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Corporate raider Carl Icahn recovers $1 billion in his fortune as loan deal with big banks alleviates short-seller assault – Fortune
- Corporate raider Carl Icahn recovers $1 billion in his fortune as loan deal with big banks alleviates short-seller assault Fortune
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‘Hacks’ Pauses Season 3 Production as Jean Smart Recovers From Heart Procedure – Variety
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James Webb Space Telescope recovers from 2nd instrument glitch
NASA’s powerful $10 billion space telescope is firing on all cylinders again.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) returned to full science operations on Monday (Jan. 30), recovering from a glitch that affected one of its instruments.
The Webb team conducted days of testing and evaluation after a “communications delay” on Jan. 15 caused issues with the telescope’s Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, according to a Tuesday (Jan. 31) statement (opens in new tab) from NASA.
“Observations that were impacted by the pause in NIRISS operations will be rescheduled,” said the agency in its brief statement, noting the instrument was recovered successfully on Friday (Jan. 27).
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NIRISS was provided by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), so personnel from NASA and the CSA worked alongside one another for troubleshooting. The initial issue was a “communications delay within the instrument, causing its flight software to time out,” according to a Jan. 24 statement (opens in new tab) from NASA.
NIRISS can normally work in four different modes (opens in new tab), according to NASA. The instrument may be tasked with working as a camera when other JWST instruments are busy. Alternatively, NIRISS can look at light signatures of small exoplanet atmospheres, do high-contrast imaging or examine distant galaxies.
Prior to the NIRISS glitch, an issue arose on another Webb instrument in August 2022: a grating wheel inside the observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). The wheel is required for just one of MIRI’s four observing modes, however, so the instrument continued observing during recovery operations. Work on recovering the affected mode, called the Medium Resolution Spectrometer, was completed in November.
In December, the JWST team also spent two weeks dealing with a glitch that kept putting the telescope into safe mode, making science observations difficult. A software glitch in the observatory’s attitude control system was pinpointed as the issue, affecting the direction in which the telescope points. The observatory bounced back relatively quickly from that problem, resuming full science operations on Dec. 20.
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Launch footage shows how SpaceX recovers its rockets
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket put on a dazzling display of pyrotechnics Sunday evening as the heavy lifter ferried two government payloads to space. Roughly eight minutes later, spectators were treated to a double landing of the rocket’s two side boosters back at Cape Canaveral.
Sonic booms crackled overhead as the landings marked the 163rd and 164th successful booster recoveries for SpaceX. The rocket’s center core was discarded in the ocean due to fuel requirements necessary to deliver the payload to orbit.
One spectator in particular captured incredibly detailed footage of Falcon Heavy’s carefully choreographed orbital ballet that helps each rocket nail its landings.
SpaceX rockets are made up of four key components: the first stage, the second (or upper) stage, an interstage that connects the two together, as well as a payload fairing, which houses whatever cargo or satellites the rocket is carrying.
Two of those components, the first stage and the payload fairings, are designed to be reusable and together account for nearly 70 percent of the rocket’s cost, according to SpaceX.
After a SpaceX rocket launches, it goes through a series of steps that are designed to ensure the payload gets to its intended orbit. But after the first and second stages separate, the second stage continues on with the payload, while the first stage prepares to return to Earth where it will land either on land or on a floating platform in the ocean.
Once the first stage separates, the booster begins a sort of orbital ballet where it will flip around in mid air, and fires three of its engines as part of a boostback burn, which will orient itself for landing. This flip maneuver can be seen in detail in the launch footage from Astronomy Live.
The boostback burn is the first of three landing burns needed to slow the rocket down so that it can avoid a crash landing. Next, the booster will deploy a set of titanium grid fins which are used to help steer the rocket. Then the craft will light its engines again briefly for an entry burn, when it reenters the Earth’s atmosphere.
The booster is then guided to its landing spot with the help of the grid fins before its engines light one final time, as it ideally gently comes in for a landing.
SpaceX has been recovering rockets this way since 2015, when it recovered its first booster at Cape Canaveral.
FTX recovers $5 billion in cash and crypto to repay customers
Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX says it has recovered more than $5 billion worth of cash and crypto assets it may be able to sell to help repay customers and investors, an attorney for the company told a Delaware bankruptcy court on Wednesday.
Company advisers have identified a significant amount of crypto that it will be more difficult to sell without depressing the market price of those digital tokens, FTX attorney Andrew Dietderich said. The company is also trying to sell off other “nonstrategic investments” made by FTX that have a book value of $4.6 billion, he said.
It is not yet clear how much of a shortfall FTX’s creditors will face as company advisers continue working to salvage what they can from the crypto giant’s shocking implosion in November. But the company, once one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has identified more than 9 million customer accounts, Dietderich said, suggesting there will be an incredibly long line of people looking to be made whole.
Federal regulators have estimated that FTX customer losses exceed $8 billion. John J. Ray III, the corporate wind-down expert now leading the company, told lawmakers last month the company will not be able to recover all of its losses and expects the process to take “months, not weeks.”
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to eight criminal charges of fraud and money laundering in federal court in Manhattan last week. Federal prosecutors and regulators have accused him of orchestrating a years-long scheme to defraud the company’s customers by diverting their deposits to his affiliated investment firm, Alameda Research, and then using the funds as a personal piggy-bank.
“We know what Alameda did with the money,” Dietderich told the bankruptcy court on Wednesday. “It bought planes, houses, threw parties, made political donations. It made personal loans to its founders. It sponsored the FTX Arena in Miami, a Formula 1 team, the League of Legends, Coachella and many other businesses, events and personalities.”
Bankman-Fried and his inner circle also made risky cryptocurrency bets, “often unsuccessfully,” Dietderich said, and invested in a range of businesses. “We know all this has left a shortfall in the value to repay customers and creditors,” he said. “The amount of the shortfall is not yet clear. It will depend on the size of the claims pool and our recovery efforts.”
Don’t Forget These 5: Biadasz Recovers the Fumble
ARLINGTON, Texas – With 74 points scored, including both teams grabbing the lead back and forth, this will be a game remembered for big moments such as highlight-reel touchdowns and diving interceptions.
But games have those plays that can get overlooked but still change the course of the game. Here are five that made a difference.
Dak avoids sack on third down – Already down 10-0 after an interception return for a score, the Cowboys desperately needed a big play to stay in the game and prevent it from getting out of hand. On third-and-5 from the Cowboys’ 48-yard line, Dak Prescott appeared to be sacked in the pocket, but he was able to fight off defenders and gather himself enough to find Michael Gallup over the middle for an 8-yard gain. The drive moved into Philadelphia territory, where the Cowboys kept it rolling and scored on a 1-yard run by Ezekiel Elliott.
Eagles hold Hilton, drive extended – Before T.Y. Hilton made a huge game-changing play in the fourth quarter, he was held by an Eagles defender on a fourth-and-8 at the Philadelphia 45-yard line early in the second quarter. The pass fell incomplete, but the flag extended the drive and the Cowboys were able to score a few plays later for a 14-10 lead.
Fourth-down run opens up big comeback – The nail-biting finish might not have occurred if Dallas doesn’t make key plays earlier in the second half. Down by 10 points, the Cowboys faced fourth-and-1 at their own 34-yard line. The offense called a run around the right side to Elliott, who had his longest rush of the game, going 22 yards to the Eagles’ 44. That led to a field goal that got the Cowboys back to within a score.
Cowboys get the fumble back, pass to Hilton – Yes, the pass to Hilton changed the entire game. The Cowboys were able to convert a third-and-29 with a bomb to the recently signed receiver, who made his first catch of the season. But it doesn’t happen if center Tyler Biadasz doesn’t recover a fumble by Prescott at the Cowboys’ 38-yard line and Dallas down seven. A turnover there would’ve been devastating, but the Cowboys kept the ball and ended up with a third-and-forever. Prescott, though, still had enough confidence to bomb the pass to Hilton, whose catch not only flipped the field but led to a game-tying score.
Wright tackles Pascal in bounds – On the final drive of the game, with the Eagles needing a touchdown to win, they had plenty of time and one timeout. But on first down, the pass in the flat to Zach Pascal had the wide receiver headed out of bounds before Nahshon Wright hit him first. By NFL rules, that keeps him “in bounds” and the clock running. Instead of the next snap occurring around 1:35, the Eagles didn’t get the ball snapped until 1:19. While the Eagles still moved down to the Cowboys’ 19-yard line, those seconds were huge in forcing Philadelphia to be more aggressive at the end of the game.
Rouble recovers from near eight-month low vs dollar
MOSCOW, Dec 22 (Reuters) – The rouble recovered on Thursday after hitting its weakest mark since late April as the prospect of a favourable month-end tax period mitigated concerns over the impact of sanctions on Russian oil and gas.
By 1343 GMT, the rouble was up 0.4% against the dollar at 70.68 after earlier hitting 72.6325, its weakest since April 28, which had taken monthly losses to more than 15%.
It also pared losses to gain 0.5% to trade at 75.18 versus the euro , having earlier slid past the 77 mark for the first time since late April, and recovered to gain 0.4% against the yuan to 10.04 , up from a near seven-month low.
Should the rouble consolidate above the psychologically important levels of 70 per dollar, 75 to the euro and 10 per yuan, it could open up new downside horizons for the Russian currency, Veles Capital analysts said.
Falling export revenues in recent months have been exacerbated by a European Union oil embargo that began in December, when an oil price cap also took effect.
Brent crude oil , a global benchmark for Russia’s main export, was up 0.6% at $82.7 a barrel.
Analysts expect the rouble to find a foothold next week when month-end taxes, which usually see Russian exporters convert FX revenues to pay local liabilities, are due.
Russia has been borrowing heavily in the final quarter of the year, on Wednesday selling 337.8 billion roubles ($4.81 billion) of OFZ treasury bonds.
Russian banks have bought the vast majority of government debt, with sanctions preventing access for foreign investors, who had traditionally been attracted by Russia’s high yields.
Dominant lender Sberbank (SBER.MM) plans to build its liquidity buffer using bonds with floating-rate coupons, Anatoly Popov, deputy chairman of Sberbank’s executive board, told the RIA news agency. The bank holds more than 3 trillion roubles in OFZ bonds.
Russian stock indexes were higher.
The dollar-denominated RTS index (.IRTS) was up 0.8% at 947.6 points, recovering from its lowest mark since Oct. 10. The rouble-based MOEX Russian index (.IMOEX) was 0.5% higher at 2,125.9 points.
($1 = 70.2750 roubles)
Reporting by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Tom Hogue, Toby Chopra and Barbara Lewis
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Fog-shrouded Kyiv recovers after Russia strikes, power restored to 6 million
KYIV, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Basic services were being restored in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Saturday after the latest wave of Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure, as residents navigated a city gripped by fog and girded for a holiday season marked by uncertainty.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a quarter of Kyiv remained without heating but that the metro system was back in service and all residents had been reconnected to water supply by early morning.
Only around one-third of the city remained without electricity, he said, but emergency outages would still be implemented to save power. “Because the deficit of electricity is significant,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Ukrainian officials said Russia fired more than 70 missiles on Friday in one of its heaviest barrages since the Kremlin’s Feb. 24 invasion, forcing emergency blackouts nationwide.
Ukraine has managed to restore power to almost 6 million people in the last 24 hours, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address.
“Repair work continues without a break after yesterday’s terrorist attack. … Of course, there is still a lot of work to do to stabilize the system,” he said.
“There are problems with the heat supplies. There are big problems with water supplies,” Zelenskiy added, saying Kyiv as well as Vinnytsia and Lviv further to the west were experiencing the most difficulty.
Earlier this month, Kyiv Mayor Klitschko had warned of an “apocalypse” scenario for the capital if Russian air strikes on infrastructure continued, though he also said there was no need yet for people to evacuate.
“We are fighting and doing everything we can to make sure that this does not happen,” he told Reuters on Dec. 7.
In a gloomy winter haze on Saturday, officials reopened a popular pedestrian bridge that had been damaged during an earlier air strike and were setting up a smaller-than-usual Christmas tree in a central square.
The vast space in front of the centuries-old St. Sophia Cathedral is traditionally anchored by a hulking evergreen at Christmas. But officials this year opted for a 12-metre (40-foot) artificial tree festooned with energy-saving lights powered by a generator.
Orthodox Christians make up the majority of Ukraine’s 43 million people.
Klitschko said the tree was funded by donors and businesses, and that no public celebrations would take place.
“I doubt this will be a true holiday,” said Kyiv resident Iryna Soloychuk, who arrived with her daughter to see the tree just hours after another round of air-raid alerts wailed across the country.
“But we should understand that we’re all together, that we should help one another.”
Additional reporting by Yurii Khomenko and David Ljunggren
Editing by Frances Kerry
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