The fuel for a fully reusable rocket that can unlock truly low-cost access to space isn’t methane or liquid oxygen. It’s cash, and Stoke Space Technologies is tanking up. The company has now “completed the initial closing” of a $1 billion Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger
The Hundred men’s competition: Final, Lord’s Trent Rockets 158-8 (100 balls): Donald 38 (19); Noor 3-33 Manchester Super Giants 162-5 (98 balls): Seifert 72 (38); Amir 3-29 Manchester Super Giants won by five wickets Scorecard Manchester Super Giants survived a late wobble with the bat to beat Trent Rockets by five wickets and win the
Having finished top of the table at the end of the group stage, there was uncertainty about how that would impact Rockets going straight into the final. Sunrisers had played one more game just two days ago, but would have taken confidence from winning it, while Rockets had not played since Monday. In the end,
Stubbs and Marcus Stoinis were instrumental in pulling off the chase as they shared a 70-run stand for the fourth wicket. Aussie all-rounder Stoinis whacked four fours and three sixes to make 46 off 25 balls before he miscued a full toss from Ben Sanderson in the penultimate set and was caught. However, with eight
The Hundred women’s competition, Trent Bridge Southern Brave 117-5 (100 balls): Bouchier 38 (33); Adams 2-14 Trent Rockets 118-7 (98 balls): Gardner 37 (24); Corteen-Coleman 2-16 Trent Rockets won by three wickets Scorecard. Table Nat Sciver-Brunt’s breezy 32 helped Trent Rockets to a three-wicket win over Southern Brave which rubber stamped their place in the
The first images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage impact on the moon’s surface have emerged. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared the first photographs captured by its lunar orbiter. South Korea is one of the few nations that currently has satellites traveling around the moon at an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers)
