Archive for the 'War' Category
SpaceX Aims to Launch 70 Missions a Year from Florida’s Space Coast by 2023
March 4th, 2020Via: Space.com: SpaceX is planning a huge boost to the number of rocket launches from its Florida launch sites in the next few years as the company builds its Starlink satellite megaconstellation while meeting flight demands from its customers, according to a federal environmental report. The missions for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets […]
United Launch Alliance Factory Tour
March 2nd, 2020Via: Smarter Every Day:
U.S. NAVY PACIFIC FLEET ORDERS AT LEAST 14 DAY UNDERWAYS FOR SHIPS VISITING NATIONS IN 7TH FLEET AOR
February 28th, 2020Via: Navy Times: U.S. Pacific Fleet commander Adm. John C. “Lung” Aquilino has directed all vessels visiting nations in the 7th Fleet area of operations “to remain at sea for at least 14 days before pulling into another port in order to monitor sailors for any symptoms” of COVID-19, a new and deadly strain of […]
33 Turkish Soldiers Killed by Airstrike in Northwestern Syria
February 28th, 2020Via: CBS: Turkey on Friday raised the death toll from a Syrian government airstrike on its forces in northwestern Syria the previous night to 33 Turkish troops, the highest number of Turkish soldiers killed in a single day since Ankara first intervened in the Syrian conflict in 2016. The deaths, which came in an attack […]
Starlink: The Air Force And SpaceX Are Teaming Up For A ‘Massive’ Live Fire Exercise
February 27th, 2020Remember the one about better broadband Internet options for rural customers? haha Via: The Drive: As space continues to play an increasingly important role for the United States armed forces, the Department of Defense has been also increasingly engaging with the private aerospace and communications sector to develop and implement solutions that better help it […]
U.S. Health Officials Urge Americans to Prepare for Spread of Coronavirus
February 25th, 2020Via: Reuters: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday alerted Americans to begin preparing for the spread of coronavirus in the United States after infections surfaced in several more countries. The announcement signaled a change in tone for the Atlanta-based U.S. health agency, which had largely been focused on efforts to […]
Pentagon Preps Nuclear Moon Rocket
February 25th, 2020Via: Daily Beast: The U.S. government is working on an atomic rocket to send satellites into the vast space between Earth and the moon—before Beijing gets there with its own spacecraft.
Fairview Developmental Center: Zero Isolation Rooms, No Viral Containment Facilities and No Training for BSL-4 Biohazards
February 24th, 2020Via: Natural News: It begs the question: Why would the United States Air Force attempt to relocate up to 50 infected coronavirus patients to a facility with no biocontainment capabilities, right in the middle of a high-density population area near Los Angeles? Why wouldn’t the Air Force just keep the infected patients at the Travis […]
Counter Drone SWAT Team
February 22nd, 2020Via: Breaking Defense: Sometimes, when lives are at stake, even Silicon Valley can’t innovate fast enough. That’s why the director of the Defense Digital Service, Brett Goldstein, has started forming rapid-response “SWAT teams” drawing on the Defense Department’s in-house talent. The first such team that DDS director Brett Goldstein has created – pulling together both […]
A Virus Called Wuhan-400 Causes Outbreak in Dean Koontz Thriller from 1981
February 17th, 2020Via: South China Morning Post: The Eyes of Darkness, a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense author Dean Koontz, tells of a Chinese military lab that creates a virus as part of its biological weapons programme. The lab is located in Wuhan, which lends the virus its name, Wuhan-400.
