The United States is sending more air defense missiles to Kyiv as part of another batch of military aid confirmed on the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day, U.S. President Joe Biden said late Friday. After speaking with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Biden said almost 400 individuals and organizations would also be sanctioned as part of efforts to punish those responsible for Russia’s invasion. The latest military aid package for Kyiv includes new air defense missiles along with counter-drone equipment, anti-armor missiles, mobile rocket systems and ammunition. “Make no mistake: Russia will not prevail in this conflict,” Biden said. “The independent people…
Author: Joshua Posaner
The European Union should avoid spending billions on competing against Elon Musk’s entrenched Starlink global communications system, and instead zero in on areas where SpaceX has a smaller lead, a Finland-based satellite company chief told POLITICO. Rafał Modrzewski, the CEO of ICEYE, said that an example of what not to do was the troubled European effort to build its own version of Starlink called IRIS². It’s a project that will be built by the bloc’s behemoth aerospace players, such as Airbus and Thales Alenia Space, and then operated by its telecoms and satellite giants in the SpaceRise consortium. “Totally new…