Research Underway to Enable Satellites to Permanently Orbit in Very Low Earth Orbit
February 9th, 2025Is this actually going to happen?
I don’t know why, but Cryptogon is read by many people who are qualified to provide a sanity check on this. I hope they comment.
Needless to say, it would be very bad if remote operated/autonomous weapon systems were able to use realtime, high definition imagery, available planet-wide, for ISTAR.
This would be very, very bad. Double plus bad.
Current systems require tasking (with sometimes lengthy delays) or deployment of assets that have limited loitering durations.
As you continue to be fleeced to within an inch of your life for energy, the space based control grid… Fuels itself?!?
Via: BBC:
“When you start describing it to people, it starts to sound like a perpetual motion machine,” says Spence Wise, senior vice-president at Redwire, an aerospace firm in Florida. A perpetual motion machine is not meant to be possible. But it almost is, in this instance.
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This new generation of orbiters could enable ultra-high-definition surveillance of activities on the ground, or superfast satellite-based communications.
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They are developing technology to harvest molecules from the thin layer of air that is present in VLEO in order to actually propel satellites here. Such a system, called Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion (ABEP), has been made possible by advancements in electric and ion propulsion in recent years. In essence, it involves fixing a large bucket or opening to the front of the satellite, into which gas molecules from the atmosphere flow before they are ionised to create plasma that generates thrust.
“The idea is to use the same air slowing down your satellite as a propellant,” says Francesco Romano, a scientist at the Swiss Plasma Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, who has previously studied this technology. Using electric and magnetic fields, the engine would ionise gas from the atmosphere, taking away one electron from each molecule, to produce a free electron and an ion. Then, using magnets, the electrons and ions are pushed out the back of the spacecraft, producing thrust. “Theoretically, if you can generate a thrust that is the same as your drag, you stay at this altitude for an infinite amount of time,” says Romano.
To date, an assortment of experimental ABEP systems have been able to produce relatively small amounts of thrust at ground level, but their feasibility in orbit has yet to be properly tested.
USAID Funded Massive ‘News’ Platform, Extending ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ To Billions Worldwide
February 9th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
In addition to propping up far-left corporate media outlets like Politico and the BBC with taxpayer funds, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funneled half a billion dollars to a secretive non-governmental organization operating a global news propaganda matrix.
WikiLeaks published the bombshell report in the overnight hours that shows the massive taxpayer-funded state propaganda network – operating as a shady NGO – called “Internews Network”:
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, “Internews Network” (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and “training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.
Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
February 7th, 2025Via: MacRumors:
The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports The Washington Post.
The undisclosed order is said to have been issued last month, and requires that Apple creates a back door that allows UK security officials unencumbered access to encrypted user data worldwide – an unprecedented demand not before seen in any other democratic country.
The spying order came by way of a “technical capability notice,” a document sent to Apple by the Home Secretary, ordering it to provide access under the sweeping UK Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) of 2016. Critics have labeled the legislation the “Snooper’s Charter,” as it authorizes law enforcement to compel assistance from companies when needed to collect evidence.
An Apple spokesperson declined to comment on the revelation, though the law actually makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government even made such a demand.
Upcoming Steven Spielberg UFO Film: “Disclosure”
February 7th, 2025Mmm hmm.
Via: World of Reel:
Shooting on “Disclosure” is set to begin in New Jersey on February 28.
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No plot details at this time, but the story, written by David Koepp, is said to be a “two-hander” with a UFO storyline.
Mel Gibson Claimed Qigong Master Levitated Him During Therapy
February 7th, 2025You might think Mel Gibson’s claims sound like nonsense. I think they sound like nonsense.
Here’s something that happened to me that also sounds like nonsense:
About thirty years ago I was doing sales related work. I had a customer who owned a furniture shop in Huntington Beach, California. He had a bunch of pictures of him and other people doing some sort of martial art.
I asked, “What style of martial art are you into?”
I’m pretty sure he said that it was Judo and he was a 3rd dan black belt.
“But,” he said, “The style doesn’t matter and neither does the belt. What matters most is your mastery of qi.”
“What’s qi?” I asked.
“Hold up a hand,” he said.
“Are you going to hit me?” I asked.
“No,” he chuckled
I held up my right hand.
He held his right hand a few inches from mine.
“Ready?” he asked.
“Uhh, I’m ready.”
An instant later, I felt an intense burning sensation on the palm of my hand and immediately pulled it away.
“That’s qi,” he said.
Believe it or not. I don’t care. It happened.
Via: Video Advice:
RC-135 Rivet Joint Surveillance Jet Just Flew Unprecedented Mission Off Mexico
February 6th, 2025Via: The War Zone:
A U.S. Air Force RC-135V Rivet Joint conducted a highly unusual flight in the Gulf of California yesterday, between Mexico’s Baja Peninsula and the rest of that country, according to online flight tracking data. The strategic intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) plane looks to have done the same today.
The Rivet Joint is one of America’s most capable intelligence-gathering assets and the appearance of one off the Mexican coast is a significant development. This comes amid a major increase in U.S. military support for operations along the border with Mexico under President Donald Trump and talk of unprecedented direct action by American forces against drug cartels, which you can read more about in this separate TWZ feature.
Flight tracking software shows RC-135V serial number 64-14845 flew southwest from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska to the skies over southern California on Feb. 3. Offutt is home to the 55th Wing, which oversees the bulk of the Air Force’s Rivet Joint fleet along with an array of other ISR and highly specialized command and control aircraft. The jet then hooked south along the Pacific coast of the Baja Peninsula before flying up into the Gulf of California. The aircraft subsequently returned to Offutt following the same route, but in reverse.
Aluminum Batteries
February 6th, 2025Via: IEEE Spectrum:
Electric vehicles( EVs) and green energy sources rely heavily on batteries to store electricity. Currently, more than 75 percent of the world’s energy storage depends on batteries that contain lithium, an expensive mineral that’s subject to volatile pricing. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries themselves can be volatile, too, because they use a flammable electrolyte that can catch fire when overcharged.
Now, a group of scientists based in Beijing believes that aluminum offers a better solution. Aluminum is the third-most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust and costs about one-quarter as much as lithium. And if built right, aluminum-based batteries may offer longer life expectancy and a safer, more sustainable design than their volatile counterparts. Led by scientists from the Beijing Institute of Technology and the University of Science and Technology Beijing, the group has found a way to stabilize aluminum batteries that can last far longer.
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The new battery structure should be easy to manufacture at commercial scale. But before the Al-ion battery is ready for commercial applications, its energy density will need to be improved, the researchers say. Still, this new approach offers the potential for batteries that are safer, less expensive, longer lasting, and easier to recycle efficiently.
Politico, NY Times Propped Up By Millions Of Dollars From U.S. Government
February 5th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
According to government spending tracker website USASPENDING.gov, Politico – which laundered the Hunter Biden ’51 intel officials’ propaganda during the 2020 election – received up to $27 million (and by some counts $32 million) from various US agencies during the Biden years.
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And look at this, the NY Times received $3.1 million in taxpayer funds, while the UK’s BBC received $3.2 million.
TRUMP: U.S. WILL “TAKE OVER” and “OWN” GAZA STRIP
February 4th, 2025What do the zionists have on Trump?
Any guesses?
My guess is not backed up by anything, so I don’t want to suggest it. (Hint: I don’t think it’s an Epstein-like honeypot.) But if you want to guess, go ahead.
Via: Al Jazeera:
United States President Donald Trump has said the US will “take over” and “own” Gaza after resettling Palestinians elsewhere under a redevelopment plan that could see the enclave become “the Riviera of the Middle East”.
In a shock announcement upending decades of US policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Trump said on Tuesday that his administration would spearhead an economic development plan in the enclave that would “supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. We’ll own it,” Trump said at the White on Tuesday after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, adding that Washington would be responsible for clearing destroyed buildings and dismantling “dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons.”
Trump said he envisioned the US taking a “long-term ownership position” over the enclave.
“This was not a decision made lightly. Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent,” he said.
Trump expressed his hope that displaced Palestinians in Gaza would “go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts”, though he suggested Palestinians would also continue leaving there.
The US president said Gaza could become home to the “world’s people”.
“I think you will make that into an international, unbelievable place. I think the potential in the Gaza Strip is unbelievable. And I think the entire world – representatives from all over the world will be now – Palestinians also, Palestinians will live there,” he said. “Many people will live there.”
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Asked if US soldiers could be sent to Gaza to maintain security, Trump said it was a possibility.
“As far as Gaza is concerned, we’ll do what is necessary. If it’s necessary, we’ll do that,” he said.
Netanyahu, who praised Trump as the “greatest friend” Israel has ever had, said the US president’s plan was worth “paying attention to” and could “change history”.
Flashback: Jared Kushner: ‘Very Valuable’ Potential of Gaza’s ‘Waterfront Property’
Two Airport Authority Workers Arrested for Allegedly Leaking DC Plane Crash Video to CNN
February 4th, 2025Two new videos obtained by CNN show new angles on Wednesday night’s midair collision above Washington DC.
In the videos both aircraft can clearly be seen flying towards each other, then exploding and falling into the river after the fatal explosion. pic.twitter.com/W89o5387fp
— Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) January 31, 2025
Via: New York Post:
Two employees of the authority that manages Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were arrested over their alleged involvement in leaking surveillance footage of last week’s deadly midair aircraft collision to CNN.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) staffers are accused of making an unauthorized copy of records and are facing charges of computer trespass, the agency said Monday.
The legal trouble is tied to the chilling video obtained by CNN last week that offered a horrifying new vantage point in the crash over the Potomac River, ABC News reported.
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The exclusive videos gave a closer and clearer look at the air disaster, including one clip in which the chopper is darting from the left side of the screen as the American Airlines flight approached the airport.
A second short clip shows the Black Hawk, which was carrying three soldiers, and the Bombardier CRJ700 steaming toward each other before the two smash into each other and explode.
Both videos were shot on cell phones, CNN reported Friday.
