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Blue Origin’s heavy-lift New Glenn rocket has been raised on the launchpad for the first time as part of preparations for its maiden flight later this year. The spaceflight company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shared a photo (above) showing the rocket on the pad at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “This milestone represents the first view of the advanced heavy-lift vehicle, which will support a multitude of customer missions and Blue Origin programs, including returning to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program,” the company said in a message this week.…
A 3D-printed building is now standing tall at the entrance of a residential community in Dubai. The fully functional gatehouse has been designed as the control centre for Nakheel’s Tilal Al Furjan residential complex. Being the entry point to the residential development, the gatehouse will serve as a “landmark allowing the public to familiarise itself with 3D-printed buildings”, developer Nakheel said in a statement shared with Khaleej Times. Dubai-based 3D printing technology for construction company Printstone3D said the gatehouse has a canopy that is nearly triple the size of the building itself. A communications hub with CCTV cameras and utility…
With the 32nd edition of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships underway, the Tournament Organising Committee, along with the dedicated security team, has evaluated the security preparations to ensure a seamless and successful event. The 2024 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships men’s tournament is preceded by the 24th edition of the annual WTA event – recently awarded WTA 1000 status – which will continue to take place one week before the ATP event. The women’s tournament will run until 24, before the 32nd staging of the ATP Tour 500 tournament from February 26 to March 2. The Organising Committee, headed…
When massive stars reach the end of their lives and explode in a supernova, they can leave behind huge structures in space called supernova remnants. These are often favorite targets of astronomers because of their beautiful and distinctive shapes. They include the famous SN 1987A remnant that was imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope last year. Now, astronomers using Webb have peered closer at this remnant and found something special inside. The SN 1987A supernova was first observed in 1987 (hence its name) and was bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, making it extremely recent by…
Traffic will be temporarily suspended on some roads in Fujairah for the fifth stage of the UAE Tour cycling race on Friday, Fujairah Police General Headquarters said on Thursday. The authority said that the suspension will take place from 11.30am to 1pm at specific intersections when the competitors pass through. Fujairah Police urged motorists to take alternate routes during the closures. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. See the route map below: The authority said that the road will be closed from Address Hotel (Dibba) heading to the Ras Dibba area from 11.50am…
Could there be a radical way of keeping business within the family? Yes, it seems, and no one exemplifies it more than Emirati sisters, Athari Jassem, 25 and her elder sister Amani Jassem, 27, based in Ras Al Khaimah. Athari attributes her entrepreneurial success to the UAE rulers as she believes that without the strong support of the nation and its policymakers, she would never have tasted success. The UAE is very clear about its agenda to support women entrepreneurs to help them scale new heights of growth as the nation is determined to adopt SDG 5, which is focused…
The February Monthly event of The Senior Champions Tour (TSCT) took place at Al Hamra Golf Club, Ras Al Khaimah. The leading score of the day came from Division B winner Ravi Khanna (15) with 37 points. Ravi shot the equivalent of a gross 86 – highlighted by a front nine of 40, with five pars. The winner of the Gross Division was Christofer Bagge with a four-birdie 75 that also included a double and a triple. Vijay Vasu, co-founder of TSCT said: “TSCT is going from strength to strength as we near the end of our 2023 – 24…
A password can do a mostly fine job of keeping your PSN account secure, but it comes with the annoyance of typing it in relatively frequently, and it suffers from needing to setup sometimes cumbersome 2-factor authentication to further reduce the chances of someone else logging in with your information. Sony has finally introduced a passkey system that not only makes logging in much breezier but offers significantly better security, as a passkey is generated only once and can’t be reused. If you’d like to take the leap into a safer login method for your PSN account, here’s how to…
Israel launched deadly air strikes on Rafah on Thursday, after threatening to send troops in to hunt for Hamas militants in the southern Gaza city where around 1.4 million Palestinians have sought refuge. Another 97 people were killed over the past 24 hours in Gaza, the health ministry said, as a US envoy was in Israel for fresh efforts to secure a truce. International concern has spiralled over the territory’s escalating civilian death toll and the desperate humanitarian crisis sparked by the war. Brett McGurk, White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, held talks with Israeli Defence…
From time to time this column has delved into the foreign origins of English words, but this week I’d like to discuss foreign words that are commonly used in English, but remain in their original languages and have not undergone transmutations of spelling or usage. Yet you need to know them because they are, in fact, commonly used in English, while remaining recognisably foreign. One arena where a number of such phrases is used is the judiciary; judges are inordinately fond of them, often using phrases taken straight from Latin or French for ideas that could be easily expressed in…