Leading academics from across Cranfield University are calling for a new approach to UK resilience. Writing in today’s Financial Times, the academics believe that as well as lessons learnt from the response to COVID-19 there is a much wider lesson to be learnt about how the UK identifies, prepares and responds to threats and risks, such as to our safety, our national security and from climate change.
Talking of approaching the target, this superb painting by Ivan Berryman depicts F/O George Stewart DFC, RCAF shooting up Ju88 night-fighters on a ‘Day Ranger’ sortie attacking Fliegerhorst Grove, Jutland Denmark on September 26th, 1944.
In true ‘Ranger’ style thanks to your continued effort to press on and deliver we have now raised 28% of our goal in just over 6 weeks with a running total in excess of …
Halifax, Nova Scotia – May 22, 2020 – Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (“Ucore” or the “Company“) (TSXV:UCU) (OTCQX:UURAF) is pleased to announce that it has closed the first tranche of its $2.8 million non-brokered private placement (the “Financing“) of unsecured convertible debentures (“Convertible Debentures“), as previously announced on April 27, 2020. The Company currently intends to close the remainder of the Financing on May 29, 2020.
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NASA’s Science Mission Directorate will hold a community town hall meeting via teleconference with Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen and his leadership team at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 28, to discuss updates in NASA’s science program and the current status of NASA activities.
This month marked an important date in our calendars as the country came together to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day. Europe fell silent for a moment to honour those who served their country. This year, the message was particularly poignant as we face a different threat, with the spread of coronavirus.
Customs and Border Protection Multi Enforcement Aircraft patrol the sky over the United States. Photo by Alex Zamora
WICHITA, Kan. (May 20, 2020) – Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, was awarded a contract for two additional Beechcraft King Air 350CER turboprop aircraft for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO). After mission modifications by Sierra Nevada Corporation, these two Multi-role Enforcement Aircraft (MEA) aircraft will join a fleet of 23 other King Air 350 aircraft used to safeguard the United States homeland as part of the coordinated application of CBP’s aviation and maritime law enforcement resources.
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of Chile’s Atacama Desert, which is bound on the west by the Pacific and on the east by the Andes. The Atacama is considered one of the driest places on Earth – there are some parts of the desert where rainfall has never been recorded.
| AeroVironment’s new Quantix™ Recon, a fully–automated reconnaissance unmanned aircraft system. |
SIMI VALLEY, Calif., April 23, 2020 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today announced the availability of Quantix™ Recon, a lightweight, rapidly deployable, fully-automated reconnaissance solution that delivers high resolution, georeferenced terrain, vegetation and infrastructure imagery, providing ground forces with on-demand actionable intelligence.
NASA Telescope Named For ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman
 NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is now named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy.
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NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer, who paved the way for space telescopes focused on the broader universe.
