By Richard Norton-Taylor, Published by Declassified UK, 10 February 2023 The new ‘authorised history’ of GCHQ, Britain’s largest intelligence agency, ignores or simply dismisses its most controversial activities as supposed scandals, giving a thoroughly one-sided account of the spy agency. First, it was the Security Service, MI5; then the Secret
By Jason Rainbow, Published by SpaceNews, 10 February 2023 TAMPA, Fla. — Inmarsat says it is still considering deploying a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of its own despite comments to the contrary by one of its executives this week. Speaking Feb. 8 at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View,
By Dan Sabbagh, Published by The Guardian, 9 February 2023 A senior Ukrainian presidential aide has reacted with anger after Elon Musk’s SpaceX said it had taken steps to prevent its Starlink satellite communications service from controlling drones, which are critical to Kyiv’s forces in fighting off the Russian invasion.
Published by Sputnik News, 9 February 2023 MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's armed forces from using the Starlink satellite constellation for controlling and targeting drones as the technology was "never intended to be weaponized," Gwynne Shotwell, the president and chief operating
By Chris Young, Published by Interesting Engineering, 9 February 2023 The new technology will help ESA quickly remove satellites from orbit to tackle the growing space debris problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully deployed a braking sail designed to deorbit a small satellite, according to a release. The sail
By James FitzGerald, Published by BBC News, 9 February 2023 SpaceX has limited Ukraine's ability to use its satellite internet service for military purposes - after reports that Kyiv has used it to control drones. Early in the war, Ukraine was given thousands of SpaceX Starlink dishes - which connect
Published by buzzsprout, 8 February 2023 I Fought the LawEpisode 2 Are you as terrified as everyone else about the possibility of nuclear war and total destruction of the planet? Or don’t you even think about it? Either way, welcome to another episode of I Fought The Law , the law being
By Oliver Milman, Published by The Guardian, 8 February 2023 Astrophysicists propose geoengineering solution to climate warming, although skeptics still urge ‘massive’ fossil fuel cutbacks Proponents of a “moonshot” idea to deal with global heating have been handed a new, very literal, interpretation by researchers who have proposed firing plumes
