Fed2 Star - the newsletter for the space trading game Federation 2

The weekly newsletter for Fed2
by ibgames

EARTHDATE: October 8, 2017

Fed2 Star Index

In this week’s Fed2 Star: the newsdroids are taking another week off, we’re almost there with the auto-linking code, the Rosetta probe sent one last comet picture that has only just been found, Elon Musk wants to send humans to Mars in just seven years, he also plans to use rockets to travel very fast between cities on Earth, the Hubble space telescope photographs a comet a long way away, an idiot criminal gets caught after painstaking investigation by the DEA, a graphic thesaurus of 28 words and their alternatives, and some stunning astronomy pictures. Plus Winding Down, the tech newsletter from Alan.

Official News

News break next week

New planet code almost done

Real life news: Rosetta’s final image discovered

Real life news: Elon Musk plans trip to Mars in seven years

Real life news: Elon Musk promises fast rocket travel between cities

Real life news: Hubble snaps very distant comet

Dumb criminal of the week: drug baron nabbed when he flew to US for world beard championship

On the web: replace boring words with more interesting ones

Pictures of the week: more astronomy prize-winners

Winding Down