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A Polish called the police for a fallen tank from heaven. It is from a spacex rocket that rented without control in Europe

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The second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket of Spacex rented last night without control over Europe, illuminating the sky of several Central European countries with flashes as they burned in the atmosphere. Not all the rocket disintegrated. This morning they found a deposit in Poland. Night show. From Germany, From Denmark, From Poland itself. They were not even 5 in the morning, but on social networks they began to appear videos of the Metal remains Burning with drama in the night sky of central Europe. Atmospheric resentments are a show that we are increasing 13.8 meters long by 3.66 meters in diameter. A tank fell in Poland. It is not usual for a Spacex rocket to resent without control, so it is even less common for him to do so in a place as densely populated as Europe. But the rocket did not disintegrate completely and part of the remains fell, without causing damage, on the outskirts of Poznań, a city of half a million inhabitants west of Poland. At 9:20 in the morning, an employee of an industrial plant He warned the police that an object had “fallen from heaven” in its facilities. It was a pressure tank coated with carbon fiber (COPV) identical to the one that appeared on a Washington farm in 2021. Trajectory of the reentry of the rocket on Europe according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell On that occasion, it was confirmed that it was A helium deposit of the second stage of a Falcon 9. The object, of a meter and a half of length, is pressurized to 400 bars and is capable of resisting extreme conditions, including the reentry. In the Washington farm left a crater of 10 centimeters deep on the earth, a sample of the speed at which he re -entered the atmosphere. It was a rocket failure. Spacex is the Ryanair of Space, the company that launches most rockets with a difference: two to three per week. Does this mean that we will have to go out with a helmet to the street? Not necessarily. Like most rockets (China has notorious exceptions), The second stage of the Falcon 9 fuel reserve to exorbitite on the ocean with a motor re -desence once the load is deployed. In this case, the remains that fell on Europe are due to a technical failure in the launch of the Starlink 11-4 mission, which He failed to readece his engine to exorbitar on February 2. The rocket spin around the earth to enter the atmosphere naturally due to gravity. He did it on February 19, 3:43 UTC, in a trajectory extended to Ukraine and that coincides with the remains found in Poland. Images | Ludi-e, Adam Borucki (X) In Xataka | A strange object appeared in a Glamping of North Carolina. They were the remains of a Spacex spacecraft

The possible cancellation of NASA’s SLS rocket

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Its development has cost NASA 3,000 million dollars a year. Each launch will involve another 2,000 million. It is not a novelty that the SLS rocket manufactured by Boeing is seen as a expensive and outdated option in front of the Spacex Starship or Blue Origin’s New Glenn. But considering that these are not ready to fly to the moon, the cancellation of the SLS was not something that Boeing had … until now. A six -minute meeting. Boeing has about 800 employees dedicated to lunar SLS rocket. David Dutcher, the program director, gathered them on Friday to tell them that contracts could end in March under the new NASA administration. The company is preparing to face new layoffs in the event that contracts are not renewed, he told them. According to Ars Technicathe meeting was summoned less than an hour in advance and lasted six minutes. Dutcher had prepared what he was going to say, was cold and did not admit questions, according to an anonymous source. Context. The Space Launch System (SLS) is NASA’s rocket to return to the moon. Also one of the most controversial elements of the Lunar Artemis program. Its development, led by Boeing, began in 2011 taking advantage of technologies and components of previous programs, such as the space ferry. Although this strategy allowed to reuse infrastructure and previous knowledge, it also led to a series of complexities in the integration of modern systems with the hardware already tested, so it has ended up accumulating multiple delays and cost overheads. Of a rumor to a real possibility. Without an immediate alternative to the SLS, the rumors of cancellation of the rocket did not become a real possibility until Donald Trump was re -elected president and the young businessman Jared Isaacman, who traveled twice to the space with Spacex, nominated to direct NASA. It was precisely the first Trump administration that created the Lunar Artemis program in 2017, but under the influence of Elon Musk, the second Trump administration promises that both are compatible). Boeing prepares for the worst. It should be clarified that the United States Congress has not yet made any decision on NASA’s budget or a possible restructuring of Artemis missions, much less there is an established plan to get to Mars (it was supposed to first NASA would establish a base on the moon and then make the leap to the red planet). But Boeing is preparing for the worst scenario after the White House published a budget proposal with adjustments for fiscal year 2026. The law forces the company to notify employees 60 days in advance in case of mass layoffs or closure of plants, hence the meeting with the SLS program team has been hurried. The official Boeing statement. Far from hiding its forecasts, Boeing sent a statement to the media in which he confirms the possibility of fireing 400 employees in April 2025 to “align ourselves with reviews of the Artemis program and budget expectations.” “We are working with our client and looking for opportunities to redistribute employees throughout our company to minimize jobs losses and retain our talented teammates,” adds the statement. Image | NASA’S SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM In Xataka | Jared Isaacman still does not direct NASA, but it is already seen as the last nail in the coffin of a space giant: Boeing

Netflix is ​​going like a rocket but stops communicating its figures. The reason is simple: everything has a roof

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Netflix has announced its financial results for the last quarter of 2024, and they leave us with two closely related news. First, in 2025 new price increase is coming in countries around the world such as the United States or Portugal. Second, the number of subscribers has increased dramaticallymuch more than expected in the company’s own projections, leaving the global total at 302 million customers. The numbers. More specifically: in the United States the price for the standard plan with ads goes from $6.99 per month to $7.99, and from $15.49 per month to $17.99 in the standard plan. These are just some examples justified by the 19 million new subscribers that came to the platform in the fourth quarter of 2024. 9.8 million new subscribers were expected, so the results have far exceeded expectations, generating profits of 10.2 billion of dollars. A little more. As Netflix explains, “as we continue to invest in programming and offer more value to our partners, we will occasionally ask them to pay a little more so we can reinvest and continue improving Netflix.” That is, they are going to raise prices whenever they can, having become de facto in one of the most expensive options on the streaming scene (and if we compare it with specific competitors like Prime Video, Netflix is ​​a much more expensive option). However, he also knows that these increases have a limit. Communication is over. Possibly, Netflix already knew this in 2024. It was then, in April, when he announced that the fourth quarter of 2024, for which we have just received the data, would be the last in which Netflix would talk about the number of subscribers. From now on, apart from the audience and viewing figures that it will continue to communicate a couple of times a year, it will provide other types of data (profits, growth, budget), and will only report key subscriber figures when they are crossed. That is to say, very publicizable round numbers: possibly we will not hear about the subject again until they cross the threshold of 400 or 500 million subscribers. The ceiling is hit. What does this decision mean? Possibly, Netflix has calculated that it cannot grow much more (hence the surprise that the platform itself recognized at an increase in subscribers greater than calculated). They will stop communicating those numbers so as not to give the impression that their growth is being hindered, especially since Netflix’s growth points in other directions. The main one is the economic one: Netflix can increase its profits, and hence the price increase, as well as the recent measures that we have seen in recent months: ending shared accounts, tiers with ads… the Netflix bubble is far from exploding, but it has to diversify. Video games and more. At this time he is developing strategies such as his still timid, but increasingly clear intention to enter the video game industrywhich show that Netflix has no choice but to see its growth slow down in its original business, but that does not prevent it from becoming a diverse and multi-tentacled monster. It has also already announced that it will slightly increase its budget for creating programs (from 17,000 to 18,000 million dollars), in something that also has a declaration of intent: it is not going to slow down in its race to become one of the main audiovisual producers. . Who can deny that he is achieving it? Thanks to ‘Emilia Pérez’ she will surely become one of the most nominated producers for this year’s Oscars. Header | Netflix In Xataka | Netflix is ​​experiencing its best moment thanks to two strategies that it always promised to combat: advertising and live events

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