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Andy1974

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Everything Amerikkkan is collapsing and malfunctioning these days...

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NASA loses touch with Moon probe​

The US space agency hopes to re-establish contact with the CAPSTONE mission

The probe testing an orbital approach for the Artemis Moon program experienced a communication problem within a day of leaving the low Earth orbit, the US space agency said on Tuesday. NASA engineers are hopeful they can fix whatever caused the CAPSTONE probe to lose contact and rescue the mission considered crucial for returning to the Moon.

The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) probe “experienced communications issues while in contact with the Deep Space Network,” NASA spokesperson Sarah Frazier
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on Tuesday.

The spacecraft team is “working to understand the cause and re-establish contact,” Frazier said, adding that they have “good trajectory data” based on CAPSTONE’s previous contacts with the network. Frazier added that the probe “has enough fuel to delay the initial post separation trajectory correction maneuver for several days,” if necessary.

The $32 million probe that weighs about 25 kilograms (55 pounds) was launched from New Zealand on June 28. The mission seemed to be going well as late as Monday, when CAPSTONE was boosted from the Earth’s orbit and into a ballistic lunar transfer trajectory.

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was to use CAPSTONE as a pathfinder for Gateway, a Moon-orbiting waystation for the Artemis program to land humans onto the lunar surface for the first time in decades. The near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) is located at the precise balance point between the Earth and lunar gravities and requires “minimal energy to maintain,” and offers an unobstructed line of sight with the Earth.

The orbit’s proximity to the lunar surface at times also means a spacecraft flying to and from the Moon will need less fuel, making it “an ideal staging area for missions to the Moon and beyond,” according to the US space agency. CAPSTONE was supposed to “demonstrate the reliability of innovative spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation solutions as well as communication capabilities with Earth.”

Originally intended to land a human crew on the Moon by 2024, the Artemis program has been delayed due to lack of funding. NASA is still pursuing it, with an eye on landing the “first woman and first person of color” on the Moon eventually. Administrator Bill Nelson, a former Democrat senator from Florida, recently argued that the US must get to the Moon before China, so as to stop Beijing from claiming and weaponizing the Earth’s natural satellite.
Why is NASA not sending LGBTQ+ people to the moon?
 

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Blinken to seek G20 pressure on Russia to open sea lanes, warn China on Ukraine: Diplomats​

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will call on G20 nations this week to put pressure on Russia to support United Nations efforts to reopen sea lanes blocked by the Ukraine conflict and repeat warnings to China not to support Moscow’s war effort, diplomats have said.

Blinken heads to Asia on Wednesday for a meeting of Group of 20 foreign ministers in Bali on Friday. His trip will include his first meeting with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi since October, but no meeting is expected with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Ramin Toloui, assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs, told reporters Blinken would raise energy security and a UN initiative to try to get Ukrainian and Russian foodstuffs and fertiliser back to global markets.

Meanwhile, top US diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, said he expected a “candid” exchange on Ukraine in Blinken’s talks with China’s Wang, which are expected on Saturday.
“This will be another opportunity … to convey our expectations about what we would expect China to do and not to do in the context of Ukraine,” he said.

The US is threatening China again lol. Your stupid oil price cap will never work and neither will they backstab Russia for the Neocons.
 

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Dutch cops fire ‘targeted shots’ at protesting farmers​

The incident comes amid unrest over green reforms that are set to have major impacts on the agricultural sector

Police in the Netherlands fired their service weapons at farmers protesting new environmental reforms, with video footage showing officers shooting at a tractor as it attempted to evade law enforcement.

Oh no. Nancy finally got her wish… wait a minute. This isn’t China.
 

BlackWindMnt

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Is there anyone from the Netherlands here that can give a first hand account?
The supermarket shelfs really are empty, I have never seen anything like this before not even in the first week of the lock downs it was only the toilet paper that was hard to get. They might be filled again today or tomorrow after the farmers are done with their protest.

What they do is go with a couple of tractors to a distribution center block the entrance and exit gates etc. They are also riding with tractors through cities closing or slowing down traffic. Some are going on high ways to block traffic, then you have some that are blocking border crossing roads going into Belgium and Germany. But its not a complete country wide shut down except for food distribution.

I had multiple buddies from my hometown going on strike blocking distribution centers.
They have my full support the Dutch government has been going to war via lawfare with the Dutch farmers for decades already.
 

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In truth, the German industrial export machine was fuelled by cheap energy from Russia – and that fuel could soon run dry, as Wolfgang Münchau
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in last week’s magazine. For most of the post-war era, Germany has prided itself on very low inflation, a stable currency, and a huge trade surplus. Right now, it has a very Italian or Greek mix of 8 per cent inflation, a crumbling currency, and a rising trade deficit. Many other countries are used to that, but for Germans it will come as a shock.
 
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