NASA launches spacecraft to fix sinking telescope

A recovery mission to save NASA’s Swift Observatory telescope was launched Friday, with the three-armed spacecraft successfully reentering orbit from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Swift telescope satellite weighs 1.6 tons (1.4 metric tons) and is orbiting 224 miles (360 kilometers) above Earth. US defense contractor Northrop Grumman launched Catalyst Space Technologies’ … Read more

‘Not a proxy war’: Sudan civil war ‘would not go on like this’ without role of international players

Gavin Lee is pleased to welcome Jan Pospisil, Sudan Affairs Analyst at the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform. He says the siege has been going on for almost a year, and the RSF seems committed to seizing el-Obeid. While Pospisil explains that Sudan’s civil war is not a proxy war in the literal sense, … Read more