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Four NASA Earth Science missions to launch in 2022 (Debra Werner, SpaceNews)

NASA’s Earth Science Division is preparing to launch four satellite missions in 2022 to provide observations of weather conditions, mineral dust, oceans and surface...

Iceye to provide satellite for MDA radar constellation (Jeff Foust, SpaceNews)

Canada’s MDA is acquiring an X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite from Iceye that will be part of its Chorus system intended to replace...

Chinese Firms Targeted by New Biden Orders Meant to Curb Fentanyl, Synthetic Drugs (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Four Chinese companies and one Chinese citizen have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department, under just-announced Biden administration executive orders intended to help...

Trollfare: How to Recognize and Fight Off Online Psyops (Larissa Doroshenko, Josephine Lukito, Defense One)

EU President Ursula von der Leyen and others have correctly diagnosed Belarus’ use of migrants as part of a “hybrid attack” against Europe’s democracies....

Pacific Deterrence Initiative: A look at funding in the new defense bill, and what must happen now (Dustin Walker, Defense News)

The Pentagon’s first draft of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative has been dead on arrival since its submission to Congress in May. But with the...

Littoral combat ships in Mayport make the most of a year of restricted operations (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The Littoral Combat Ship Squadron 2 (LCSRON 2) is, in one way, coming off a rough patch: Two of its Freedom-variant LCSs suffered major...

Public-private team in Turkey unveils drone with laser gun (Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News)

A public-private partnership in Turkey claims it has created the world’s first drone armed with a laser weapon. The Eren was on display at the...

FY22 defense bill gives feds parental bereavement leave, makes changes at the Pentagon (Jessie Bur, Defense News)

Federal employees that experience the death of a child will now be guaranteed two weeks of paid leave set aside specifically for that bereavement,...

Congress passes defense policy bill with budget boost, military justice reforms (Leo Shane III and Joe Gould, Defense News)

After months of debate and weeks of angst, the Senate on Wednesday voted 88-11 to finalize plans for a $740 billion authorization bill for the...

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