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Special aid tool for Israel approved for Taiwan’s use, but not Ukraine

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Time Stamp: January 26, 2024 12:55 PM - Modified On: January 26, 2024 - Published By:
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WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden’s foreign aid request for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific remains stalled on Capitol Hill, inhibiting funding for a unique mechanism that could help U.S. allies and partners build up their own defense industries.Until recently, Israel was the only country with a special privilege called offshore procurement, which has allowed it to use a portion of its Foreign Military Financing, or FMF, grants to invest in its own defense-industrial base instead of purchasing weapons from U.S. defense contractors as other recipients are required to do.Congress approved

New effort seeks to study health issues for private astronauts

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Time Stamp: January 26, 2024 8:15 AM - Modified On: January 26, 2024 - Published By:
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WASHINGTON — Medical researchers and commercial spaceflight advocates are working to begin a new effort to study the health issues and risks that space travel poses to a more diverse population of private astronauts. Virgin Galactic is scheduled to perform the latest flight of its VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane Jan. 26 from Spaceport America in New Mexico. The Galactic 06 mission will carry four customers along with two pilots, a change from earlier flights that flew three customers and one astronaut trainer. The company has not disclosed the identities of

South Korea starts production of MUAV

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Time Stamp: January 26, 2024 5:20 AM - Modified On: January 26, 2024 - Published By:
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26 January 2024 by Akhil Kadidal Production of the MUAV will allow South Korea to significantly enhance its unmanned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations. (Janes/DAPA/South Korea MND/Photo by Amit Kalra) South Korea has started production of its domestically developed Medium-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MUAV). The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said on 25 January that the induction of the MUAV will enhance the Republic of Korea (RoK) military's critical reconnaissance capabilities. The MUAV “will improve the surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities of our armed forces and contribute to the increase in

Despite engine malfunction, powered-down Japanese moon lander achieves major goals

Source Node: https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/01/25/despite-engine-malfunction-powered-down-japanese-moon-lander-achieves-major-goals/
Time Stamp: January 25, 2024 3:30 PM - Modified On: January 25, 2024 - Published By:
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A camera aboard a small micro rover deployed from Japan’s SLIM lunar lander captured an image of the probe resting on one side a few feet away after an engine malfunction during the final stages of descent Jan. 19. Image: JAXA.One of two engines powering a Japanese moon lander during its descent to the surface Jan. 19 suffered a malfunction of some sort just 160 feet above the lunar surface that sharply reduced its power, the Japanese space agency said Thursday. The spacecraft touched down at a safe, lower-than-expected velocity,

Will 2024 Be The Year Of Layered Realities?

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Time Stamp: January 25, 2024 3:04 AM - Modified On: January 25, 2024 - Published By:
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Systems & Design OPINION A decade on from big expectations, AR/VR still holds potential. January is always the month of predictions. Our team has already contributed to Semiconductor Engineering’s 2023 Look Back and 2024 Outlook. My personal tradition has become to combine the outlook with a look back at what industry experts thought of a decade ago. While this involved a trip to my garage to pick up the respective January IEEE Spectrum issue a decade ago, the new reality is that all of this is easy to do online.

How The U.S. Air Force Will Keep Its F-16s Flying Into The 2040s

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Time Stamp: January 24, 2024 5:13 AM - Modified On: January 24, 2024 - Published By:
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A U.S. Air Force F-16CM Block 40 from the 555th FS at Aviano Air Base, among the ones that will receive PoBIT upgrades. (Photo: Stefano D’Urso/The Aviationist) The U.S. F-16 fleet is undergoing the largest modification work in history with the Post Block Integration Team. Now that the F-16 is 50, it is fitting to talk about its future and how it will stay up to date with the capabilities required to face current and future threats. In fact, although the U.S. Air Force is retiring the older aircraft, the

Stralis powers up its first plane-mounted electric motor

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Time Stamp: January 23, 2024 11:07 PM - Modified On: January 23, 2024 - Published By:
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Stralis has tested an electric motor mounted to a Beechcraft Bonanza. (Image: Brisbane Airport) Sustainable aviation firm Stralis has spun up an electric motor on one of its aircraft for the first time, a major step in its ambition to facilitate hydrogen-powered passenger flights by 2026. The test, conducted at Brisbane Airport, saw Stralis power up a motor on a Beechcraft Bonanza A36-HE platform with an eye to performing an actual hydrogen-electric test flight by the end of the year. It aims to retrofit 15-seat Beechcraft 1900D aircraft for electric

REL Southeast Director’s Email—2023 Partnership Highlights

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Time Stamp: January 23, 2024 6:08 PM - Modified On: January 23, 2024 - Published By:
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January 23, 2024 REL Southeast Director’s Email—2023 Partnership Highlights Filed under: virtual school — Michael K. Barbour @ 3:08 pm Tags: cyber school, education, high school, newsletter, Regional Educational Laboratories, REL Southeast, RELs, virtual school Note the item about the Florida Virtual School below. View this email in your browser REL Southeast Director’s Email January 2023 Greetings from the REL Southeast, In the past year, the REL Southeast has continued its pivotal role in advancing education across Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Throughout the year, REL Southeast has actively

Think the Sentinel nuclear program is pricey? Try living without it.

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Time Stamp: January 23, 2024 12:46 PM - Modified On: January 23, 2024 - Published By:
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The U.S. Air Force’s announcement regarding revised cost estimates for the Sentinel ground-based strategic deterrent program must not change the ultimate vector for modernizing the nation’s aging force of 1970s-era Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles.Our nation requires an effective means to deter nuclear threats. This is why the United States has maintained a credible nuclear triad — nuclear-capable bombers, submarines and ICBMs — since the early days of the Cold War. It is time to modernize this enterprise, with the Sentinel program a key component of that effort.Ironically, if strategic