Sean DemersParticipated in 2015Study Abroad | Australia
Originally from Milton, Sean is a junior marketing major at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Prior to studying abroad, he had only been out of the United States twice, but he knew traveling was something he wanted to do. Over school breaks for the past two years, Sean has worked as an office coordinator at a construction management firm in Boston.
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WASHINGTON — Virgin Orbit provided additional details about the likely cause of its LauncherOne failure last month but didn’t estimate when the vehicle will be ready to return to flight.
In a Feb. 14 statement, the company elaborated on comments made a week earlier by its chief executive, Dan Hart, who said at the SmallSat Symposium Feb. 7 that a filter in the rocket’s second stage propulsion system dislodged “and caused mischief downstream” that led to a premature shutdown of the engine before the rocket reached orbit. Read More...
Russia experienced its third hottest year on record in 2023, the head of Russia's Hydrometeorological Center said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Global temperatures last year smashed records going back to 1850, with the planet measuring 1.35-1.54 Celcius warmer on average compared to pre-industrial levels.
While 2023 was just the third hottest ever reliably recorded for Russia overall, in the European part of the country — which includes regions west of the Ural Mountains — last year was the hottest on record, according to chief scientist Roman Vilfand. Read More...