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Should the US Go It Alone in Space?
The US Space Force (USSF) recently published its US Space Force International Partnership Strategy. The USSF international strategy aims to operationalize “strength through partnerships” by aligning allied and partner nations with US space efforts across all strategic levels. However, there are at least two major areas of concern for an effective future USSF international strategy: […]
Should the US Go It Alone in Space? was originally published on Global Security Review.
Strange Radio Pulses Detected Coming From Ice In Antarctica
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.Org: A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scient…
Qualcomm-Funded Study Finds Qualcomm’s Modems Outperform Apple’s C1 Chip in Real-World Tests
A Qualcomm-commissioned study found that Apple’s inaugural C1 modem, debuting in the iPhone 16e, significantly underperformed compared to Qualcomm-powered Android devices in challenging network conditions. The research by Cellular Insights tested devic…
The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
alternative_right writes: The site looks like an ordinary Star Wars fan website from around 2010. But starwarsweb.net was actually a tool built by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to covertly communicate with its informants in other countries.
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Phone Companies Failed To Warn Senators About Surveillance, Wyden Says
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) revealed in a new letter to Senate colleagues Wednesday that AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile failed to create systems for notifying senators about government surveillance on Senate-issued devices — despite a requirement to do so…
NASA Resurrects Voyager 1 Interstellar Spacecraft’s Thrusters After 20 Years
NASA engineers have successfully revived Voyager 1’s backup thrusters, unused since 2004 and once considered defunct. Space.com reports: This remarkable feat became necessary because the spacecraft’s primary thrusters, which control its orientation, ha…
FCC Threatens EchoStar Licenses For Spectrum That’s ‘Ripe For Sharing’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has threatened to revoke EchoStar licenses for radio frequency bands coveted by rival firms including SpaceX, which alleges that EchoStar is …
Newark Airport Radar Outage Strikes Again, Delaying More Flights
Just days after a radar and communications outage at Newark Liberty International Airport, the FAA confirmed a second incident on May 9 that disrupted radar and radio contact for 90 seconds due to a telecom failure at Philadelphia TRACON. “As of 12:30P…
SpaceX Gets Approval To Sell Starlink In India
schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: Almost immediately after India’s government issued this week new tightened regulations for allowing private satellite constellations to sell their services in India, it also apparently completed negotiatio…