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Story Applications Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 media briefing 23/07/2025 1328 views 38 likes Read
ESA
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Applications 23/07/2025 1328 views 38 likes With launch slated for August, the first MetOp Second Generation satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, which also carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, is currently undergoing final preparations for liftoff...
Stockholm, we have a problem: Norway blasts Sweden in space race
The Times
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The hot phase of the European space race started with the wrong kind of bang. A German rocket, touted as the Continent’s first attempt at an orbital launch from its own soil, took off from Andoya in the Arctic north of Norway but lost power after...
Expert backs proposed rocket launch site in Sabah: Space centre could prevent brain drain
Daily Express Malaysia
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July 19, 2025
Expert backs proposed rocket launch site in Sabah: Space centre could prevent brain drain Published on: Saturday, July 19, 2025 Published on: Sat, Jul 19, 2025 By: Audrey J Ansibin Text Size: Dark Mode: Off Pic (left): Logesh Kumar Selvakumar....
Investing in Space: The market’s taking off
CNBC
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July 18, 2025
Digital generated image of a futuristic financial dashboard with holographic displays of various stock market graphs and data visualizations. The scene includes detailed graphs with line and bar charts, real-time data feeds, and transparent...
Rocket Report: Japan’s workhorse booster takes a bow; you can invest in SpaceX now
Ars Technica
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July 4, 2025
Seeking to scale ... "Thanks to this location, we will be able to industrialize Zephyr production up to 50 units per year while maintaining control over our growth pace," said Isabelle Valentin, chief operating officer of the company. Latitude...
With China, European Space Agency leaves politics to governments
Asia Times
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July 22, 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) has a comprehensive internal system in place to ensure that its collaboration with China will not raise security concerns or be affected by geopolitical changes, according to a senior director interviewed by Asia...
NASA’s TRACERS leads busy spaceflight schedule
Astronomy Magazine
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July 21, 2025
Back to Article List From July 21 to July 27, NASA’s TRACERS mission will launch to study Earth’s magnetic cusp, alongside multiple Starlink flights, climate science payloads, and a rescheduled Gilmour Space test flight. The official mission patch...
The Real Adventures of Henri Charrière, Author of “Papillon”
France Today
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June 22, 2025
The great escape Tattooed while in the French navy, Charrière rebelled against naval discipline and evaded further service by amputating his own thumb. In Paris, he descended into a life of petty crime, becoming a notorious safecracker and thief....
Europe looks to Nordic space race to scale back US dependence
Cyprus Mail
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July 20, 2025
Two small spaceports in the far north of Sweden and Norway are racing to launch the first satellites from mainland Europe into space as the region looks to reduce its reliance on US players. US President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies and...
France enters the space race with Baguette One
Euro Weekly News
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July 19, 2025
France is making a meteoric push to get its place in the global space race with the development of Baguette One, a suborbital launcher spearheaded by Bordeaux-based start-up HyPrSpace. Backed by €35 million in public cash, the reusable rocket is...
Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 2)
Black Agenda Report
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As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in Saïd Bouamama's blog. Resistance by the colonized The...
Story Science & Exploration Smile passes gruelling set of tests 15/07/2025 1641 views 34 likes Read
ESA
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Science & Exploration 15/07/2025 1641 views 34 likes All its parts have been built and put together. It has been wrapped in shiny gold insulating foil. Its launch is getting closer. But the Smile spacecraft had one major phase to pass before it...
Aruba: Black Gold and Boas
JSTOR Daily
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July 18, 2025
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. There’s a chasm as large as any sweep of Caribbean sand between how we’d like to imagine a place became a dream holiday destination and the hard realities of what triggers such an...
Video 00:01:38 Science & Exploration Plato’s eyes meet brain 30/06/2025 59 views 2 likes Play
ESA
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On 11 June, engineers at OHB’s facilities in Germany joined together the two main parts of ESA’s Plato mission. They used a special crane to lift Plato’s payload module, housing its 26 ultra-sensitive cameras, into the air and carefully line it up...
France to build supermax prison to isolate drug lords and Is...
Modern Ghana
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France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and radicalised Islamists near a former penal colony in its overseas department of French Guiana, sparking outcry among residents and local officials. The wing will form...
France revives Devil's Island legacy with supermax Islamist jail
The New Arab
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May 21, 2025
French Guiana residents decry plans for a supermax prison to house drug traffickers and Islamists [Getty] France's plan to build a high-security prison in its South American territory of French Guiana, specifically to house drug traffickers and...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
The meteorological and climate satellite MetOp-SG travels towards the Kourou launch pad
AvioNews
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June 6, 2025
Ready for launch: the first of the MetOp-SG meteorological and climate satellites built by Airbus left the clean rooms in Toulouse a few days ago and is now en route to the spaceport of Kourou, French Guiana, aboard the transport ship "Canopée"....
France sparks outcry with plan for prison wing near former penal colony
The Guardian
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May 19, 2025
French plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana have sparked an outcry among local people and officials. The wing would form part of a $450m (£337m) prison...
“We’re Sailing Into the Future”: Wind-Powered Cargo Ship Reaches 99.6% Efficiency and Slashes 20 Tons of CO₂ Every Day
Sustainability Times
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July 8, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 Canopée is revolutionizing maritime transport with its hybrid design, reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions. ⛵ Equipped with four OceanWings sails, the vessel achieves daily fuel savings of approximately 5.2 tons,...