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.
easyJet has announced passenger and load factor data for its services in January 2010.
Passengers carried totalled 3,142,629, a 10.7% increase on the 2,839,617 carried in January 2009. The load factors for the respective months were 79.3% and 75.7%, a 3.6 pp increase year-on-year.
During the rolling 12 month period ending January 2010, the airline carried 46,380,471 passengers, a 3.8% increase on the 44,661,510 in the 12 month period ending 31 January 2009. The load factors for the respective periods were 86.2% and 84.9%.
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.