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Yahoo
9 hours ago
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NASA moon orbiter spies grave of crashed Japanese lunar lander (image)
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace. Resilience tried to touch down on June 5 in the center of Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold), a volcanic region interspersed with large-scale faults known as wrinkle ridges. Mare Frigoris formed over 3.5 billion years ago as massive basalt eruptions flooded low-lying terrain, according to Mark Robinson, a lunar scientist for the company Intuitive Machines who is based in Phoenix, Arizona. Later, the wrinkle ridges formed as the crust buckled under the weight of the heavy basalt deposits. Shortly after Resilience's landing sequence, the ispace Mission Control Center was unable to establish communications with the spacecraft. The team determined that Resilience had likely been lost, a conclusion that was firmed up a few hours later. Also lost on landing was the Tenacious microrover, a small wheeled vehicle developed in Luxembourg by ispace's European subsidiary. Tenacious carried a piece of artwork on its front bumper — Mikael Genberg's "Moonhouse," a small replica of the red-and-white homes famous in Sweden. Related stories: — Private Japanese spacecraft crashes into moon in 'hard landing,' ispace says — Japan's Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo) — Japan's Resilience moon lander arrives in lunar orbit ahead of June 5 touchdown Resilience left some telltale marks when it slammed into the moon on June 5, and LRO noticed them. "The dark smudge formed as the vehicle excavated and redistributed shallow regolith (soil); the faint bright halo resulted from low-angle regolith particles scouring the delicate surface," Robinson, the principal investigator for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, told Inside Outer Space. The crash spot is roughly 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) from the landing site that ispace mapped out, to one decimal place, on its webpage. One decimal place in lunar latitude and longitude equals 19 miles (30 km), Robinson said. Resilience was ispace's second moon lander. The company's first such probe also crashed during its touchdown try, in April 2023. Scott Manley has more details on the Resilience crash; check out his video here.
BBC News
6 days ago
- BBC News
Huddersfield canal towpath upgrade to improve accessibility
Work to improve accessibility along a six-mile (9.5km) stretch of canal has begun, with more than £3m being spent on repair work along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and Huddersfield Broad Canal is being undertaken by the Canal and River Trust (CRT) in partnership with Kirklees Council and West Yorkshire Combined enterprise manager Mark Robinson said the work would focus on opening up the towpaths to more said: "In a number of places we've got some quite tight barriers. We're going to be taking those out and where we've got steps we're going to be trying to remove those to make it flat." "It will be an all-weather surface, so it's going to be constructed of tarmac laid on a stone surface, much like you would get on the road," he said."To all intents and purposes, it looks like a natural surface but it's very robust. We're not going to have to do anything to it for next 25 years hopefully. And it's suitable for walkers, wheelchair, push chair users and cycles." The work also includes widening the towpaths, where possible, while retaining heritage features, grass verges, and native plants and trees to support wildlife habitats; repairs to the canal walls; and new mooring bollards for resurfacing is the final stage of a five-year, three-phase project, which has seen the walkway made passable from Huddersfield to Standedge Tunnel - the UK's longest, deepest and highest canal work, which also includes construction of a ramp at Scarwood Bridge, is expected to continue until October along the Huddersfield Broad Canal the path is being improved from Aspley Basin to Cooper Bridge, where the canal joins the Calder and Hebble project starts in mid-June and is expected to finish in January the works, both the towpaths will remain open, but with restrictions - meaning people will be escorted through the sites for the scheme has come from West Yorkshire's Active Travel Fund, which is grant funding provided by Active Travel England. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
NZ Herald
11-06-2025
- Business
- NZ Herald
NZ Herald Live: Police update missing Christchurch woman Elisabeth Nicholls.
Herald NOW: NZ Rugby and the hunt for a new CEO after Mark Robinson's resignation Future of NZ Rugby: Sports commentators weigh in on the direction of NZR. Video / Herald NOW
NZ Herald
10-06-2025
- Business
- NZ Herald
Former student kills nine in deadly shooting at school in Graz, Austria
Herald NOW: NZ Rugby and the hunt for a new CEO after Mark Robinson's resignation Future of NZ Rugby: Sports commentators weigh in on the direction of NZR. Video / Herald NOW
RNZ News
10-06-2025
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- RNZ News
Explainer: What will happen in the last six months of Mark Robinson's tenure as NZ Rugby boss
As per usual with sports retirements, we're left with a long time between the announcement and the actual end of a career. With players and coaches it more or less comes down to trophies and milestones in terms of things to be achieved before they hang up the boots or whistle. For outgoing NZ Rugby (NZR) CEO Mark Robinson though, the to-do list may well be a bit more far reaching. To say Robinson's time in charge of the game's governing body has been tumultuous is a real understatement. He was only weeks into the job when Covid hit, fundamentally transforming the way rugby operated. Then there was the Silver Lake deal , the governance saga and an All Black coaching situation that played out with all the drama of a test match. But we're not really going to be able to reflect on any of that accurately till Robinson is finished, and probably really not till a long time in the future with regards to Silver Lake. What's important now is what his plans are for the rest of 2025 and what may well happen now that the shackles are figuratively off. New Zealand Rugby CEO Mark Robinson and chair Dame Patsy Reddy Photo: PHOTOSPORT "There's always something going on," said Robinson at NZR's Auckland office, highlighting the two key priorities: a new financial model and a more aligned global calendar. "We've got a whole range of different agreements coming together, like the broadcast agreement, the provincial union funding models, our competition models. All allow us the opportunity to come together and figure out what a better model might be for the game." Given what happened last year, with the governance stoush that ended with NZR chair Dame Patsy Reddy stepping down, that may seem a long way away. However, the reticence of Robinson to hit the nuke button in regards to an internal relationship suggests that progress may still be made by the end of the year - at least from NZR's point of view. "I think the provincial unions (PUs), the Player's Association (RPA), ourselves, and Super Clubs are all aligned about finding a better model. And we haven't got the answer predetermined … (but) we've done a lot of work on strategy, a lot of work on the long term revenue plan for the game." It's understandable that Robinson is guarded around just what it will look like, given the potential ramifications for the PUs. The governance stoush pulled the curtain back on a fraught situation between NZR and its constituents, many of whom are fearful of losing funding and influence. Julian Savea of Wellington celebrates a try during the NPC Final - Wellington v Bay of Plenty at Sky Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand on Saturday 26 October 2024. Copyright photo: Masanori Udagawa / Photo: Masanori Udagawa "We deal with over 30 stakeholders. So you never going to get complete alignment on every issue all the time," was Robinson's diplomatic response in regard to the relationship. "But we do need to build a degree of consensus to be able to move the whole system forward. Therein lies part of the challenge of a stakeholder organisation. We need to just keep working at educating, and sharing information and building confidence, trust and transparency about what's possible in the game." So it's fair to say that the full time whistle hasn't been blown on that issue yet, despite the PUs voting to keep the governance system intact last year. The other big issue on Robinson's mind is the upcoming test schedule for the All Blacks and the commercial opportunities to leverage. "Things like the Nations Cup, South Africa, the All Black Series, Lions tours in '27 (women) and '29 (men), the World Club Cup are all things that we're very, very close on. But we just need, I think, over the next six months, a final push to finalise those." All Blacks huddle after the test win against Ireland in Dublin. Photo: ©INPHO/Billy Stickland Despite it being common knowledge that the All Blacks will tour South Africa next year, to the point where a schedule has already been leaked, it hasn't been officially announced yet due to commercial details needing to be ironed out. Another, far more ambitious idea is the Club World Cup - again something that people have been talking about for a while but one that will be far more logistically challenging both from a financial and practical perspective. Robinson is hopeful of having it signed off by the time he leaves. "2028 is a date that's been slated for at the moment. I think there's good progress being made, there's certainly a really strong appetite from clubs in New Zealand to be involved in it. At various times in the Northern Hemisphere there seems to have been different appetite shown, but it seems at the moment [there] is a good push." It'll be interesting to see whether the financial model and significant calendar changes will come to pass, which is why this deserves a sequel sometime in December. By then the All Blacks would have completed another long season that will culminate in a Grand Slam tour, while the Black Ferns will have attempted to defend a World Cup. "I think everyone acknowledges we're on the cusp of unlocking what could be a really incredible model for the game here," said Robinson, before admitting that it's virtually impossible to please everyone. "There is definitely enough revenue in the game to be able to go around. It doesn't mean everyone will be happy with all the budgets and resource they have, but we can definitely make it work."
