sicherer als Laseranwendungen. (LED, IoT)

Rocket Report: SpaceX’s next-gen booster fails; Pegasus will fly again

With the government shutdown over, the FAA has lifted its daytime launch curfew.

Welcome to Edition 8.20 of the Rocket Report! For the second week in a row, Blue Origin dominated the headlines with news about its New Glenn rocket. After a stunning success November 13 with the launch and landing of the second New Glenn rocket, Jeff Bezos’ space company revealed a roadmap this week showing how engineers will supercharge the vehicle with more engines. Meanwhile, in South Texas, SpaceX took a step toward the first flight of the next-generation Starship rocket. There will be no Rocket Report next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. We look forward to resuming delivery of all the news in space lift the first week of December.

As always, we welcome reader submissions. If you don’t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets, as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Northrop’s Pegasus rocket wins a rare contract. A startup named Katalyst Space Technologies won a $30 million contract from NASA in August to build a robotic rescue mission for the agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in low-Earth orbit. Swift, in space since 2004, is a unique instrument designed to study gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the Universe. The spacecraft lacks a propulsion system and its orbit is subject to atmospheric drag, and NASA says it is “racing against the clock” to boost Swift’s orbit and extend its lifetime before it falls back to Earth. On Wednesday, Katalyst announced it selected Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus XL rocket to send the rescue craft into orbit next year.

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(g+) Spring Rest Docs und AsciiDoc: Web-APIs automatisiert dokumentieren

Eine gute Dokumentation ist für Web-APIs entscheidend. Mit Spring Rest Docs und Ascii Doc klappt das auch automatisiert. Wir zeigen, wie. Eine Anleitung von Christoph Huber (Softwareentwicklung, Java)

Eine gute Dokumentation ist für Web-APIs entscheidend. Mit Spring Rest Docs und Ascii Doc klappt das auch automatisiert. Wir zeigen, wie. Eine Anleitung von Christoph Huber (Softwareentwicklung, Java)

Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

The company is pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn.

In letters sent to Apple, Google, and Microsoft this week, Pornhub’s parent company urged the tech giants to support device-based age verification in their app stores and across their operating systems, WIRED has learned.

“Based on our real-world experience with existing age assurance laws, we strongly support the initiative to protect minors online,” reads the letter sent by Anthony Penhale, chief legal officer for Aylo, which owns Pornhub, Brazzers, Redtube, and YouPorn. “However, we have found site-based age assurance approaches to be fundamentally flawed and counterproductive.”

The letter adds that site-based age verification methods have “failed to achieve their primary objective: protecting minors from accessing age-inappropriate material online.” Aylo says device-based authentication is a better solution for this issue because once a viewer’s age is determined via phone or tablet, their age signal can be shared over its application programming interface (API) with adult sites.

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Newest Starship booster is significantly damaged during testing early Friday

SpaceX had big plans for the upgraded Starship vehicle that failed on Friday morning.

During the pre-dawn hours in South Texas on Friday morning, SpaceX’s next-generation Starship first stage suffered some sort of major damage during pre-launch testing.

The company had only rolled the massive rocket out of the factory a day earlier, noting the beginning of its test campaign said on the social media site X: “The first operations will test the booster’s redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength.”

That testing commenced on Thursday night at the Massey’s Test Site, a couple of miles down the road from the company’s main production site at Starbase Texas. However an independent video showed the rocket’s lower half undergo an explosive (or possibly implosive) event at 4:04 am CT (10:04 UTC) Friday.

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