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Ukrainian advisors to teach German army how to win a modern war by 2029 The announcement, as reported by Reuters, marks a striking role reversal from years of Western forces training Ukrainian troops.

The announcement, as reported by Reuters, marks a striking role reversal from years of Western forces training Ukrainian troops.

Firefly Alpha returns to flight Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket successfully returned to flight March 11, launching a technology demonstration mission more than 10 months after the rocket’s previous launch failed.

Firefly Alpha returns to flight

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket successfully returned to flight March 11, launching a technology demonstration mission more than 10 months after the rocket’s previous launch failed.

A minor update on Tianwen-2: Liu Jizhong said that Tianwen-2, launched in late May 2025, has already travelled about 700 million kilometres and will arrive at the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 (Kamo'oalewa) "this year" (rumours suggest early July).

Development of Tianwen-3 Mars sample return is progressing well, according to chief designer Liu Jizhong, with breakthroughs in Mars sampling and containment, takeoff & ascent, orbit rendezvous, and planetary protection. This is "laying the groundwork for future continuous exploration" of Mars.

The West’s military malaise The West’s response to new methods of warfare in Ukraine and the Middle East has been sluggish, revealing an adaptation process that is slow, risk-averse and underfunded.

“If western military organisations were too slow to develop counters to obvious operational problems in the past 4 years, what else might they have missed?” There is a systemic learning deficiency in western military organisations we need to fix. engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

NASA Lunar Program Won’t Be Fixed by Artemis Makeover The changes threaten to add more uncertainty to a plan that’s years behind schedule.

Wrote about the Artemis revamp in our newsletter today. While changes were definitely needed for NASA's moonshot, the modifications likely won't solve all of the initiative's problems -- and they stand to introduce new challenges too www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Bizarrement je pense pas qu'arrets sur images sera trop critique de la couverture médiatique du sujet...

Missile strike hits SES teleport in Israel Satellite operator SES said a missile “targeted and struck” its teleport facility in Israel March 9 as tensions spill across the region amid ongoing Israeli and U.S. military operations against Iran.

Missile strike hits SES teleport in Israel

Satellite operator SES said a missile “targeted and struck” its teleport facility in Israel March 9 as tensions spill across the region amid ongoing Israeli and U.S. military operations against Iran.

D'ailleurs est ce que l'opfor est commandée par un 2S comme la dernière fois?

HEO (@heospace) has imaged @AST_SpaceMobile 's Bluebird 6 satellite in orbit. It looks significantly different from the illustrations on AST Space Mobile's website.

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Anduril to acquire space-tracking firm ExoAnalytic Solutions Deal adds ground-based telescope network and space surveillance data to defense tech company’s expanding space business

Anduril to acquire space-tracking firm ExoAnalytic Solutions

Deal adds ground-based telescope network and space surveillance data to defense tech company’s expanding space business

Très rassurant de voir ce genre d'initiative pour mettre en oeuvre le RETEX de l'Ukraine, et d'avoir une OPFOR qui n'est pas juste là pour faire de la figuration

A large part of the reason why the US Navy has been able to get away with underinvesting in MCM is... NATO.

The sharing of capabilities meant that the US could leave MCM to European allies, who became rather good at it.

This didn't take into account the US fighting a dumbass war, w/o NATO.

Thales now marketing its UHF early ballistic warning radar under the name Ground Alerter 5000, using tech derived from its Aurore SSA radar

Voilà à quoi ressemble la plus grande antenne en orbite basse. Déployée depuis février sur le satellite BlueBird-6 d'AST Spacemobile (et pour servir de "relai 5G dans l'espace" directement sur nos smartphones), elle mesure normalement 223m².

(notez qu'il y a des doutes sur sa taille finale exacte)

Express AT1 GEO satellite

Ignore the previous comment about control being regained - It resulted from an error in the Space-Track data…

Cyprus First to Use EU GOVSATCOM Secure Communications Service Cyprus has become the first country to make use of the EU’s GOVSATCOM secure satellite communications service.

Cyprus has become the first country to make use of the EU’s GOVSATCOM secure satellite communications service.
europeanspaceflight.com/cyprus-first...

Large Series C signals scale-up of China’s laser satellite communications sector Shanghai-based laser communications startup BlueStar Optical Domain has raised funding in the region of $70 million, highlighting growing demand from China’s emerging satellite internet constellations.

Large Series C signals scale-up of China’s laser satellite communications sector

Shanghai-based laser communications startup BlueStar Optical Domain has raised funding in the region of $70 million, highlighting growing demand from China’s emerging satellite internet constellations.

Telesat expands Canadian landing station footprint for Lightspeed Telesat has gained access to more land across Canada to set up landing stations ahead of plans to deploy pathfinders for its Lightspeed broadband constellation in December.

Telesat expands Canadian landing station footprint for Lightspeed

Telesat has gained access to more land across Canada to set up landing stations ahead of plans to deploy pathfinders for its Lightspeed broadband constellation in December.

NASA disqualifies X-ray telescope from Probe mission competition NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on upheaval within the agency last year.

NASA disqualifies X-ray telescope from Probe mission competition

NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on upheaval within the agency last year.

These are Ukraine’s $1,000 interceptor drones the Pentagon wants to buy Ukraine spent years perfecting cheap drone killers. After burning through billions of missiles in three days, the U.S. and its allies are asking for help.

Ukraine spent years perfecting cheap drone killers. After burning through billions of missiles in three days, the U.S. and its allies are asking for help.

Suspended NOAA satellite chief warns of threats to federal science programs The head of NOAA’s satellite division, on administrative leave for more than half a year, warned that workforce reductions and cuts to science programs have “lobotomized” the federal government.

Suspended NOAA satellite chief warns of threats to federal science programs

The head of NOAA’s satellite division, on administrative leave for more than half a year, warned that workforce reductions and cuts to science programs have “lobotomized” the federal government.

EchoStar 25 EchoStar 25 (EchoStar XXV) is a direct broadcasting communications satellite manufactured by Maxar Technologies (United States) for EchoStar Corpor...

A SpaceX Falcon-9 booster has launched the large EchoStar 25 direct broadcasting satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The 6800 kg satellite was built by Lanteris (formerly Maxar).

space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ech...

Witkoff stated that since Russia claims it isn’t aiding Iran’s intelligence, “we must take them at their word.”

2014 - Satellite & Spacecraft Launches and Detailed Orbits 2014 - Listing of all orbital launch attempts (including failures) complete with detailed orbital information

Express AT1 GEO satellite

Mar 7, controllers reported it had ceased operating and comms had been lost, it started to drift eastwards

Latest data from Space-Track indicate that comms may have been restored and it may be back under control

orbitalfocus.uk/2014#010

Class 3 Companion Post: The Artemis Restructuring: What It Reveals, What It Solves, and What It Does Not Stress testing the Framework introduced in Class 3 in the Space Policy learning series

This is a really good analysis of the recent restructuing of the Artemis Program and how big of a change it was from the preexisting plan put in place by Congress 16 years ago bhavyalal.substack.com/p/class-3-co...

If they are smart they have USV to deploy the mines

À la veille de l'anniversaire de la catastrophe de Fukushima le sondage Ipsos-BVA commandé par Orano annonce :
▫️ 69 % des jeunes pensent que le nucléaire émet du CO2
▫️ 52 % des français pensent que le nucléaire contribue à la production de gaz à effet de serre
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Utile rappel que dans le contexte, les boites qui font du "dual use" communiquent massivement sur leur côté défense aussi.

Comme ici le missile ballistique de courte portée (ou artillerie longue portée, c'est selon) de 150 km FLP-T d'Arianegroup et Thalès.

☢️ Emmanuel Macron a défendu en ouverture d'un sommet à Paris le nucléaire civil, facteur d'"indépendance" dans un contexte géopolitique où les hydrocarbures peuvent devenir un instrument "de déstabilisation", et appelé les acteurs privés et publics à investir dans le secteur.

➡️ u.afp.com/SutA