Pavel Varenka So far, the week has flown by like water, and it wouldn't be a proper summary if there wasn't some mention of deep space. After all, it almost seems like everyone is trying to break all the records so far and send as many rockets and modules into orbit as possible before the end of the year. But we are not complaining at all, quite the opposite. In recent days, it has been full of interesting missions, whether it is a Japanese trip to the Ryuga asteroid or Elon Musk's promise that the Starship spacecraft will soon look at the Earth's atmosphere again. So we won't delay any longer and will jump straight into the whirlwind of events.
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Benjamin Levicek Cyberpunk 2077 is doing well. Night City is far from having its last word
If you haven't been living under a rock or perhaps in a cave for the past few years, you certainly haven't missed the game Cyberpunk 2077 from the workshop of our Polish neighbors, CD Projekt RED. Although it's been 8 long years since the announcement, the developers have been working diligently the whole time, and even more than healthy in the last few months. While the studio has come under fire for overworking its employees, with some office workers spending up to 60 hours a week, fans have accepted CDPR's humble apology and decided not to dwell too much on the issue. In any case, let's put the past aside and focus on the future. Quite a cyberpunk future to be exact.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is coming out in a few days, specifically on December 10, and as it turned out, the excessively high expectations were more or less fulfilled anyway for some reason. Although many reviewers complain about annoying bugs and glitches, in many cases these ailments are fixed by updates immediately upon release. Apart from that, however, according to many sources who were not afraid to award the game 9 to 10 out of 10, it is an excellent effort that perfectly combines elements of RPG, FPS and above all a completely unique genre that has no parallels in the gaming world. The average ratings are thus at a high above average level, and although many bad predicted failure of the language game, it will obviously not be so hot again. The bugs will be ironed out, but the epic adventure in Night City will remain. Are you looking forward to a trip to a dystopian future?
Japan's asteroid mission ended in success. The probe brought home a whole galaxy of samples
Although we have recently focused primarily on SpaceX, the space agency ESA, and other world-famous organizations, we must not forget other groundbreaking discoveries and missions that are happening in the completely opposite hemisphere. We are mainly talking about Japan and the mission when scientists set themselves the goal of sending a small Hayabusha 2 probe to the Ryuga asteroid. This lofty goal was to result in the collection of a sufficient number of samples that will subsequently be examined and analyzed here on Earth. But make no mistake, the initiative didn't happen overnight and the entire project took six long years, with it being somewhat unclear whether it would even be completed.
Landing a probe on an asteroid may sound banal, but it is an incredibly complex operation that must be calculated and, above all, planned so that the scientist is not surprised by several thousand variables. Even so, it was possible to successfully collect the samples and even transport them back to Earth. And as the deputy director of the JAXA company, under which the Institute for Space Flight and Science falls, said, this is a turning point that cannot be compared with other historical moments. However, the mission is far from over here, and even if its space part was successful, the alpha and omega will now sort the samples, transfer them to the laboratories and ensure adequate analysis. We'll see what else awaits us.
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Amaya Toman Elon Musk is once again bragging about his creations. This time it was the Starship's turn
We talk about the legendary visionary Elon Musk almost every day. However, it's not every day that the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla shows off unique photos of one of his creations, such as the Starship spaceship. In its case, we can argue about the extent to which it is an ordinary rocket, but it is still an impressive piece of work. In addition, it must be noted that the current design is only experimental and should change beyond recognition. Although the ship looks like a "giant flying silo", it is still a prototype, in which case it is only a test of the petrol engines and how they can cope with the huge size.
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In any case, the turning point should be the next Starship test, which will shoot the giant to a height of 12.5 kilometers, which will perfectly test not only whether the engines can support such a weight at all, but above all the mobility and motor skills of the spaceship. One way or another, failure is also expected, as Elon Musk said a few months ago. After all, building such a gigantic ship is a long shot, and it simply cannot be done without some hitch. In any case, we can only wait to see how the situation develops, keep our fingers crossed for the engineering team and, above all, hope that SpaceX has some epic design proposals in store that will turn the Starship into a real futuristic ship.
Out on the pad in South Texas pic.twitter.com/RcYOXXpTc2
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2020
