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Turkey – How Turkey Bypasses Western Arms Embargoes (Burak Bekdil, BESA Center)

US and Canadian embargoes are threatening Turkey’s attack helicopter and drone sales to third-party countries. Ankara has come up with a corporate legal solution...

Space – From atoms to planets, the longest-running Space Station experiment (ESA)

As Europe celebrates 20 years of ESA astronauts on the International Space Station, a Russian-European experiment has been running quietly in the weightless research...

Russia/Belarus – Russia, Belarus, and the Empire Debate (Emil Avdaliani, BESA Center)

Belarus is growing increasingly isolated and is pushing itself more and more into Russia’s embrace. Moscow is taking the opportunity to cement Belarus as...

Space – Chandra Turns Up the Heat in the Milky Way Center (NASA)

This 2004 image was produced by combining a dozen observations from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory made of a 130 light-year region in the center of the...

Space – NASA Offers $45M to Solve Risks for Astronaut Moon Landing Services (NASA)

NASA is preparing to establish a regular cadence of trips to the Moon under Artemis. To help the agency fine-tune its approach, NASA will award...

Space – NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’ (Andrew Good, Karen Fox, Josh Handal, NASA)

https://youtu.be/t2gMaK003B8 NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on Mars, the Perseverance rover, is beginning an epic journey across a crater floor seeking signs of ancient life. That means the...

Space – First high-altitude drop test success for ExoMars parachute (ESA)

ExoMars 2022 parachute deployment sequence After several weeks of bad weather and strong winds, the latest pair of high-altitude drop tests of the ExoMars parachutes...

Earth from Space – North Frisian Islands (ESA)

Part of the Frisian Islands, a low-lying archipelago just off the coast of northern Europe, is visible in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2...

USA – VA Is Asking Congress for Fewer IT Dollars in 2022 But Plans to Spend More Than in 2021 (Aaron Boyd, Nextgov)

The Veterans Affairs Department is asking Congress for fewer dollars to spend on IT systems in 2022 but plans to supplement that request from...

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