Paris, France (SPX) Jun 06, 2024 Over 200 professionals from ESA, EUSPA, and European industry across four Galileo centres and seven external entities have successfully upgraded Galileo’s extensive ground segment. This operation involved the deployment of 400 items and five months of rehearsals, culminating in the seamless transition to System Build 2.0. With 30 satellites in orbit, Galileo provides metre-level accuracy thttp://dlvr.it/T8CZmV Continue reading Europe’s Largest Ground Segment Upgraded Without User Disruption

Hong Kong (AFP) June 12, 2024 The Hong Kong government said Wednesday it had cancelled the passports of six democracy activists who fled to the United Kingdom, calling them “lawless wanted criminals”. Since authorities quashed massive, at times violent, pro-democracy protests in 2019, Hong Kong has intensified a crackdown on dissent, enacting security laws that critics like Britain and the United States say have curbedhttp://dlvr.it/T89Fhh Continue reading Hong Kong cancels passports of six democracy activists

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2024 Ancient apes in Germany co-existed by partitioning resources in their environment, according to a study published June 7, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Madelaine Bohme of Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, Germany, and David R. Begun of the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues. The Hammerschmiede fossil site in Bavaria, Germany, is best known for remains … Continue reading Tiny species of Great Ape lived in Germany 11M years ago

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2024 At first glance, the simple sea sponge is no creature of mystery. No brain. No gut. No problem dating it back 700 million years. Yet convincing sponge fossils only go back about 540 million years, leaving a 160 million-year gap in the fossil record. In a paper released June 5 in the journal Nature, Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai … Continue reading Virginia Tech Team Uncovers Ancient Sea Sponge Fossil

Beijing (AFP) June 11, 2024 An extreme heat warning was in place in Beijing on Tuesday as temperatures soared across northern China, after a swathe of the northern hemisphere baked under record highs. China is the biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that scientists say are driving climate change and longer, hotter heatwaves. Authorities in Beijing issued an orange alert for extreme heat on Tuesday, … Continue reading North China bakes under searing heatwave

Vienna (AFP) June 10, 2024 A hailstorm badly damaged a passenger plane approaching Vienna on Sunday, the airline said, as Austria grappled with violent thunderstorms and widespread flooding. Hail broke off part of the nose and left cracks in the cockpit windows of the Austrian Airlines aircraft, which was carrying holidaymakers back from Palma de Mallorca. After issuing a distress call, the plane landed safely … Continue reading Hail smashes plane as thunderstorms lash Austria

Helsinki (AFP) June 10, 2024 A software model of Earth, meant to simulate and monitor environmental hazards while findings ways to mitigate climate change, began its monitoring and predictive mission on Monday, the EU Commission said. The Destination Earth initiative resulted in a digital model of the planet to simulate natural phenomena by utilising an “unprecedented amount of data”, according to its website. The mhttp://dlvr.it/T86N9R Continue reading EU puts digital Earth in orbit for climate-change fight

Kinshasa (AFP) June 7, 2024 Three American suspects in what the Congolese army called an attempted coup in Kinshasa last month committed acts “punishable by death”, a court heard on Friday as their trial opened. Marcel Malanga and Taylor Christian Thomson, both 21, and 36-year-old Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun are among 50 defendants in the case and were the first to stand before the judge to … Continue reading Judge tells DRC ‘coup’ trial acts ‘punishable by death’

Mogadishu (AFP) June 8, 2024 Somalia’s government said five of its soldiers died in a battle in which they killed nearly 50 fighters from the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab Saturday, about 350 kilometres (215 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu. Government troops and supporting militia forces got word of an attack planned by Al-Shabaab in Ceeldheer, in the Galgadud region, set an ambush and “destroyed” … Continue reading Somalia says 5 soldiers killed in battle with jihadists

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2024 BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has secured a $7 million contract renewal to provide dynamic space-based imagery and analytics monitoring services to an established international government customer. “With disruptive speed and economics BlackSky is delivering unparalleled value to multiple international ministries of defense with automated real-time high-frequency, low-latency imagerhttp://dlvr.it/T83dzk Continue reading BlackSky Secures $7 Million Contract Renewal for Space-Based Imagery and Analytics Services