Month: June 2022

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Do you have a passion for technology and the ability to write about it well? If so, let's talk.

Ars is looking for a Technology Reporter/Product Specialist. In short, we want someone who knows a lot about smart homes, networking, NAS, Android, tablets, wearables, and/or PCs and loves to write about them. You don't need to know everything about all of those things, but you should have deep knowledge in one of those areas as well as the intellectual curiosity to learn more about everything our tech and reviews section covers.

Job description

• Write regularly on technology product news, including but not limited to smart home appliances, networking, network-attached storage, Android, PCs, laptops, peripherals, tablets, and other gadgets
• Liveblog product announcements as directed
• Take photographs and edit images as appropriate for reviews and news coverage
• Work with editors to generate story ideas
• Write occasional feature-length articles on in-depth topics as assigned
• Travel as required
• Other journalistic duties as directed by management

• 2 or more years of professional writing experience a must
• Ability to produce high-quality product reviews and analysis that match the Ars style of writing
• Deep knowledge of tech gear, such as smart home devices, networking, wearables, operating systems, and/or PC hardware
• Commitment to technical depth (and learning to go deeper) and to the craft of writing
• Passion for the latest and greatest technology products

This is a union position.

Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket first stage launches for the 13th time on June 17, 2022. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)

Welcome to Edition 4.47 of the Rocket Report! It has been a big week for NASA, with the near completion of its wet-dress rehearsal test for the Space Launch System rocket. Assuming final preparations go well, this sets up a huge launch in a couple of months that we will be following with great interest.

As always, we welcome reader submissions, and 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.

South Korea successfully launches its own rocket. The three-stage Nuri rocket, built by the government’s Korea Aerospace Research Institute with hundreds of local companies, ​blasted off from the Naro Space Center in Goheung​ on Tuesday, The New York Times reports. Seventy minutes after the​ liftoff, South Korea announced that ​Nuri had succeeded in its mission of ​thrusting a ​357-pound ​working ​satellite, as well as a 162-kg dummy satellite​, into orbit ​435 miles above the Earth.