Saturday, May 27, 2023

ARABSAT BADR-8 Mission 129,601 views Streamed live 6 hours ago

On Saturday, May 27 at 12:30 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched the ARABSAT BADR-8 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the 14th launch and landing for this Falcon 9 first stage booster, which previously launched GPS III Space Vehicle 04, GPS III Space Vehicle 05, Inspiration4, Ax-1, Nilesat 301, OneWeb Launch 17, and seven Starlink missions.
 

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Founded in 1976 by the 21 member-states of the Arab League, Arabsat has been serving the growing needs of the Arab world for over 46 years, operating from its headquarter in Riyadh-Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia and two Satellite control stations in Riyadh and Tunis.
Now one of the world’s top satellite operators and by far the leading satellite services provider in the Arab world, it carries over 650 TV channels, 245 radio stations, pay-tv networks and wide variety of HD channels reaching millions of homes in more than 60 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Europe—including an audience of over 300 million viewers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region alone tuned into Arabsat’s video “hotspot” at 26°E.

Below map highlights our media access points, media gateways, IP and data points as well as coming soon offices.



Arabsat owns and operates Seven satellites, at 3 orbital positions, 20°, 26°, 30.5° East: Arabsat-5C (20°E), BADR-4, BADR-5, BADR-6 and BADR-7 (26°E), Arabsat-5A and Arabsat-6A (30.5°E). 

These state-of-the-art satellites, now the youngest regional fleet over the MENA area, make Arabsat the only satellite operator based in the region offering the full spectrum of broadcast and telecommunications services.

These latest technology birds are equipped to provide, not only the highest downlink power over the widest coverage area than any other satellite fleet around, but also services in the most recent bands including Ka-band for innovative interactive services, a purely MENA beam, or highly sophisticatedly designed Market-Specific Spot beams.(North W.Africa, W.Africa, S.Africa, East MENA and C.Asia)

Arabsat offers the most secure, reliable, and versatile fleet with "hot" in-orbit back-up and guaranteed long-term expansion space capacity. Please click on any satellite below to view more details 

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IN REVIEW: The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

 

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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

BY POLITICO STAFF

CARTOON CAROUSEL

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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05/26/2023 04:30 AM EDT

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Friday, May 26, 2023

AGM-88 Why Ukraine GPS Guided Bombs Are Failing?

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Weapons of War: Buying-and-Selling F-16s 'is not just a transfer of aircraft. It has real geopolitical and strategic importance.'

This report at the Pentagon was made following a virtual meeting of the multinational Ukraine Defense Contact Group. 



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  • Norway recently sold 32 of its F-16s to Romania, and is waiting for Washington’s OK to sell a dozen more to Draken, a private company that contracts with the Pentagon to fly training missions.
  • Denmark has also sold its F-16s abroad, most recently working on a deal with Colombia, and is considering doing the same with Argentina, a process that has caught the eye of Congress.

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with Air Force leaders this month, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said there is a danger of Argentina buying Chinese fighter planes if the U.S. doesn’t approve the potential Danish sale of F-16s.

“I think we need to be very vigilant on this,” Kelly warned. “We can counter their pitch here by facilitating the transfer of Danish F-16s to Argentina. That’s a possibility. This is not just a transfer of aircraft. It has real geopolitical and strategic importance.” 

F-16s won’t be a ‘magic weapon’ for Ukraine, Milley warns

Top leaders also announce that Denmark and the Netherlands are leading an international effort to train Ukrainian pilots.

Portuguese Air Force F- 16 military fighter jets participating in NATO's Baltic Air Policing Mission operates in Lithuanian airspace.

“There are no magic weapons in war, F-16s are not and neither is anything else,” Gen. Mark Milley said. | Mindaugas Kulbis/AP Photo

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The military’s top general cautioned Thursday that F-16s won’t act as a “magic weapon” for Ukraine, but the U.S. is fully behind a group of NATO allies taking the lead on training and potentially transferring the jets to Kyiv. 

“The Russians have 1,000 fourth-generation fighters,” Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley told reporters at the Pentagon following a virtual meeting of the multinational Ukraine Defense Contact Group. “If you’re gonna contest Russia in the air, you’re gonna need a substantial amount of fourth and fifth generation fighters, so if you look at the cost curve and do the analysis, the smartest thing to have done is exactly what we did do, which is provide a significant amount of integrated air defenses to cover the battlespace and deny the Russians the airspace.”

Milley’s comments followed similar points made this week by Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who said the jets are “not going to be a dramatic game-changer” for Ukraine, though “it’s something that makes sense for them. It’s going to help them” in the long run.

Fighter jets are vastly more expensive than artillery rounds and ground vehicles, which Western allies have focused on flooding into Ukraine to help push Russian forces back in the south. Spending the money on those near-term weapons, as opposed to expensive warplanes with their complex logistical needs, has been worthwhile, Milley said. . ."


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