Resilience, adaptiveness and collaboration vital for success in space (Studio)
Speakers at the Defence In Space Conference (DISC) 2025 highlighted the critical and evolving role of space in national security, defence and the global economy.
Pinnacle Airlines Corporation has released capacity and operational results for its Colgan Air subsidiary for January 2010.
The carrier generated 41,279,000 revenue passenger miles (RPMs), 1.1% down on January 2009’s figure of 41,718,000. Capacity, measured in available seat miles (ASMs), was down 9.2% to 81,412,000 from 89,685,000, producing a load factor increase of 4.2 percentage points to reach 50.7% compared with last January’s 46.5%.
The number of passengers carried totalled 170,849, a 4.9% decrease from the 179,662 carried in the same month last year.
Speakers at the Defence In Space Conference (DISC) 2025 highlighted the critical and evolving role of space in national security, defence and the global economy.
Both the US and Canada operate Cold War-era capabilities which cannot defeat today’s and tomorrow’s threats.
Air defence systems are continuing to appear top of countries’ shopping lists but broadly across different capabilities it is a sellers’ market, as demonstrated by backlogs and double-digit percentage point growth.
Mike Moran, Director of US Government Business at Amazon Project Kuiper Government Solutions, highlighted the evolution of space as a critical warfighting domain at the Defence in Space Conference (DISC) 2025, held this week in London.
In May this year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the government plans to position Germany as “Europe's strongest conventional army”. A new blueprint outlines how this is going to occur through massive investment.
Two of the concrete projects outlined in the readiness report, the European Air Shield and Space Shield, will aim to be launched by Q2 2026.