4 things to know about China’s longest-ever crewed spaceflight mission The mission is set to last six months It’s China’s longest crewed mission yet The crew is heading for Tiangong,China’s first long-term space station,which is being constructedinlow Earth orbit. China aims to complete the station by December 2022. The six-monthmission will be the longest time that Chinese astronauts have ever stayed in space, but the crew should have plenty to keep them occupied....

4 things to know about China’s longest-ever crewed spaceflight mission The mission is set to last six months It’s China’s longest crewed mission yet The crew is heading for Tiangong,China’s first long-term space station,which is being constructedinlow Earth orbit. China aims to complete the station by December 2022. The six-monthmission will be the longest time that Chinese astronauts have ever stayed in space, but the crew should have plenty to keep them occupied....

4 things we learned from Apple’s bombastic earnings call iPhone sales grew by 50% 1. This was Apple’s most profitable spring quarter What’s an Apple quarterly result with the words “the most profitable quarter ever” in some context? Apple earned $81.6 billion in revenue (up 36% year-on-year), and recorded $21.7 billion profit.These numbers make it the mostsuccessful April-June quarter in the company’s history. 2. The iPhone 12 is a hit (and other hardware is also doing well) Apple stopped reporting iPhone sales numbersmore than two years ago....

4 things we learned from Apple’s bombastic earnings call iPhone sales grew by 50% 1. This was Apple’s most profitable spring quarter What’s an Apple quarterly result with the words “the most profitable quarter ever” in some context? Apple earned $81.6 billion in revenue (up 36% year-on-year), and recorded $21.7 billion profit.These numbers make it the mostsuccessful April-June quarter in the company’s history. 2. The iPhone 12 is a hit (and other hardware is also doing well) Apple stopped reporting iPhone sales numbersmore than two years ago....

4 threats posed by Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites Astronomers want their sky back Causing collision threats SpaceX recently fired the 2,000th Starlink satellite into orbit. The vast number of these devices has raised concerns of collisions with other objects inspace. The issue caused uproar in China after theTiangongspace stationreportedly had two near missesinvolving the satellites. “For safety reasons, the China Space Station implemented preventive collision avoidance control,” Beijing said in a document submitted to the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs....