领航考研考研英语—每日一篇!_SpaceX_The_debris(领航考研百度百科)

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美东时间8月5日周五,马斯克旗下太空探索技术公司(下称spacex)在递交给美国证券交易委员会(sec)的一份文件中称,公司在7月的一轮股权融资中筹集了2.5亿美元。虽然spacex没有披露其估值的变化。不过
领航考研考研英语—每日一篇!_SpaceX_The_debris(领航考研百度百科)插图
,根据过往的融资记录,spacex的估值在过去几年中连续飙升。据cnbc,在今年5月份的上一轮17.25亿美元的融资后,spacex的估值已经达到1270亿美元。去年10月,spacex与新老投资者达成协议,以每股560美元的价格出售公司内部人士发行的最多7.55亿美元股票,此举当时使得spacex估值升至1003亿美元。

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spacex capsule confirmed as source of debris that crashed on australian farm

spacex太空舱被确认为在澳大利亚农场坠毁的碎片来源

the australian space agency has confirmed the space debris found in the snowy mountains in southern new south wales belongs to a craft built by elon musk’s spacex company. technical experts from the agency visited the remote location on saturday where sheep farmers mick miners and jock wallace each discovered a piece of space debris on their respective farms. the agency had been alerted by brad tucker, an astrophysicist from the australian national university, who first realised the timing and location of the debris falling coincided with a spacex spacecraft which re-entered the earth’s atmosphere at 7am on 9 july, 20 months after its launch in november 2020.

澳大利亚航天局已经确认,在新南威尔士州南部雪山发现的太空碎片属于埃隆·马斯克的spacex公司制造的飞船。该机构的技术专家周六访问了这个偏远地区,养羊人米克·米纳斯和乔克·华莱士分别在他们各自的农场里发现了一块太空碎片。该机构得到了澳大利亚国立大学天体物理学家布拉德·塔克的提醒,他首先意识到碎片坠落的时间和地点与spacex公司的航天器相吻合,该航天器在2020年11月发射后20个月,于7月9日上午7点重新进入地球大气层。

tucker believes the debris came from the unpressurised trunk of the spacex capsule, which is critical to take off but dumped when returning to earth. a spokesperson from the australian space agency (asa) said, “the agency has confirmed the debris is from a spacex mission and continues to engage with our counterparts in the us, as well as other parts of the commonwealth and local authorities as appropriate”. “if the community spots any further suspected debris, they should not attempt to handle it or retrieve it,” the spokesperson said.

塔克认为,这些碎片来自spacex太空舱未加压的后备箱,这对起飞至关重要,但在返回地球时却被抛弃。澳大利亚航天局(asa)的一位发言人说,“该机构已确认碎片来自spacex的任务,并继续与我们在美国的同行,以及联邦其他地区和地方当局进行适当的接触。”发言人说:“如果社区发现任何进一步的疑似碎片,他们不应试图处理它或检索它。”

tucker said that since the finding of the first two pieces of debris had been announced, a third piece had been found farther west, closer to jindabyne. he expects there will be more people coming forward with debris “over the coming weeks to months to even years” now that people know the disintegration occurred in the area.

塔克说,自从宣布发现前两块碎片后,在更远的西部发现了第三块碎片,更接近金达比恩。他预计,“在未来几周到几个月甚至几年内 ”会有更多的人前来寻找残片,因为人们知道解体发生在这个地区。

今日单词

capsule /?k?ps(?)l/ n.太空舱;
confirm /k?n?f??rm/ vt.确认;
debris /d??bri?/ n.残骸;
crash /kr??/ vi.坠毁;
craft /kr?ft/ n.飞行器;飞船;
respective /r??spekt?v/ adj.分别的,各自的;
alert /??l??rt/ vt.提醒;
astrophysicist /??stro??f?z?s?st/ n.天体物理学家;
timing /?ta?m??/ n.时机;
coincide with 巧合;吻合;
unpressurised /?n?pre??ra?zd/ adj.未加压的;
trunk /tr??k/ n.后备箱;
be critical to 对……至关重要;
take off 起飞;
mission /?m??(?)n/ n.任务;
engage with 与……建立关系;
commonwealth /?kɑ?m?nwelθ/ n.联邦;
appropriate /??pro?pri?t/ adj.适当的;
spot /spɑ?t/ vt.看到;
suspected /s??spekt?d/ adj.可疑的;
attempt to 试图;
come forward with 主动提出;自告奋勇上交;
now that 因为;
disintegration /d?s??nt??ɡre??(?)n/ n.解体;

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文本选自:the guardian(卫报)

作者:natasha may

原文发布时间:3 aug. 2022

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