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BEIJING, China, January 09 – Tesla CEO Elon Musk, left, shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as he arrives for a meeting at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound on January 9, 2018 in Beijing, China. Photo by Mark Schiefelbein – Pool/Getty Images Watch Musk deliver remarks at the groundbreaking, below:
The first color image of Ultima Thule, taken at a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) at 4:08 Universal Time on January 1, 2019, highlights its reddish surface. Above, at left is an enhanced color image taken by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), produced by combining the near infrared, red and blue channels. The […]
Per NASA’s press release: NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone. New images from the lander show the seismometer on the ground, its copper-colored covering faintly illuminated in the Martian dusk. It looks as if all is calm and all is bright for InSight, […]
An Afghan Air Force Security Forces member mans a base perimeter guardhouse Dec. 17, 2018, in Afghanistan. The mission of Train, Advise, Assist, Command-Air is to train, advise, and assist Afghan partners to develop a professional, capable, and sustainable air force. TAAC-Air leverages train, advise and assist activities in concert with strong personal relationships, to […]
U.S. Navy Damage Controlman 3rd Class Ian Smith stands covered in aqueous film forming foam on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the Pacific Ocean Dec. 20, 2018. Theodore Roosevelt is underway in the Eastern Pacific conducting routine operations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd […]
Photo caption per the Chinese People’s Liberation Army website: Soldiers assigned to a unit under the PLA Rocket Force prepare DF-16 ballistic missile systems during training on January 3, 2019. Watch a collection of Chinese missile test launches below:
According to an article published by the U.S. Southern Command, Chinese fishing vessels have aggressively violated maritime boundaries and conducted illegal fishing operations as far away as South America in older to sustain China’s massive demand for seafood. This entanglement isn’t purely economic, and comes with reverberating effects within both security and environmental circles the […]
GULF OF ADEN (Dec. 27, 2018) Members of the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon’s (DDG 93) Visit, Board, Search and Seizure team (VBSS) board a stateless dhow that was transporting 11,000 pounds of illicit drugs in the international waters of the Gulf of Aden. Chung-Hoon is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in […]
The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star breaks ice in McMurdo Sound near Antarctica on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018. The crew of the Seattle-based Polar Star is on deployment to Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze 2018, the U.S. military’s contribution to the National Science Foundation-managed U.S. Antarctic Program. U.S. Coast Guard photo by […]
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Kevin Ware prepares to launch a small unmanned aircraft system as part of exercise Joint Assault Signals Company Black at Waiouru Military Camp, New Zealand, on September 13, 2018. The small unmanned aircraft system provides surveillance, target location, and reconnaissance for ground units. Ware, a native of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is […]
A U.S. Navy landing craft unit (LCU) enters the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) as part of the Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 4 composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX) in the Atlantic Ocean on Nov. 1, 2018. COMPTUEX is the final pre-deployment exercise that certifies the combined Kearsarge […]
Russian search and rescue teams arrive at the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft shortly after it landed with Expedition 57 crew members Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Auñón-Chancellor, Gerst, and Prokopyev returned after 197 days […]
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