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NASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the #ArtemisII rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after overnight Feb. 21 observing interrupted flow of helium to the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/21/nasa-troubleshooting-artemis-ii-rocket-upper-stage-issue-preparing-to-roll-back/ - the upper stage uses helium to maintain the proper environmental conditions for the stage’s engine and to pressurize liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant tanks; the systems worked during NASA’s Artemis II wet dress rehearsals, but teams were not able to properly flow helium during normal operations and reconfigurations following the wet dress rehearsal that concluded Feb. 19.

"South Korea sets 3.5 million heat pump target in national decarbonization push"
#SouthKorea #Energy #HeatPumps

South Korea sets 3.5 million heat pump target in national decarbonization push
The South Korean government says it will deploy incentives, legal changes and industry backing to scale heat pump adoption nationwide, aiming to cut emissions from fossil fuel–dependent heating by the mid-2030s.

Scottish engineer and inventor,
James Watt
was born on this day
19 January 1736
"I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street – had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking about the engine at the time and had gone as far as the Herd’s house when the idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cyl…

Thony Christie (@rmathematicus.bsky.social)
The 18th-century, Scottish, engineer and inventor, James Watt was born 19 January 1736 #histsci #histtech https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/a-twelve-year-flash-of-genius/

from my link log —
Engineering and operations at the Internet Archive.
https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
saved 2026-01-20

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon
A deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack.

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/115740868465115589
No one ever planned anything bad with phone calls or email or IRC or text messages or internet forums or facebook or twitter or

I just had some PIZZA for the first time in yonks - and I'd forgotten how insanely delish it is! Yum!🍕

E hoje encontrei o Niniro lš embaixo. Ele sempre faz uma festa quando me vê. Até me fez derrubar ração no chão.
#CatsOfMastodon

The only genuine image of the 2026 annular #SolarEclipse I've seen so far - and at an extremely short wavelength of only 17 nanometers, from the Proba 2 satellite: https://proba2.sidc.be/Eclipse17February2026 (which sees the solar corona in emission, so the Sun doesn't have a sharply defined edge).

Im April spreche ich auf der Rack&Stack Konferenz über Decomputing. Weitere Teile des Programms sind nun öffentlich.
(Original title: Golem-Konferenz Rack & Stack 2026: Diese Speaker stehen fest, jetzt verbilligte Tickets sichern)
https://www.…

Golem-Konferenz Rack & Stack 2026: Diese Speaker stehen fest, jetzt verbilligte Tickets sichern - Golem.de
Das Programm für die Rack & Stack steht in großen Teilen, wir haben Zusagen von einigen tollen Speakern! Bis Ende Januar können noch Vorschläge eingereicht und vergünstigte Tickets gekauft werden.

Marcus Elliot Quintet feat. Dwight Adams at Blue Llama
#jazz