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.
Western Australia-based Skywest Airlines has announced its network operating statistics for the month of February 2010.
Skywest’s regular passenger transport (RPT) traffic, measured by revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), increased by 30.32% to 18,175,000 from February 2009’s 13,946,000. Capacity, in available seat kilometres (ASKs) increased by 30.12% over the same period of the previous year to 36,786,000 from 28,271,000.
RPT passengers carried increased by 14.31% to a rounded figure of 25,000 compared with 22,000 (rounded) last February. The load factor rose slightly – by 0.08% – to 49.41% from 49.33% in February 2009.
RPT passenger data excludes charter passengers.
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.
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