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The design of the NGHT-1X is based on the NASA-H71M Hall-effect thruster. Northrop Grumman has developed an advanced propulsion technology to facilitate future planetary exploration missions using small spacecraft. The new technology Planetary science missions will be required to perform challenging propulsive maneuvers—such as achieving planetary escape velocities, orbit capture, and more—that require a velocity change (delta-v) capability well in excess of typical commercial needs and the current state
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2 years ago Read more at Phys.org

Boeing reports quarterly revenue drop 05:37 business. The planemaker's board has yet to name a successor to CEO Dave Calhoun.
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2 years ago Read more at FRANCE 24 English

UAT4356 (aka STORM-1849) has been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in ASA and FTD firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks worldwide. Cisco Talos researchers tracked this cyber-espionage campaign as ArcaneDoor. Early in 2024, a customer contacted Cisco to report a suspicious related to its Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA)
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2 years ago Read more at Security Affairs

Chief Todd Cornelius was joined by council and volunteers to officially unveil the new Indigenous Community Gardens. The event was the highlight of a series of activities in the community to mark Earth Week. They represent the Bear, Wolf and Turtle clans, which are part of the community’s culture.
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2 years ago Read more at CTV News London

Probable nation-state hackers targeted Cisco firewall appliances in a campaign dating to late 2023, the networking giant disclosed Wednesday. Cisco said it spotted hackers implanting malware and potentially stealing data from infected devices. It said the threat actor behind the attacks doesn't match already-known groups. How exactly hackers penetrated the networks is unknown.
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2 years ago Read more at BankInfoSecurity.com

Guest speaker Halima Chowdary recited In Flanders Field before the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the official Navy Band performed Abide By Me. Crowds outside Melbourne’s Shrine.
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2 years ago Read more at Sydney Morning Herald

iStock Growing up in a pre-internet world, I relished my late mother’s recollections of her Tasmanian upbringing. She was an only child of a father who abandoned his wife and daughter, and a mother who died when my mum was young.
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2 years ago Read more at Sydney Morning Herald

Every year, companies produce more than 400 million metric tons of plastic. Some of that plastic spills onto waterways or beaches, clogging streams or floating in huge gyres in the ocean. Scientists are rushing to understand the consequences of the tiny pieces of plastic that can enter the body and organs.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh spoke before senators for a wide-ranging discussion about health care access, affordability and staffing in southeastern Massachusetts. Walsh described the financing structure at Steward — which sold its physical properties years ago and now leases back the hospitals — as 'unlike anything I've seen' Walsh said that it has 'made their hospitals less attractive to potential acquirers'
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2 years ago Read more at WBUR News

Rashon Lane, PhD, of Sutter Health’s Center for Health Systems Research, joined The American Journal of Managed Care® for an interview before her presentation at the Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event in San Francisco, California. Can you share the key takeaways from your presentation: Equitable Treatment in Cardiometabolic Health Across the Lifespan? I really wanted to talk about how we think about research and science and cardiometabolic disease prevention, and specifically in thinking not only from a very descriptive standpoint.
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2 years ago Read more at AJMC.com Managed Markets Network