Global Editor, Aerospace & Defense at @Reuters
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Tensions are rising between the Pentagon and SpaceX over multiple issues, including an episode where Elon Musk's company hiked the price of Starlink/Starshield - used to guide strike drones - at the start of the Iran war.
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Exclusive: Anduril has touted success on Ukraine's battlefield as it sells its drones to Taiwan and the Pentagon.
But recent drone crashes and setbacks in Ukraine reported by Reuters add more to the story of how Anduril is going. reuters.com/business/aerospa…
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Exclusive: Military leaders have said they need autonomous swarms of maritime drones to take on China.
But the Navy's effort to achieve this is under scrutiny following test failures, the firing of a top admiral and a pause on a contract with L3Harris.
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New: China is swiftly forging space ties with African nations, and its investments in satellites and infrastructure are winning friends – and expanding its eyes on the skies – as America slashes help for developing countries. W/@ParkSuAm1996 @JoeReuters reuters.com/investigations/c…
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China is forming space alliances in Africa to boost its soft power and enhance its ability to spy from orbit. A Reuters Special Report explains reut.rs/3CMeGze @ParkSuAm1996 @joroulette @JoeReuters
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A stream (hopefully with some footage from the far side of the Moon) in just over two hours
About 2h 30min CCTV will have a special livestream of Chang’e 6. More info will be released in that. Live : m.yangshipin.cn/video?type=2…
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Boeing's Starliner capsule set for launch of first crewed space flight reut.rs/3KnQH9R
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Exclusive: French President Emmanuel Macron personally intervened to persuade Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to give Airbus and other aerospace firms relief from sanctions on Russian titanium reut.rs/4aIwxSs
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If #China tries to invade #Taiwan, swarms of small sea drones could act as a shield for valuable crewed assets and tangle up troop-carrying ships.
I shared with @JoeReuters and @MichaelStone that #Ukraine has shown how effective sea drones can be.
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China's military, state media slam U.S. after Reuters report on SpaceX spy satellites reuters.com/world/china/chin…
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New: For years, SpaceX has been developing in secret a significant new capability for U.S. intelligence agencies: a classified constellation of hundreds of Earth-imaging spy satellites. “No one can hide.” w/@marisaataylor: reuters.com/technology/space…
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Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni gives statement on killing of Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah
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The US-China tech war is heating up over undersea internet cables. Chinese state-owned telcos are developing a $500 million undersea fiber-optic cable that would link Asia, the Middle East and Europe to rival a similar US-backed project, sources say reut.rs/417XPNK
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Scientists have long studied the layers of the earth's crust to understand geological changes over millions of years. The latest layer is like nothing they've found before.
That's because it's plastic.
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This is the untold story of the most important prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War.
It’s one of the most important pieces of journalism I’ve worked on—and reveals many secrets about the way power really works in our world.
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I know we are distracted, but this horrific violence in South Sudan must be on the agenda. "Many of the abductees were subjected to sexual violence, including girls as young as eight-years-old and a nine-year-old girl who was gang-raped to death." f24.my/8sE4.T
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*ECSTATIC* to learn that my piece The Nature of Plastics will be featured in '22 Best American Science & Nature Writing, edited by @ayanaeliza & @jaimealyse! Never would've happened w/o the sheer brilliance of @rebecca_altman & @Orion_Magazine editor Sumanth Prabhaker. 🙏🙏🙏
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I've been looking at post-Covid recovery in education for some time. What works & what doesn't.
So @opinion let me to take a detour to northeast Brazil to look at a model that does.
Here's a 🧵on school, investment & closing those learning gaps (1/12)
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