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#PPOD: A collision between two galaxies has resulted in a merged star system with an unusual appearance and bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) features a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, giving rise to its nicknames, the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy. Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI); Acknowledgment: S. Smartt (Institute of Astronomy) and D. Richstone (U. Michigan)

Gilmour Space have now released some video of Eris TestFlight1 to the media and it's getting posted in various places, e.g. youtube.com/watch?v=5rtKV9t_Cqs

The video shows the flight from two different cameras. In the second clip you can clearly see that there is a failure of one of the four first stage engines almost immediately after lift off, leaving the rocket with a thrust to weight ratio very close to one. Eris ends up basically hovering near the launch pad, but then a second engine fails and it drops to the ground.

The guidance system did a good job keeping the rocket upright during all this.

Tuesday 30 July 1963

Was Stephen Ward just a rake, a lady-killer, a filthy fellow? Or was he a pimp and a ponce, a man guilty of the loathsome crime of living off immoral earnings? These are the questions put to the jury as the Stephen Ward trial reaches its close.