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RadarDaily Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)

Four decades of development stand behind Iran drone industry

The drones Iran has launched in the thousands at Gulf states and US bases since the Middle East war began on February 28, 2026 come from an industry that has been under construction since the mid-1980s, according to rese...

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RadarDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Poland eases rules for fighter pilots to shoot down foreign aircraft: minister

Poland will allow its fighter planes and helicopters to shoot down foreign aircraft detected by radar under special wartime defenc...

RadarDaily Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
French military support to Saudi Arabia 'defensive': FM

French military support being given to Saudi Arabia to help it confront attacks from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis is "strictly defe...

RadarDaily Sep 27, 2026 (AFP)
Iran Guards say seized US underwater drone in Hormuz

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that they seized an American submarine drone in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which T...

SkyNightly Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Lunar dust control moves from lab to Moon as crewed landings near

Engineers preparing for long stays on the Moon now have flight data showing that electric fields can clear lunar dust from hardwar...

Network Briefing - Cross-Domain Headlines
NanoDaily Singapore university satellite CRIMSON-1 reaches orbit to trial perovskite solar cells and onboard AI 3D printed cement supercapacitor stores energy while matching concrete strength Quantum Decoherence Can Lock Cosmological Fields Into False Vacuums
SinoDaily Silicone rubber composite seals in tritium and blocks radiation for fusion plants Prussian blue framework steadies perovskite solar cells from lab cells to 30 cm submodules Printed wallpaper harvests indoor humidity to power small electronics
DarwinDaily Sea-level records point to rapid polar wander episodes in the Jurassic and Cretaceous Mongolian microfossils push possible origin of animals back by 200 million years Brazil braces for results of election battle between Lula and Bolsonaro
SkyNightly Roman telescope ground stations on three continents pass full-rate downlink tests Nearby habitable-zone planets probably host microbes, not advanced life, study estimates Four thorium-229 sites mapped in calcium fluoride crystals for nuclear clock design
BeyondLEO Ramses spacecraft powered up for first time ahead of 2029 Apophis encounter Orbiter tracking data expose hot region in mantle beneath southern Mars Momentus tracks NASA CubeSat with low-cost LiDAR and camera suite in orbital proximity test
SolarCell Magenta semi-transparent solar panels let broccoli reach full size in Swedish field trial Biomass aerogel modeled on fish gills keeps solar evaporators free of salt Balloon-borne Sunrise-III finds thread-like magnetic structures above the quiet Sun
BatteryDaily Lignin gel made from paper mill black liquor generates power from waste heat and sunlight Russian drone hits Kyiv nuclear institute grounds, reactor undamaged Bulgaria's battery boom pays off as drought hits power plants
PolicyDaily L3Harris wins seven-year order worth over $6 billion to expand THAAD propulsion output Army chief says Israel must draw lessons from Oct 7 'failures' Iran tells US there is no military solution to Middle East war
DisasterDay Chiba typhoon losses reach 2.6 billion yen as next disaster threatens to outpace recovery CORRECTED: Five quakes rattle south Turkey, no injuries Storms, flooding cause chaos on Greek holiday island of Crete
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RadarDaily MILITARY Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Canada signs preliminary agreement for Saab radar aircraft

Canada on Friday announced a preliminary agreement signed with Swedish arms giant Saab to acquire six GlobalEye radar aircraft.

RadarDaily SPACE INDUSTRY Sep 24, 2026 (SPX)
Iridium Stockholders Approve Rocket Lab Acquisition Deal

Iridium Communications stockholders have adopted the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger under which Rocket Lab will acquire the satellite communications company, the...

RadarDaily CYBER WARS Sep 22, 2026 (SPX)
European Consortium to Test IRIS2 Satellite Communications Against Cyberattack

Cybersecurity company CybExer is leading a ten-company European consortium developing an end-to-end capability to test and validate protected satellite communications linked to IRI...

RadarDaily MOON Sep 18, 2026 (SPX)
NASA, IBM Release Open-Source AI Model For Analyzing Moon Data, With USRA Support

NASA and IBM Research have released an open-source artificial intelligence model designed to help scientists analyze the large and diverse datasets returned by lunar missions, with...

SkyNightly EXTRA SOLAR Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Webb data indicate an atmosphere on HD 3167 b, the coolest lava world yet found with one

In the search for life beyond Earth, rocky planets with atmospheres are the natural first targets, since a planet without an atmosphere cannot hold surface water. Yet of the more t...

SolarCell FROTH AND BUBBLE Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Solar-activated catalyst in bin lid breaks down odors from rotting food waste

Garbage left outdoors begins to smell quickly, particularly in warm, humid climates that speed up food decay. Writing in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science...

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Network Domain Collections
Space & Science
BlackSky imagery to feed SkyFi satellite analytics app for Robinhood retail investors
SkyNightly
Michigan State University Gets 20 Million Dollars to Build Diamond Semiconductor Facility for Space Applications
NanoDaily
DAVINCI probe model survives six furnace runs at Venus surface temperature
BeyondLEO
HotSat-3 reaches orbit to give SatVu daily thermal imaging coverage
SkyNightly
Silicon Solar Cells Could Cut Satellite Power Costs by Up to 90 Percent
NanoDaily
Earth & Energy
Pacific nations take centre stage at 'pre-COP' climate summit
DarwinDaily
Tanker damaged after attack in Hormuz: maritime agency
OilGasDaily
Finnish town braces for change from Google data centres
SeedDaily
US miner KoBold bets on AI to gain edge in DR Congo mineral hunt
AfricaDaily
Standard Cameras Modified to Measure Solar Cell Quantum Efficiency
SolarCell
Tech & Industry
Iranian oil minister quits, replaced by oil executive: presidency
PolicyDaily
Spy chief Clayton, the Trump loyalist tech bosses trust on AI
RoboDaily
Moldova summons Russia envoy over drone, missile incursions
RussoDaily
Thai Airways sacks CEO after floods flight chaos: reports
DisasterDay
Asian stocks hit as oil spike fans rate hike bets, eyes on US jobs
FiscalDaily
Wire Feed
PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Yemen presidency announces military drive to retake all Houthi territory

Yemen's leader announced on Sunday the start of a new military operation to retake all territory held by the H...

PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Iran airlines resume flights to Iraqi holy city after US exemption

Iranian airlines resumed flights to Iraq's Najaf on Sunday after the United States granted Baghdad an exemptio...

DarwinDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Brazil votes in nail-biter polls closely watched by Trump

Brazilians started voting Sunday in a knife-edge race between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Flavio B...

PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Houthis target Aramco sites in Saudi capital, Khurais area: statement

Yemen's Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree on Sunday said the group launched a ballistic missile and drone ...