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Project Blackjack was intended to demonstrate the value of a proliferated satellite constellation made up of dozens of satellites in low Earth orbit, but the Pentagon has since bought into the concept and begun investing in an operational alternative.

‘Then, when I was looking round the church, someone showed me this stained-glass John the Baptist window, where he’s holding a lamb. And so, I thought the idea of him holding the Lamb of God out over the town, and looking down on them at the same time, could be quite impressive.’  Impressive, yes, and also hugely appropriate, with Cirencester’s importance as a wool town.  Then, as serendipity would have it, we need to decamp from the church as Midday Prayer begins, and go to the nearby Fleece. On the short walk, I consider Rodney’s depiction of John, and have to agree; the symboli...

A campaign to replace two 600-year-old church statues that were lost almost 60 years ago has been given a boost thanks to a donation from Cotswold District Council. The statues from the tower of the St John Baptist Church in Cirencester were removed in 1963 due to safety concerns and mysteriously disappeared in the years that followed. The project to replace the historic statues is being funded by grants and donations from local organisations, including the council. Project Blackjack involved a national design competition and international sculptor Rodney Munday has been chosen to cre...

L3Harris leaped from tracking weather to tracking missiles, cracking a competitive field Nathan Strout keyboard_arrow_down An artist's depiction of L3Harris' tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency to track and target hypersonic weapons from space. (L3Harris) WASHINGTON — In January 2017, one of the government’s newest weather satellites picked up the most bizarre signal: a wildfire moving at breakneck speeds across the Atlantic Ocean. Now, wildfires don’t spread across the ocean, and they cert...