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Virgin Galactic completes its first commercial flight into space | Science & Tech News
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Virgin Galactic has completed its first commercial flight into space. Galactic 01 carried a crew of six on its roughly 90-minute flight to the edge of space. A rocket was released from a plane at around 50,000ft, its engine then ignited and sent it in a near-vertical climb to around 50 miles above the Earth.…
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RAF completes first UK flight using 100% sustainable fuel | UK News
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) has successfully piloted the UK’s first flight using 100% sustainable fuel in a “breakthrough moment” for aviation. The RAF Voyager – the military equivalent of an Airbus A330 – has taken to the skies over Oxfordshire using waste-based fuels, including used cooking oil. Sustainable aviation fuels, known as SAFs, have…
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Elon Musk completes $44bn Twitter takeover – and immediately sacks top executives | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has completed his $44bn (£38bn) takeover of Twitter after months of toing and froing over the deal. His first move was to fire the social media company’s top leadership, which he accused of misleading him over the number of spam accounts on the platform. Musk sacked Twitter’s chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial…