Super Strypi Rocket Fails on Launch

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A US Air Forces satellite launch mission has failed after the Super Strypi rocket launcher broke up shortly after lift-off on November 3. The ORS-4 Super Strypi mission was the first test of the new Super Strypi launcher, which was meant to carry 13 satellites into orbit. The launch from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, had originally been slated for October 23 but was delayed because of technical issues. This video, shot by a spectator near the facility, shows the Super Strypi rocket veering off course. Credit: YouTube/Mason Weitzel via Storyful

Pro-Hong Kong Flash Mob Organized Outside NBA Pre-Season Game in New York

A flash mob demonstration took place outside New York City’s Madison Square Garden ahead of a NBA pre-season game on Friday, October 11, to show solidarity with Hong Kong protesters and to show support for Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey. Morey tweeted his support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protestors, prompting significant criticism from China’s basketball association, Chinese officials, media and basketball fans. Morey later deleted the tweet and said “I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event…My tweets are my own and in no way represent the Rockets or the NBA”. Alvin Lum, a journalist with the South China Morning Post, posted these videos to Twitter on Friday, writing: “The protest outside of MSG ended with chants in Cantonese:‘Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our times! #nba’” Credit: South China Morning Post / @alvinllum via Storyful

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