Iterate, iterate, and iterate some more Heres what NASA would like to see SpaceX accomplish with Starship this year The seventh test flight of Starship is scheduled for launch Thursday afternoon. Stephen Clark Jan 16, 2025 2:41 pm | 237 SpaceX's upgraded Starship rocket stands on its launch pad at Starbase, Texas. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX's upgraded Starship rocket stands on its launch pad at Starbase, Texas. Credit: SpaceX Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreSpaceX plans to launch the seventh full-scale test flight of its massive Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket Thursday afternoon. It's the first of what might be a dozen or more demonstration flights this year as SpaceX tries new things with the most powerful rocket ever built.There are many things on SpaceX's Starship to-do list in 2025. They include debuting an upgraded, larger Starship, known as Version 2 or Block 2, on the test flight preparing to launch Thursday. The one-hour launch window opens at 5 pm EST (4 pm CST; 22:00 UTC) at SpaceX's launch base in South Texas. You can watch SpaceX's live webcast of the flight here.SpaceX will again attempt to catch the rocket's Super Heavy boostermore than 20 stories tall and wider than a jumbo jetback at the launch pad using mechanical arms, or "chopsticks," mounted to the launch tower. Read more about the Starship Block 2 upgrades in our story from last week.You might think of next week's Starship test flight as an apritif before the entres to come. Ars recently spoke with Lisa Watson-Morgan, the NASA engineer overseeing the agency's contract with SpaceX to develop a modified version of Starship to land astronauts on the Moon. NASA has contracts with SpaceX worth more than $4 billion to develop and fly two Starship human landing missions under the umbrella of the agency's Artemis program to return humans to the Moon.We are publishing the entire interview with Watson-Morgan below, but first, let's assess what SpaceX might accomplish with Starship this year.There are many things to watch for on this test flight, including the deployment of 10 satellite simulators to test the ship's payload accommodations and the performance of a beefed-up heat shield as the vehicle blazes through the atmosphere for reentry and splashdown in the Indian Ocean.If this all works, SpaceX may try to launch a ship into low-Earth orbit on the eighth flight, expected to launch in the next couple of months. All of the Starship test flights to date have intentionally flown on suborbital trajectories, bringing the ship back toward reentry over the sea northwest of Australia after traveling halfway around the world.Then, there's an even bigger version of Starship called Block 3 that could begin flying before the end of the year. This version of the ship is the one that SpaceX will use to start experimenting with in-orbit refueling, according to Watson-Morgan.In order to test refueling, two Starships will dock together in orbit, allowing one vehicle to transfer super-cold methane and liquid oxygen into the other. Nothing like this on this scale has ever been attempted before. Future Starship missions to the Moon and Mars may require 10 or more tanker missions to gas up in low-Earth orbit. All of these missions will use different versions of the same basic Starship design: a human-rated lunar lander, a propellant depot, and a refueling tanker. Artist's illustration of Starship on the surface of the Moon. Credit: SpaceX Questions for 2025Catching Starship back at its launch tower and demonstrating orbital propellant transfer are the two most significant milestones on SpaceX's roadmap for 2025.SpaceX officials have said they aim to fly as many as 25 Starship missions this year, allowing engineers to more rapidly iterate on the vehicle's design. SpaceX is constructing a second launch pad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas, to help speed up the launch cadence.Can SpaceX achieve this flight rate in 2025? Will faster Starship manufacturing and reusability help the company fly more often? Will SpaceX fly its first ship-to-ship propellant transfer demonstration this year? When will Starship begin launching large batches of new-generation Starlink Internet satellites?Licensing delays at the Federal Aviation Administration have been a thorn in SpaceX's side for the last couple of years. Will those go away under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who counts SpaceX founder Elon Musk as a key adviser?And will SpaceX gain a larger role in NASA's Artemis lunar program? The Artemis program's architecture is sure to be reviewed by the Trump administration and the nominee for the agency's next administrator, billionaire businessman and astronaut Jared Isaacman.The very expensive Space Launch System rocket, developed by NASA with Boeing and other traditional aerospace contractors, might be canceled. NASA currently envisions the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft as the transportation system to ferry astronauts between Earth and the vicinity of the Moon, where crews would meet up with a landing vehicle provided by commercial partners SpaceX and Blue Origin.Watson-Morgan didn't have answers to all of these questions. Many of them are well outside of her purview as Human Landing System program manager, so Ars didn't ask. Instead, Ars discussed technical and schedule concerns with her during the half-hour interview. Here is one part of the discussion, lightly edited for clarity.Ars: What do you hope to see from Flight 7 of Starship?Lisa Watson-Morgan: One of the exciting parts of working with SpaceX are these test flights. They have a really fast turnaround, where they put in different lessons learned. I think you saw many of the flight objectives that they discussed from Flight 6, which was a great success. I think they mentioned different thermal testing experiments that they put on the ship in order to understand the different heating, the different loads on certain areas of the system. All that was really good with each one of those, in addition to how they configure the tiles. Then, from that, there'll be additional tests that they will put on Flight 7, so you kind of get this iterative improvement and learning that well get to see in Flight 7. So Flight 7 is the first Version 2 of their ship set. When I say that, I mean the ship, the booster, all the systems associated with it. So, from that, it's really more just understanding how the system, how the flaps, how all of that interacts and works as they're coming back in. Hopefully we'll get to see some catches, that's always exciting.Ars: How did the in-space Raptor engine relight go on Flight 6 (on November 19)?Lisa Watson-Morgan: Beautifully. And that's something that's really important to us because when we're sitting on the Moon... well, actually, the whole path to the Moon as we are getting ready to land on the Moon, we'll perform a series of maneuvers, and the Raptors will have an environment that is very, very cold. To that, it's going to be important that they're able to relight for landing purposes. So that was a great first step towards that. In addition, after we land, clearly the Raptors will be off, and it will get very cold, and they will have to relight in a cold environment (to get off the Moon). So that's why that step was critical for the Human Landing System and NASA's return to the Moon. A recent artist's illustration of two Starships docked together in low-Earth orbit. Credit: SpaceX Ars: Which version of the ship is required for the propellant transfer demonstration, and what new features are on that version to enable this test?Lisa Watson-Morgan: We're looking forward to the Version 3, which is what's coming up later on, sometime in 25, in the near term, because that's what we need for propellant transfer and the cryo fluid work that is also important to us... There are different systems in the V3 set that will help us with cryo fluid management. Obviously, with those, we have to have the couplers and the quick-disconnects in order for the two systems to have the right guidance, navigation, trajectory, all the control systems needed to hold their station-keeping in order to dock with each other, and then perform the fluid transfer. So all the fluid lines and all that's associated with that, those systems, which we have seen in tests and held pieces of when we've been working with them at their site, we'll get to see those actually in action on orbit.Ars: Have there been any ground tests of these systems, whether its fluid couplers or docking systems? Can you talk about some of the ground tests that have gone into this development?Lisa Watson-Morgan: Oh, absolutely. Weve been working with them on ground tests for this past year. We've seen the ground testing and reviewed the data. Our team works with them on what we deem necessary for the various milestones. While the milestone contains proprietary (information), we work closely with them to ensure that it's going to meet the intent, safety-wise as well as technically, of what we're going to need to see. So they've done that.Even more exciting, they have recently shipped some of their docking systems to the Johnson Space Center for testing with the Orion Lockheed Martin docking system, and that's for Artemis III. Clearly, that's how we're going to receive the crew. So those are some exciting tests that we've been doing this past year as well that's not just focused on, say, the booster and the ship. There are a lot of crew systems that are being developed now. We're in work with them on how we're going to effectuate the crew manual control requirements that we have, so it's been a great balance to see what the crew needs, given the size of the ship. That's been a great set of work. We have crew office hours where the crew travels to Hawthorne [SpaceX headquarters in California] and works one-on-one with the different responsible engineers in the different technical disciplines to make sure that they understand not just little words on the paper from a requirement, but actually what this means, and then how systems can be operated.Ars: For the docking system, Orion uses the NASA Docking System, and SpaceX brings its own design to bear on Starship?Lisa Watson-Morgan: This is something that I think the Human Landing System has done exceptionally well. When we wrote our high-level set of requirements, we also wrote it with a bigger picture in mindlooked into the overall standards of how things are typically done, and we just said it has to be compliant with it. So it's a docking standard compliance, and SpaceX clearly meets that. They certainly do have the Dragon heritage, of course, with the International Space Station. So, because of that, we have high confidence that they're all going to work very well. Still, it's important to go ahead and perform the ground testing and get as much of that out of the way as we can. Lisa Watson-Morgan, NASA's HLS program manager, is based at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Credit: ASA/Aubrey Gemignani Ars: How far along is the development and design of the layout of the crew compartment at the top of Starship? Is it far along, or is it still in the conceptual phase? What can you say about that?Lisa Watson-Morgan: Its much further along there. Weve had our environmental control and life support systems, whether it's carbon dioxide monitoring fans to make sure the air is circulating properly. Weve been in a lot of work with SpaceX on the temperature. Its... a large area (for the crew). The seats, making sure that the crew seats and the loads on that are appropriate. For all of that work, as the analysis work has been performed, the NASA team is reviewing it. They had a mock-up, actually, of some of their life support systems even as far back as eight-plus months ago. So there's been a lot of progress on that.Ars: Is SpaceX planning to use a touchscreen design for crew displays and controls, like they do with the Dragon spacecraft?Lisa Watson-Morgan: Were in talks about that, about what would be the best approach for the crew for the dynamic environment of landing.Ars:I can imagine it is a pretty dynamic environment with those Raptor engines firing. Its almost like a launch in reverse.Lisa Watson-Morgan: Right. Those are some of the topics that get discussed in the crew office hours. That's why it's good to have the crew interacting directly, in addition to the different discipline leads, whether it's structural, mechanical, propulsion, to have all those folks talking guidance and having control to say, "OK, well, when the system does this, here's the mode we expect to see. Here's the impact on the crew. And is this condition, or is the option space that we have on the table, appropriate for the next step, with respect to the displays."Ars: One of the big things SpaceX needs to prove out before going to the Moon with Starship is in-orbit propellant transfer. When do you see the ship-to-ship demonstration occurring?Lisa Watson-Morgan: I see it occurring in 25.Ars: Anything more specific about the schedule for that?Lisa Watson-Morgan: That'd be a question for SpaceX because they do have a number of flights that they're performing commercially, for their maturity. We get the benefit of that. It's actually a great partnership. I'll tell you, it's really good working with them on this, but they'd have to answer that question. I do foresee it happening in 25.Ars: What things do you need to see SpaceX accomplish before they're ready for the refueling demo? I'm thinking of things like the second launch tower, potentially. Do they need to demonstrate a ship catch or anything like that before going for orbital refueling?Lisa Watson-Morgan: I would say none of that's required. You just kind of get down to, what are the basics? What are the basics that you need? So you need to be able to launch rapidly off the same pad, even. They've shown they can launch and catch within a matter of minutes. So that is good confidence there. The catching is part of their reuse strategy, which is more of their commercial approach, and not a NASA requirement. NASA reaps the benefit of it by good pricing as a result of their commercial model, but it is not a requirement that we have. So they could theoretically use the same pad to perform the propellant transfer and the long-duration flight, because all it requires is two launches, really, within a specified time period to where the two systems can meet in a planned trajectory or orbit to do the propellant transfer. So they could launch the first one, and then within a week or two or three, depending on what the concept of operations was that we thought we could achieve at that time, and then have the propellant transfer demo occur that way. So you don't necessarily need two pads, but you do need more thermal characterization of the ship. I would say that is one of the areas (we need to see data on), and that is one of the reasons, I think, why they're working so diligently on that.Ars: You mentioned the long-duration flight demonstration. What does that entail?Lisa Watson-Morgan: The simple objectives are to launch two different tankers or Starships. The Starship will eventually be a crewed system. Clearly, the ones that we're talking about for the propellant transfer are not. Its just to have the booster and Starship system launch, and within a few weeks, have another one launch, and have them rendezvous. They need to be able to find each other with their sensors. They need to be able to come close, very, very close, and they need to be able to dock together, connect, do the quick connect, and make sure they are able, then, to flow propellant and LOX (liquid oxygen) to another system. Then, we need to be able to measure the quantity of how much has gone over. And from that, then they need to safely undock and dispose.Ars: So the long-duration flight demonstration is just part of what SpaceX needs to do in order to be ready for the propellant transfer demonstration?Lisa Watson-Morgan: We call it long duration just because it's not a 45-minute or an hour flight. Long duration, obviously, that's a relative statement, but it's a system that can stay up long enough to be able to find another Starship and perform those maneuvers and flow of fuel and LOX.Ars: How much propellant will you transfer with this demonstration, and do you think youll get all the data you need in one demonstration, or will SpaceX need to try this several times?Lisa Watson-Morgan: Thats something you can ask SpaceX (about how much propellant will be transferred). Clearly, I know, but theres some sensitivity there. Youve seen our requirements in our initial solicitation. We have thresholds and goals, meaning we want you to at least do this, but more is better, and that's typically how we work almost everything. Working with commercial industry in these fixed-price contracts has worked exceptionally well, because when you have providers that are also wanting to explore commercially or trying to make a commercial system, they are interested in pushing more than what we would typically ask for, and so often we get that for an incredibly fair price.Stephen ClarkSpace ReporterStephen ClarkSpace Reporter Stephen Clark is a space reporter at Ars Technica, covering private space companies and the worlds space agencies. Stephen writes about the nexus of technology, science, policy, and business on and off the planet. 237 Comments

Stefan Vorontsov is a Ukrainian volunteer who secretly coaches those who want to leave occupied Ukraine.He told BI what it's like to evacuate and prepare for scrutiny from border authorities.He said the journey's most difficult leg is the border checkpoint, where Ukrainians can get interrogated for six hours.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Stefan Vorontsov, a Ukrainian who fled Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka in early 2022. His organization, Humanity, has helped over 6,000 Ukrainians leave southern and eastern Ukraine.Vorontsov is trying to raise awareness of the situation at the border, and limited his interview to information that he says would not compromise evacuees' safety. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Ukrainians who want to leave Russian occupation have only one path: Russia itself.It's too dangerous to cross the front line, so we must go through either Crimea or Rostov-on-Don. Each one has a border checkpoint that gives Ukrainians access to Russia, but they are incredibly difficult to pass through.The Russian border authorities are constantly screening people to catch pro-Ukraine partisans or punish those with family in the Ukrainian forces. One slip-up may mean you go to prison or never leave.When a Ukrainian evacuee makes contact with us, we give them a "legend." It's the fake story we must create about why they want to enter Russia, about their families and national identity, and about their past.For example, sick people can say they want to visit a Russian hospital, and families can say they want to go to the Black Sea and chill at the beach. Ukrainians in occupied Kherson typically try to leave through Crimea, while those in the Mariupol and southern Donbas areas go through Rostov-on-Don. Vorontsov said Ukrainians in Donetsk and Luhansk typically do not need as much help as travel restrictions are more lax there. Screenshot/Google Maps It's a lot harder for young Ukrainian men, especially those who are flagged by Russia for making pro-Ukraine posts online. For these people, we have to make sure their legend is strong.In most cases, I use Telegram's "secret chat" function to message an evacuee carefully. I have to be delicate with what I tell them because I know that Russia may be able to read every word I write.The Russians search everything about youThere are many reasons Ukrainians did not flee before the Russian army arrived. Many are sick. Many have children. Even though the war is on your doorstep, on your streets, it's so difficult to make the decision to permanently leave your home. Vorontsov's organization, Humanity, said that it's helped over 2,000 Ukrainian children leave occupied territories. Stefan Vorontsov Over the years, I've learned that 95% of an evacuation's success depends on preparation before the person steps out the door.The most important thing Ukrainians must do is clean up their phones.The Russians check everything at the border checkpoint, and they're always looking for people with pro-Ukrainian views.Evacuees must prepare that they could be interviewed for six hours at the border checkpoint, where the guards will meticulously vet everything about them: their phones, their social media posts, and their search history.Anything related to Ukraine can implicate you. Ukrainian words, text messages from family members, photos of the Ukrainian flag, and even the colors of blue and yellow might land you in trouble. The guards can see if you liked or subscribed to a pro-Ukraine social media channel.Maps are especially important to delete. The Russians do not like maps, and they think you will use them for sending coordinates.Photos of buildings or city locations can also be a trap because they might be labeled as evidence of Russian positions.The Russians will look through your phone contacts and call history, and try to find numbers from their database of pro-Ukraine people or Ukrainian soldiers. Even if it is an unknown number to you, you can still be caught if it's related to someone the Russians don't like.We also consider the type of phone our evacuees use. If they use an Android phone, it's very easy for the Russians to recover a lot of their deleted data, like messages and photos from the last two or three years.To help their case, we sometimes tell evacuees to add a bit of Russian flavor to their digital history by following certain Telegram channels or subscribing to pro-Russia YouTubers.Surviving the checkpointOur organization gives free evacuation to those who want to escape, and we try to plan every step for them. We arrange for licensed bus drivers to take them to Crimea or Rostov-on-Don, and if they can't make it themselves to the gathering point, we pay for taxis, food, or hostel stays. Fleeing Ukrainians pose after arriving at Odesa's railway station. Stefan Vorontsov But we have to compete with Russian drivers, who come from the east and offer desperate Ukrainians travel into Russia for $400 a trip. We pay our drivers less than $50 per person.At the border, the interviewers will try to provoke the evacuees. They will ask questions to make Ukrainians angry and catch them slipping if they support Ukraine.This is where an evacuee's legend is so important.If, for example, their brother is in the Ukrainian military, they should never tell the Russians that. They should try to talk about how they hate war and pretend to be as neutral as possible. Sometimes, it's useful to say that they are tired of the Ukrainian government.The consequences of failing the checkpoint clearance can be great. You can be stuck in occupied Ukraine. Or you can go to prison. Or they can send you to a deep part of Russia without telling anyone.Dozens of my friends, colleagues, and evacuees have disappeared while making this journey, and I don't know where they are.Old people, children, and the sick often have an easier time, but it's becoming a lot harder to leave occupied Ukraine. When I left Ukraine in early 2022, it was 40 days after the Russians took Nova Kakhovka. Many of the evacuees aided by Vorontsov are old, have disabilities, or are sick. Stefan Vorontsov Back then, the Russians thought they would take our country quickly. They found photos and information on my phone that revealed I was pro-Ukraine, but somehow I managed to lie my way through to Georgia. Now, they try to break all Ukrainians, even old grannies and mothers.Since January 2024, Russia has also required all Ukrainians to get a Russian passport for permission to cross the border. That's made our work a lot more difficult, and it introduced new complications. Boys and men, even those as young as 15, get pressured to join the Russian army when they apply for a passport.If a Ukrainian can overcome all of these obstacles and pass the border checkpoint, they can travel to Moscow. From there, they can take a train to Belarus or Europe and eventually return to unoccupied Ukraine.The entire process takes about four days. As for myself, I had to pass a second checkpoint and go through another four-hour interview on my way to Georgia, where I stayed for six months. Now, I'm in Western Europe helping to coordinate evacuations.We don't get paid for what we do. In 2024, my organization helped to evacuate 360 Ukrainians, including 106 children, for a total of $23,500. We also evacuated a horse and dozens of dogs and cats.We fundraise for train tickets, bus rides, and other evacuee expenses. We have a mission to save the Ukrainian people, to save the Ukrainian nation. This mission is our driving force, our fuel.

Sportarena Olympiapark Munich SAP Garden / 3XNSave this picture! Rasmus HjortshojStadiumsMnchen, GermanyArchitects: 3XNAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:62500 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs: More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. 3XN completes SAP Garden, a new arena in Munich's Olympic ParkSAP Garden celebrates its opening 27 September, 2024. The project echoes the same democratic ideals as its historic surroundings, uniting sports and local community in a state-of-the-art sports arena.Save this picture!27 September, Munich.Built on the site of the former Olympic Velodrome and with Frei Otto and Gnther Behnisch's iconic Olympic Stadium as its neighbour, the new SAP Garden arena is informed by the legacy of its location and surroundings. The 62,500m arena project is designed by 3XN in collaboration with CL MAP and landscape architects Latz + Partner for client Red Bull.Save this picture!"We are pleased to be opening the new SAP Garden arena, marking a new era for sport in the city of Munich," says Jan Ammundsen, Senior Partner at 3XN. "The project has been a meaningful opportunity for us to extend the architectural legacy of the Olympic Park. It was important for our design to fit the modern sports facility into the existing, historic Olympic Park in a seamless way. We hope that it will become a focal point that gathers locals to experience and take part in sports."Save this picture!The sports arena is the new home of ice hockey team EHC Red Bull Munich and basketball team Bayern Munich while three additional ice rinks serve as training and public facilities. The bowl can gather up to 10,700 spectators for ice hockey and 11,500 for basketball. Beyond the sports facilities, the arena offers three levels of VIP areas, merchandise shops, a large restaurant, a gaming room, offices and conference rooms, a parking garage and a public rooftop terrace.Save this picture!Melting into its historic contextAdding a new structure into Behnisch & Partner's protected Olympic Park landscape posed a complex design challenge: how to respect the integrity of the park while also accommodating the significant spatial needs of the world class sport facility? To solve this, the design team concealed the arena's three additional ice rinks underneath an artificial hill that organically continues the park's existing pathways and landscape design. The arena itself is oval-shaped and asymmetrical in both its height and shape, forming an organic appearance which together with a green roof lets the building melt into the park and the cityscape.Save this picture!"The Olympic Park is both in its architecture and landscape designed around the human scale," says Ammundsen. "The sports facilities are nestled in the green terrain which rolls and undulates around the now iconic structures. SAP Garden is designed with careful consideration for these existing characteristics to both preserve and also add a new element to the uniquely harmonious relationship between the buildings and the park."Save this picture!The arena's faade is dynamic and welcoming with vertical pilaster strips that swing upwards and accentuate the glass-panelled entrances. Each of the 260 pilaster strips are unique in their geometry with the largest being over 18 metres tall and weighing one ton. This gives the building a dynamic faade expression at the same time simple and complex.Save this picture!Place for the publicSAP Garden is designed as a catalyst for activity - both on game days and 'off days'. As a sports arena, it is a destination for the many with the ability to house ice hockey, basketball and a multitude of third-party events. On days with no official activities, it remains a place full of life. Beyond serving as training facilities for the professional players, the arena's three additional ice rinks are built from the vision of improving the local sports infrastructure. All year round the rinks are open for schools, clubs and the public to use, becoming a place that gathers and strengthens local grassroots sports.Save this picture!Above ground, sports fans can browse the merchandise shops while the e-sport community gains a home with the ambitious Gaming Garden - the new gaming hotspot for southern Germany. A restaurant with both indoor and outdoor service lets life unfold between the internal and external spaces while the top of the arena is a new destination for Munich with a rooftop terrace that invites everyone to enjoy the views over the park and cityscape.Save this picture!"We focused very much on what will happen on the ice or on the parquet floor. What happens here is the reason why you come to the building, and we wanted to create an atmosphere of intensity," explains Ammundsen. "Of course, it is also essential that the architecture is clear and intuitive enough that people are able to find their way quickly and move around without difficulty. But when you are sitting in your seat watching the game, the building should fade into the background. Then it is all about the atmosphere."Save this picture!A unique, full scope arena designSAP Garden is at the forefront of arena designs, shaped to create an intense atmosphere and fan experience while being adaptive to its shifting purposes. Switching between an ice rink and a basketball court is a complicated matter as the two are different sizes. To accommodate this and ensure courtside seating for both sports, a unique stand-system has been developed. The existing stands can be shifted in height and slope while mobile stands are added for basketball games, placed on top of the covered rink, to create more seating.Save this picture!3XN's scope also includes the interior design where the use of digital media and light creates a flexible colour palette that can change the ambience of the arena in line with the branding or occasion. As such, the interior is centred around variety of atmospheres and identities. Areas and rooms are individual in their design which lets the users have unique experiences throughout the building. At the same time, all spaces have small design elements in common that tie the building together as a whole, creating an interior that is both cohesive and playful.Save this picture!"There is a reason why we go to arenas, why it is so important to be able to go in person: we want to experience a feeling. I believe that this feeling only arises when we experience something together," explains Ammundsen. "As architects, we want to help make this feeling in the hall as intense and exciting as possible. There are good tools for doing that: sound technology, lighting technology. The main thing is that the experience is something that is special, something that you cannot have anywhere else."Save this picture!SAP Garden is 3XN's third completed sports arena, following Royal Arena and Horsens Stadium in Denmark. The grand opening of the arena takes place on September 27 with an ice hockey game between the four-time German champions EHC Red Bull Munich and the Buffalo Sabres from the National Hockey League (NHL).Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:Toni-Merkens-Weg 4, Munich, GermanyLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeMaterialsMaterials and TagsPublished on January 17, 2025Cite: "Sportarena Olympiapark Munich SAP Garden / 3XN" 17 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1025757/sportarena-olympiapark-munich-sap-garden-3xn&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08396-8Modelling of the evolution of atmospheric methane emissions from the 2022 Nord Stream subsea pipeline leaks shows that the event emitted the largest recorded amount of methane from a single transient event.

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PlayStation legend @yosp Shuhei Yoshida was surprised about the sales of Horizon Forbidden West compared to its predecessor, Horizon Zero Dawn. He thought the sequel could do better with the millions of fans brought by the original game: https://80.lv/articles/shuhei-yoshida-was-surprised-about-sales-gap-between-horizon-zero-dawn-the-sequel/#Horizon

Metroid Prime 2026 Wall Calendar $16 | Releases July 15 Preorder at Amazon The Legend of Zelda Hardcover Planner $20 | Releases June 3 Preorder at Amazon Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is planned to launch on Nintendo Switch sometime this year, but Nintendo is already prepping for next year with a new Metroid 2026 Wall Calendar. The $16 calendar is a piece of official Nintendo merch and will launch on July 15 alongside several other themes based on popular franchises. The cover art for next year's Metroid calendar matches the edition from 2021, which appears to be the most recent Metroid edition. Metroid Prime 2026 Wall Calendar $16 | Releases July 15 The official Metroid 2026 Wall Calendar--and the other full-size Nintendo wall calendars--measure 12 inches by 24 inches when unfolded and is printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink. It covers January to December 2026 in a standard daily grid format like you find on most other wall calendars, and each day offers space for writing notes, appointments, and reminders. There are also labels for official major world holidays and observances, as well as moon phases based on Universal Time. The top half of each month features art and renders from Nintendo franchises, but it's unclear if the Metroid calendar will come with any Prime 4 art.While the main part of the Nintendo calendars is for 2026, you won't have to wait until next year to use it, as it includes a planning spread section for September to December 2025 that you can use to organize the last few months of this year.Outside of the Metroid calendar, Amazon is taking preorders for 2026 wall calendars based on Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, and more. There's a modern Super Mario edition featuring 3D character art as well as an 8-bit edition from the plumber's days spent hopping through stages on the NES. The Super Mario Bros. 8-Bit Retro 2026 Wall Calendar includes six die-cut notecards that can be folded to create 3D models of enemies from the original NES game: Blooper, Lakitu, Cheep Cheep, Hammer Bros., Spiny, and Buzzy Beetle.Multiple Pokemon calendars are up for preorder, including mini and full-size wall calendars as well as the Pokemon Day-to-Day 2026 Calendar. This $18 desktop calendar features art from the Pokemon Horizons anime.With the exception of the Pikmin edition, which releases August 19, all of the 2026 Nintendo calendars release July 15.Preorder Nintendo 2026 Wall CalendarsMetroid Prime 2026 Wall Calendar -- $16Mario Retro 2026 Wall Calendar + 6 papercraft characters -- $17Super Mario 2026 Wall Calendar -- $16The Legend of Zelda 2026 Wall Calendar -- $16The Legend of Zelda 2025-26 16-Month Planner -- $20Donkey Kong 2026 Wall Calendar -- $16Pokemon 2026 Day-to-Day Calendar -- $18Pokemon Moves 2026 Wall Calendar -- $16Pokemon 2026 Wall Calendar -- $16Pokemon 2026 Mini Wall Calendar -- $11Pikmin 2026 Wall Calendar -- $16Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2026 Wall Calendar -- $16 Preorder at Amazon The Legend of Zelda Hardcover Planner $20 | Releases June 3 The Legend of Zelda fans can pair the 2026 Zelda Wall Calendar with an official weekly planner. The 176-page hardcover book has a grain-embossed textured cover to give it a premium look and feel. The cover has a gold foil-stamped Hylian Crest and franchise logo.The weekly/monthly planner covers September 2025 through December 2026. You can preorder The Legend of Zelda 16-Month Planner for $20 at Amazon ahead of its June 3 release.The Legend of Zelda 2025-26 16-Month Planner -- $20 | June 3The Legend of Zelda 2026 Wall Calendar -- $16 | July 15 Preorder at Amazon Continue Reading at GameSpot

Fallout Shelter is a mobile and desktop, colony building game that takes place within the same universe as other games in the Fallout series. Later released for Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch players, it is completely free to download and play Fallout Shelter, but the game does feature microtransactions, and there is a cash shop that the player may want to spend at least a little money on.