#Sierra Nevada Corporation

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"Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser full-scale engineering test article has been readied for shipment to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California for phase two of the flight test campaign that will be conducted later in 2016 in coordination with Edwards Air Force Base. Dream Chaser program upgrades and initial hardware testing were completed at the Louisville, Colorado spacecraft assembly facility, and within the next several weeks, the same Dream Chaser vehicle that conducted the company’s flight test in 2013 will arrive at Armstrong. SNC and Armstrong will begin a series of pre-flight ground evaluations to verify and validate the vehicle’s system and subsystem designs. After successful completion of all ground testing, Dream Chaser will begin its phase two free-flight test. These activities are being conducted through the company’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capabilities Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program."

Date: July 28, 2016

NASA ID: KSC-20160728-PH_SNC01_0001

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So 26 February 2023, Grist re-publishes a piece originally from InvestigateWest, after InvestigateWest got their hands on some sensitive emails/documents revealing that the EPA rather than fairly supervising mining companies “they’re supposed to regulate” has instead assisted the companies “by attacking researchers and smearing peer-reviewed science.” (Surprising nobody; Montana is a resource extraction colony.) The piece is titled “Newly revealed records show how the EPA sided with polluters in a small Montana mining town.”

So I’m like “oh, is this gonna be about the natural gas boom near Sidney on the North Dakota border right alongside the Bakken oil fields, an operation so big and extensive that it artificially lights up the night sky over the open prairies of the northern Great Plains in a way that, from a satellite view, makes the least densely populated and remote corner of the contiguous United States glow brightly as if it were a massive city or as if the entire region were on fire? Or is this gonna be about coal mining in the remote southeastern corner of the state in the badlands and shortgrass prairie near Crow and Cheyenne reservations, where coal companies in the Yellowstone River watershed traditionally have extracted millions from near the Powder River and Black Hills?”

But nope, it’s about Butte.

“Small Montana mining town.”

This city is still among top 5 or top 10 most culturally and economically significant cities in the state. “Significant city” would be more apt than “small town.” But beyond that.

This is the place known as “Butte, America.”

Butte was the epicenter, the home base, the foundation of the Gilded Age copper boom that electrified the world and lit the streetlights and parlors of turn-of-the-century London and New York.

All that copper wiring, that’s from Butte, or from the industries that Butte’s barons established. This was the city where mining magnates ran the Anaconda Copper Mining Company which spear-headerd the pillaging of Latin America (referenced in the “open veins of Latin America”). Anaconda established the century-long tradition of Canadian and US mining companies destroying lives and landscapes in the Andes.

By 1899, Butte was one of the most significant US cities between the Mississippi River and the Sierra Nevada. This was the home of the Copper Kings.

The Anaconda company, in 1919, completed construction on a smelter smokestack 585 feet high, which remains the tallest surviving brick structure on the planet.

The wealth of Butte in the Edwardian era is unfathomable. They had a rollercoaster. In a single year, merely just those local mines along the edge of the city could produce $23 million ($700 million today). And that doesn’t include all of the wealth stolen from Latin America or other mines in the western US.

Montana was a state that pioneered the “corporations are people” stuff. Its very statehood itself, the christening of Montana, was a gift to the Copper Kings. Every important state office was practically purchased, owned by those mining barons.

This is also why Montana was the site of some of the earliest and most important labor struggles. Because the entire state of Montana was functionally a copper mining company town. Among notable events: the 1914 Butte labor riots, the 1917 brutal assassination of Frank Little, and the 1920 “Anaconda Road Massacre” in which company guards shot and killed 17 fleeing people.

This is why, depending on who you ask, Butte is either A Company Town or A Union Town.

Butte claims to be the home of the “largest population of Irish-Americans per capita of any US city.” This may or may not be true, but this Irish influence evident in the local popularity of pasties. In the Edwardian era, Butte was also the site of an important Chinatown neighborhood and a large Chinese community.

Locally, Butte is famous/infamous for being the site of the Berkeley Pit. Or “The Pit.” The remaining scar of an open-pit copper mine. It’s one mile long, half-mile wide, almost 2,000 feet deep, filled with 900 feet of acidic water laden with cadmium, sulfuric acid, and arsenic.

Just sitting there. In the city.

“Oh, well, of course, back in the Gilded Age, in the 1890s, US businesses got a little out of control, and boom-town communities weren’t really thinking long-term, and they also didn’t know all The Science, so they allowed for the creation of, like, giant toxic death-pits in their residential areas,”

Nope. They built that open-pit mine in 1955 and operated it until 1982.

Anyway, that’s kind of what the 2023 investigative report is about. There is a newer mine (copper and molybdenum) currently open and operating in the city, right next to The Pit.

And the current mine is owned by the richest man in the state of Montana, Dennis Washington. And the EPA is like, “Don’t worry. The mine in the city is fine, it’s all good.” Because that’s what US government land management agencies do: File due diligence paperwork for land-owners while others get poisoned.

The largest open pit copper mine (by extracted volume) on the planet, and the second-deepest open-pit mine of any kind on the planet, is at Chuquicamata in the Atacama region of Chile. This mine was the property of the Anaconda company.

The towering smokestack. The Pit on the edge of town. The gaping wound at Chuquicamata. The legacy of the Copper Kings lives on with the continued theft and poisoning of those in both Montana and the Andes.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

A new lawsuit asks Colombia to recognize that jaguars, military macaws and the nation’s tropical dry forest have legal rights to “life, health and integrity.” 

The case is the latest in the “rights of nature” movement, which aims to garner recognition from courts and legislatures that ecosystems and individual species have legal rights, similar to humans and nonhuman entities like corporations. 

According to the complaint, filed earlier this month by the nonprofit Amar Madre Tierra Foundation, mining operations have violated the rights of the tropical dry forest—Colombia’s most threatened ecosystem—as well as jaguars and macaws living in the vicinity of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a mountain range in Northern Colombia. 

The lawsuit, filed with a Colombian court in the Magdalena region, also asks the court to recognize the rights of sacred Indigenous spaces located throughout the tropical dry forest of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. 

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Colombia’s tropical dry forest was once the size of Maine. Only about eight percent is left. Known as the “forest of a thousand colors” for its dense greenery and flowering trees in the rainy season, the region is home to hundreds of rivers and streams that supply drinking water to more than a million people. Local communities also rely on it for cultural wealth and livelihoods. 

The complaint alleges that, since 2007, mining operations for construction materials’ have negatively impacted the forest and sacred spaces by contaminating rivers and streams, generating noise pollution, and releasing excessive amounts of dust into the atmosphere. Those mining impacts, combined with other development, have put the ecosystem into “a critical state of fragmentation and degradation,” the complaint says.

Habitat loss and degradation is the main driver of population decline among Colombian jaguars, critically endangered in the country, and military macaws, which are considered threatened. In addition to extractive activities like mining, the species face threats from agricultural and cattle ranching expansion, urbanization, fire, unsustainable tourism, hunting and poaching.

For jaguars, the loss of habitat shrinks the availability of food sources, driving the cats to feed off livestock populations and, in turn, making them a target of illegal killings by ranchers defending their herds. The complaint cites reports of at least three attempted killings of jaguar adults, one of which was a mother with two cubs that appeared to be looking for food near farms.

Military macaw populations have also dropped in Colombia due to the demand within and outside the country for their sale as pets. Macaws are one of the most trafficked birds in the illegal wildlife trade, which is estimated to be worth at least $7 billion annually. Jaguars are also highly sought out by traffickers, with high demand for their body parts coming from China for use in Eastern medicine practices. 

[wildmonkeysects]

War Profiteers

Remember President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower, who after green-lighting the overthrow of Iran’s democracy in 1953 at the behest of petrochemical corporations, had a change of heart and warned about the Military Industrial Complex? Here are the top 100 USA Military Industrial Complex “defense” contractors, all corporate welfare queens mooching off the public, who have blood on their hands in Palestine and elsewhere:

Academi

Action Target

ADT Corporation

Advanced Armament Corporation

AECOM

Aerospace Corporation

Aerovironment

AirScan

AM General

American Petroleum Institute

Argon ST

ARINC

Artis

Assett

Astronautics Corporation of America

Atec

Aurora Flight Sciences

Axon Enterprise

United Kingdom BAE Systems

BAE Systems Inc

Ball Corporation

Ball Aerospace & Technologies

Barrett Firearms Manufacturing

Battelle Memorial Institute

Bechtel

Berico Technologies

Boeing Defense, Space & Security

Booz Allen Hamilton

Boston Dynamics

Bravo Strategic

CACI

Carlyle Group

Carnegie Mellon University

Ceradyne

Cloudera

Colt Defense

The Columbia Group

Computer Sciences Corporation

Concurrent Technologies Corporation

CSRA (IT services company)

Cubic Corporation

Omega Training Group

Curtiss-Wright

DeciBel Research

Dillon Aero

Dine Development Corporation

Draper Laboratories

DRS Technologies

DynCorp

Edison Welding Institute

[Israei]l Elbit Systems

M7 Aerospace

Ensco

United Kingdom/Military contractor Ernst & Young

Evergreen International Aviation

Exxon

Fluor Corporation

Force Protection Inc

Foster-Miller

Foster Wheeler

Franklin Armoury

General Atomics

General Dynamics

Bath Iron Works

General Dynamics Electric Boat

Gulfstream

Vangent

General Electric Military Jet Engines Division

Halliburton Corporation

Health Net

Hewlett-Packard

Honeywell

Humana Inc.

Huntington Ingalls Industries

Hybricon Corporation

IBM

Insight Technology

Intelsat

International Resources Group

iRobot

ITT Exelis

Jacobs Engineering Group

JANUS Research Group

Johns Hopkins University

Kaman Aircraft

KBR

Kearfott Corporation

Knight's Armament Company

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions

L3Harris Technologies

Aerojet

Brashear

[France] Lafayette Praetorian Group

Lake Shore Systems

Leidos

EOTech

Lewis Machine & Tool Company

Lockheed Martin

Gyrocam Systems

Sikorsky

LRAD Corporation

ManTech International

Maxar Technologies

McQ

Microsoft

Mission Essential Personnel

Motorola

Natel Electronic Manufacturing Services

Navistar Defense

Nextel

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems

Northrop Grumman Ship Systems

Northrop Grumman Technical Services

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems

NOVA

Oceaneering International

Olin Corporation; also see John M. Olin and John M. Olin Foundation

Oshkosh Corporation

Para-Ordnance

Perot Systems

Picatinny Arsenal

Pinnacle Armor

Precision Castparts Corporation

Raytheon Technologies

Collins Aerospace

Rockwell Collins

Goodrich Corporation

Pratt & Whitney

Raytheon Intelligence & Space

Raytheon Missiles & Defense

Raytheon BBN

Remington Arms

Rock Island Arsenal

Roundhill Group

Ruger

Saab Sensis

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

SGIS

Sierra Nevada Corporation

Smith & Wesson

Smith Enterprise (SEI)

SPRATA

Springfield Armory

SRC Inc

SRI International

Stanley

Stewart & Stevenson

Swift Engineering

Tactical Air Support

Teledyne

Teledyne FLIR

Textron

AAI Corporation

Bell Helicopter Textron

Trijicon

TriWest Healthcare Alliance

Unisys

U.S. Ordnance

Verizon Communications

Vinnell Corporation

Westinghouse Electric Corporation

[carlos-in-glasses]

Tension Tuesday

Thank you for the tag @strandnreyes ❤️

Idea being to share a section of tension from a WIP or a published work.

I've opted for a portion of The Heart Behind the Shield, in which a conversation between Carlos and Gabriel must be had. Even if they'd rather not...

“Would you like beers or something?” Carlos says, which breaks the trance of the embrace.

TK didn’t see if Carlos hugged his dad – he thinks he didn’t, and that seems unfortunate.

Carlos wanders casually over to the fridge, removes three bottles of Sierra Nevada pale ale, and a blood orange San Pellegrino for TK. TK watches Carlos and thinks the casualness is an affectation. There’s an atmosphere that TK can’t figure out, any time the Reyes need to speak but don’t. Something like low pressure and heightened humidity, as if it’s about to rain indoors.

Carlos uses the first bottle opener he finds in the cutlery drawer. It’s a novelty one that TK stole from Owen’s house because he always liked it, with the Empire State Building embossed into the metal. He pops all the beer caps quickly, each of them emitting a satisfying hiss that fills the silence. TK watches Carlos snap the ring pull of his San Pellegrino and pour it into a glass. He selects pre-sliced slithers of orange and lemon from a Tupperware in the fridge, and adds some ice. It’s a very loving preparation, although unnecessary. TK swings his hands together, waiting, waiting. Carlos turns and presents his drink to him with a smile that he reads as corporate, like a polite barman in a swanky hotel. TK is so distracted by Carlos’ performance, he almost misses Andrea nudging at Gabriel.

Gabriel tries to brush her off until he can’t. “Okay!” he snappily whispers.

“Apresúrate,” she responds under her breath, chuckling.

Carlos slides two of the ales towards his parents, looking at them with a level of horror that TK finds funny. TK nibbles at his thumb to stop himself from smirking.

“What is it?” Carlos asks, his shoulders stiffening. He promised TK that he’d do better at speaking up, and it starts now, and he hates it.

Gabriel, clearly hating it too, somehow sends a glare at his wife that is also full of love. TK thinks he and Carlos will have that look perfected too, in thirty years’ time.

Gabriel takes a sip of beer and steels himself. “Son, I need to tell you that I’m not sorry–”

“Great. Thanks, Dad,” Carlos interjects with a sulky sarcasm that knocks TK back a little. He’d noticed it five days ago too. From the moment he and Gabriel rescued Carlos, and Carlos started to tune into their presence, he regressed around his dad, becoming pouty and teenaged.

“Maybe hold the attitude until I finish,” Gabriel says, giving as good as he gets.

TK wishes he could have been a fly on the wall in the Reyes house when Carlos was actually a teenager. He bets a lot of conversations around the dinner table played out interestingly.

Read more on Ao3 (this is from Chapter 8, Mijo)

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Petition and map from John Muir and other founders of Sierra Club protesting a bill to reduce the size of Yosemite National Park, 1/2/1893. 

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives

Series: Petitions and Memorials

Transcription:

To the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Dear Sir, Whereas at a meeting of the Sierra Club of Saturday, November 5th 1892, said club being a corporation formed for the purposes, to with: "To explore, enjoy and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning them; to enlist the support and co-operations of the people and the government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains" a resolution was introduced and unanimously adopted directing the Board of Directors to prepare a memorial to Congress against Bill H. R 5764 introduced by Mr. Carminetti and to use every effort to defeat it, Therefore The Board of Directors of the Sierra Club in accordance with the above resolutions do respectfully and emphatically protest against the diminution of the Yosemite National Park situated in California as contemplated in Bill H. R. 5764 introduced by Mr. Carminetti and referred by the House of Representatives to your honorable Committee As shown in the accompanying map all

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the territory outside of the blue lines is to be taken out of the Yosemite National Park Reservation, which would First: endanger in J.HS., R25E and R26E + J.3S, R25E the headwaters of the San Joaquin River, a river on whose water the irrigation of the whole San Joaquin Valley is dependent. Secondly: in J1S, J2S.R19E+ J1S, J2S.R20E it will denude the watersheds between the branches of the Tuolumne River and Merced River of the most valuable timber, destroy forests which in their magnific- ent growth from and attraction to visitors not only from the State of California, but from all over the United States and from abroad and although provision is made in paid bill to reserve a trail one mile square containing the Tuolumne Big Tree Grove and also a similar trail about the Merced Grove the destruction of the surrounding forest will necessarily cause a great danger through forest fires to these two groves of Sequoia gigantea, which ought to be and have heretofore bee protected by the United States Government with singular interest Thirdly: The taking of the Reservation of J2N+ J1N R19E will hand over to private ownership most valuable reservoir sites which ought to be jealously guarded for the benefit of the state at large Fourthly: The exemption of 1/2 J2N.R20E, of J2N R21E, J2N + 1/2 J1NR22E of J2N+ 1/2 J1N.R23E of J2N +3/4 J1NR.24E and of J1S R25E will endanger the watershed of the

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tributaries of the Tuolumne River as it passes through the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River + finally through Hetch Hetchy Valley, a valley which in grandeur + uniqueness is in many respects the peer of Yosemite and will in future form one of the principal attractions of the Sierra Nevada of California If the Territory of the Yosemite National Park should be reduced in accordance with the bill H.R 5764, the dangers to guard against which the Park was orig- inally set aside, would again arise, the herds of sheep which now for two seasons have successfully been kept out of the reservation would denude the watersheds of their vegetation, the forest fires following in the wake of the herds would destroy the magnificent forests and threaten the reservation itself and the timber of price- less value of the speculator. The Directors of the Sierra Club respectfully point out that Senate Bill No 3235 proposed by Mr. Paddock will meet any objections in the interest of mining or farming industries, if there be any, to the continuance of the present limits of the Yosemite National Park Reservation. John Muir J.H. Senger, President Sierra Club Secretary Sierra Club Warren Olney First Vice - President Sierra Club San Francisco, Jan 2nd 1893

[page 4 image description] Map of Yosemite, labeled “MAP OF THE YO SEMITE NATIONAL PARK”. Part of the map is outlined in blue. 

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Boeing has exited, leaving Sierra Nevada Corporation as the sole bidder for #USAF's $8 billion program to replace the E-4B "Doomsday plane." The ageing E-4Bs are becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to maintain and are expected to be retired by early 2030s. #avgeeks

@RealAirPower1 via X

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Deeds That Beckon

Unitarian Universalism has a number of heritage stories of which we can be proud, some stories we should know even though they do not inspire pride, and a lot of stories that we need to reconsider in the context of our anti-racist and and anti-oppressive learning. May we respond to our history by seeking transformation, finding hope, and choosing the foundations we need for the future. Rev. Lyn Cox updated and delivered this sermon to The Unitarian Society in East Brunswick on October 15, 2023.

As Unitarian Universalists, we need stories that help us, on an emotional and metaphorical level, understand who we are and how to live in the world. Our history provides those myths. Stories about admirable Unitarian Universalists are grown from seeds of historical accuracy, yet they are family stories. When we study our prophetic ancestors and take up the path of service in our own generation, we are becoming part of that mythic story. 

The seminary I attended invited us into one such story. My school was named after Thomas Starr King, a minister who served both Universalist and Unitarian congregations in the 1840s through the 1860s. He got a lot done. Thomas Starr King was about five feet tall. One of his famous quotes is, “though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I am mad I weigh a ton.”

As a nature writer, he persuaded people of the importance of preserving places like the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Yosemite Valley in the West. His accounts were published in the Boston Evening Transcript. He has two mountains named after him, one in New Hampshire and one in California’s Sierra Nevada. 

He helped the Unitarian church in San Francisco grow into their mission as a vital congregation involved in the life of the city. Starr King was a vocal abolitionist. When the Civil War broke out, he traveled up and down California, speaking to everyone from miners to legislators about joining the Union instead of the Confederacy or trying to become a separate country. 

When I lived in California and walked the hills of San Francisco, sometimes I would think, “If Thomas Starr King could hike up the mountains, I can, too.”  Visiting Yosemite, I could see his point about the landscape being the scenic equivalent of Beethoven’s ninth symphony. Acts of service are like moveable temples, places where we can go to greet the spirits of our beloved ancestors, both blood ancestors and chosen ancestors.

Individualism and White Supremacy Culture

The story of Thomas Starr King can function as a UU religious story, bringing connection and inspiration, and a way to enter the story through acts of service. Even so, it’s worthwhile to go back and take another look at the stories that are important to us through the lens of white supremacy culture. 

White supremacy culture is a system of oppression that uses everything from social norms to cultural narratives to corporate policy to federal law to maintain the privilege of one group over all other groups. White supremacy functions even in the absence of people who self-identify as racists. By design, the power and operating rules of white supremacy are unnoticed by most of the people who benefit from it. 

Even when we have a story about someone like Thomas Starr King, who dedicated his life to causes like ecological preservation and abolition of slavery, we have to ask ourselves about what ways the form of the story we are telling upholds white supremacy culture. Sometimes oppression is baked in from the beginning, with our admired ancestors working against justice in certain facets while making progress in other facets. Sometimes the white supremacy culture is in our retelling, in the details we emphasize or the details we forget. 

Tema Okun has been writing since 1999 about the characteristics of white supremacy culture. She writes about white culture as an insider, and self-identifies as a white person with Jewish ancestry from an upper class background. Okun credits several teachers and learning experiences, including the Challenging White Supremacy Workshop from The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. Okun focuses on the unspoken norms that maintain the status quo, even in organizations devoted to justice. The characteristics aren’t about individual people or specific groups of people, they are about a cultural and economic system that harms people and is good at perpetuating itself. She writes, “white supremacy culture trains us all to internalize attitudes and behaviors that do not serve any of us.” There is a lot to unpack in her writing, so I’d like to focus on one characteristic now and one a little later in the sermon. 

One of the characteristics of white supremacy culture that Okun describes is individualism. Organizations that are under the influence of individualism have difficulties with working in teams. Individuals believe they are responsible for solving the problems of the organization alone. There is an emphasis on individual recognition and credit, leading to isolation and competition. Few resources are devoted to developing skills in how to cooperate. 

The way we UU’s typically tell the story of Thomas Starr King is steeped in individualism. He did do important things, but a lot of his impact was through organizing and teamwork, and those are the strategies that are hard to replicate based on the mythology that we carry on in his memory. He didn’t just go around preaching on street corners, he traveled to speak with and work with coherent groups of people from different social classes and walks of life. He made a difference because of the way he was able to get outside his comfort zone and work with teams, not by his preaching skills alone. 

The way history is taught and discussed in general is susceptible to this pitfall, and the way we talk about Unitarian Universalist history in particular is vulnerable to individualism. Sometimes our quick introductions focus on famous Unitarian Universalists, trying to make our religious movement more familiar by reminding people of its famous adherents. 

One of the most famous UU’s is Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote an essay called “Self-Reliance” in 1841. In his memory, I worry that Unitarian Universalism has taken individualism to a place that limits our mutual accountability and our responsibilities to the most vulnerable among us. In his defense, Emerson’s 19th-century version of the concept of self-reliance is not the same as how most people think of the concept in the 21st century. He shares these characteristics with his friend Henry David Thoreau, who I mentioned earlier in the Time for All Ages story. 

I appreciate Emerson’s healthy skepticism toward the way things have always been done. Emerson’s suggestion that sometimes social expectations are not the most important value is important for our anti-racism work, because you have to push back on politeness at least a little bit if you are challenging white supremacy. And. It is important not to let our admiration for Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” prevent us from being in covenant with each other, being loving in our truth-telling, and opening ourselves up to learning new ways of cooperation.    

Contrast the image of Emerson as a poet who stands apart, an individualist hero, with what we know about another writer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Harper was born into a family of free Black educators in Baltimore in 1825. She joined the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia in 1870, and also maintained her membership in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Like Emerson, Harper wrote poems, essays, and lectures. She also wrote short stories and novels. Like Emerson, she wrote about personal development and used her writing to promote social causes.

Unlike Emerson, Harper also wrote about responsibility to the community, and she practiced it in concrete ways. In her 1855 article, “A Factor in Human Progress,” she spoke of “the science of a true life of joy and trust in God, of God-like forgiveness and divine self-surrender.” In other words, she was more clear about working together with entities outside of her own mind.

Harper worked in her community feeding the poor and mentoring youth. She was part of several groups who moved toward progress together, for women’s suffrage and for Black suffrage, against lynching, for peace. We learn from her legacy that a writer can be a literary voice and also be a leader who encourages cooperation, solidarity, and true relationship with the people who are most impacted by oppression. 

Individual effort has its good points, yet there is more to Unitarian Universalist history and more to our current character and potential than we can access through that doorway alone. Hyper-individualism maintains white supremacy culture when it prevents us from getting outside ourselves and building relationships with interfaith partner and community partner organizations. Hyper-individualism privileges the lone dissenter to the point where it is hard to put personal preferences aside so that congregations can work one one thing together. Hyper-individualism leads us to celebrate only the heroic faces of social justice, forgetting to gather in those who are called to work behind the scenes. There is a place in this congregation, this faith, and in the movement for people with many different talents and ways of being. As we study the past, may we celebrate the groups and movements as well as the superstars, knowing that progress is a team effort.

In addition to individualism, another characteristic of white supremacy culture we can explore in our UU history is paternalism. Paternalism is a cultural norm that shows up, as Okun writes, when “those holding power control decision-making and define things [such as] standards, perfection, [and the] one right way.” She goes on to name that “those holding power often don’t think it is important or necessary to understand the viewpoint or experience of those for whom they are making decisions, often labeling those for whom they are making decisions as unqualified intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, or physically.” 

From the perspective of the person who thinks they are doing a good deed, paternalism can feel like compassion, yet often paternalism gets in the way of true progress. Impact is more important than intention. Among other suggestions, Okun advises, “when working with communities from a different culture than yours or your organization, be clear that you have some learning to do about the communities’ ways of doing; assume that you or your organization can't possibly know what’s best for a community in isolation from meaningful relationships with that community.” 

If we want a positive example of grounded leadership in our UU history, consider Fannie Barrier Williams. She was an organizer, lecturer, journalist, artist, and musician. She was born in 1855 to one of the few Black families in Brockport, New York. She is most famous for her work in Chicago, where she belonged to All Souls Unitarian Church. Williams made strides in integration through the establishment of the Provident Hospital, joining the Chicago Woman’s Club, and serving on the Board of the Chicago Public Library. She also worked within the African American community. She helped start the National Association of Colored Women, which, through their 200 local clubs, provided child care centers, classes, employment bureaus, and savings banks. 

The compassion that gets mixed up with paternalism might be a good impulse that gets misdirected. So let’s start with what’s good. Being true to compassion means meeting challenges and growing from them, allowing our minds and hearts to be transformed. 

Dorothea Dix found that out when she entered the East Cambridge Jail as a teacher in 1841. Dix was horrified by what she saw. The jail was unheated. All of the residents were housed together: people who had been convicted of crimes, people with mental illness, children with developmental disabilities, all mixed together in unfurnished, unsanitary quarters. The only thing the residents had in common was that society had given up on them.

Using her contacts in Boston, Dix got a court order for heat and other improvements at the jail. She then set about a systemic investigation of jails and almshouses in Massachusetts, making personal visits to document conditions. She said, “what I assert in fact, I must see for myself.”  She read about mental illness and treatment and interviewed physicians. She gave her data to a politically connected friend who presented her findings to the Massachusetts legislature. After some attempts at denial and misdirection, funding came through to modernize the State Mental Hospital at Worcester. Dix followed the same pattern in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Hospitals sprung up in her wake. 

OK, so all of that is great; however, in our continuing efforts at health care reform and mental health care and accessibility, we would need to do things differently today. Dorothea Dix did try to understand the experience of the people who were most impacted by incarceration, but she did not hold that all people have equal inherent worth. 

For instance, she did not think that slavery was wrong. [Dix’s failure to support abolition is mentioned in an article in Psychiatric News. On this point, Wikipedia cites Holland, Mary G. (2002). Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville: Edinborough Press. p. 77.] Dix felt that mental illness for educated whites was a separate issue from the conditions of non-whites. [Jackson, Vanessa (2007). "Separate and Unequal: The Legacy of Racially Segregated Psychiatric Hospitals"]. Born to a Catholic family, Dix harbored prejudice against Catholics later in life, and this got in her way when she served as the Superintendent of Army Nurses during the Civil War. [Wikipedia cites Barbra Mann Wall, "Called to a Mission of Charity: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the Civil War, Nursing History Review (1998) Vol. 6, p85-113; and also Maher, Mary Denis. To Bind Up the Wounds, LSU Press, 1999, p. 128 ISBN 9780807124390.]

Compassion is good. Deciding that you and people like you have to take leadership in compassionate change because you are better than the people you want to help is problematic. 

Today, trying to undo the legacy of paternalism, we are called to support the leadership and voices of the people who are most impacted. We can work with coalitions led by people who are formerly incarcerated and their families. We can support organizations like ADAPT, led by people with disabilities; the organization is even now fighting for the right of people with disabilities to live in the community rather than in institutions. Books like Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole by Julia Watts Belser, recently published by Beacon Press, can give us theological grounding and encouragement for disability justice The legacy of paternalism gives a heroic glow to our ancestors who struggled for others, but it is time for us to learn new skills of struggling alongside neighboring communities, learning how to accept the leadership of people who know the most about the issues they are facing. 

The path of service spurs us to many kinds of transformation. We meet challenges and build skills we didn’t have before. We gain awareness of a timeless spiritual truth, which is our oneness. Reflecting on history and our own experience, taking in the lessons of dismantling individualism and paternalism, the transformation that compassion brings becomes a spiritual as well as an ethical reality.

Conclusion

Collective kindness is a tradition worth growing. Role models from UU history and from our own congregation help us to place ourselves on a path with a past, yet a path where we have a choice going into the future. The practice of compassion is a tradition we receive, nurture, and share with the next generation. May we find our place in the mythic story of UUism. May we be transformed. May we come to new understandings of our past and our future. So be it. Blessed be. Amen. 

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

To hell with the New York Times's top 25 commercial/luxurious travel experiences. You can have your own. Here's some of mine, and reflecting on them makes me feel quite replete and not in need of any gourmet well-beaten trails. I hope you have yours.

--travel the pilgrimage trail of St. Jacques de Compostelle from Paris to the Spanish border as a teenage art historian, with the great Mme Francoise Weinman interpreting, 1978. 

 --bathe in a bathtub on a hillside on Western Shoshone land above matriarchs and federal challengers Mary and Carry Dann's ranch in eastern Nevada while listening to Lucinda Williams for the first time (music courtesy of Lauri Di, who then gave me the homemade cassette), 1991. 

--raft trip on assignment for Sierra Magazine, 1995, in a roadless wilderness the size of Portugal in NE British Columbia, where the whole community of wildlife was living its many lives largely undisturbed.

--Dance all night in the streets of Paris, Fete de la Musique, circa 1998, be serenaded by Timothy O'Toole's brother with Marianne Faithful's "Ballad of Lucy Jordan" in parting. (Research for Wanderlust was the official reason to be there.)

--Seattle Nov. 30-Dec. 1, when the protest in the streets galvanized the poor countries to resist the World Trade Organization's bullying on behalf of the rich corporations and countries and the fate of the world took a left turn. "When hope and history rhyme." Thank you David Solnit, who had a lot to do with it. 

--Hike with Lucy Lippard to the remote valley whose entrance is framed by two great natural stone slabs on each of which a life-sized cornstalk petroglyph appears; take Barry Lopez to see the life-size bear petroglyph nearby and the giant zig-zag snake petroglyphs, get drenched in a monsoon rain together, New Mexico circa 1999-2001 or so

--Multiple times participating in the Good Friday pilgrimage to Chimayo, NM, circa 1998-2010, witnessing the landscape, the devotion and dedication, the generosity, and the low-rider Cadillac of the stations of the cross. 

--find the exact places Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston stood to make their iconic pictures of Yosemite with Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe (in what became our book Yosemite in Time), and camp out in the supremely serene jeffrey pine forest south of Mono Lake while working on the project, 2001-4

--repeat visits to New Orleans to first understand the terrible things of Hurricane Katrina and then fall in love with the wonderful culture and dance in various second lines, etc., 2006 onward....

--Zapatista Women's Encuentro, late Dec.-January 1, Chiapas, Mexico, with Marina Sitrin and Sam Sitrin

--Iceland, summer of 2008 (partly melancholy, but studded with epiphanies): "I traveled a little, and on the south coast of Iceland had one magnificent midsummer day that began with a long walk on a path edged with tiny flowers past the largest glacier in Europe, went on to a bay in which the glacier was calving icebergs that were vivid blue in a blue inlet of the sea, and then traversed a long strand of wet sand that reflected the white clouds and blue sky so that heaven and earth were indistinguishable, and the clouds overhead seemed to be almost close enough to touch and those near the horizon seemed to be very near infinity. It was as close to a vision of paradise as I’ve been granted with my eyes open. After that I saw another bay full of hundreds of swans and a steep valley through which dozens of thin waterfalls trickled and poured from the heights. That day ended at a robin’s nest Klara showed me in the low willows in the quiet light at midnight, five small mottled eggs like turquoise stones." 

--first visit to David Rumsey's map collection, San Francisco, with David's visionary insight into cartography....-

-two weeks aboard a Swedish vessel circumambulating Svalbard in the high Arctic, 2011

--Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, raft trip, summer solstice, 2014 (also working as a journalist), but also thank you Michael Brune and Dan Ritzman https://www.theguardian.com/.../alaska-wildlife-sanctuary...

--Mt Burdell in green winter splendor, over so many years...

--wake up at Standing Rock to see thousand of joyful people celebrating their determination and solidarity on the great green prairie, 2016 (I went there to report for the Guardian, all too briefly)

--Traveling with Dolpo Tulku rimpoche through Dolpo, the Tibetan plateau/Buddhist land in which he is the spiritual leader, fall 2017, with Roshi Joan Halifax and various others, and doing another version of that route in 2015 that repeats Peter Matthiesson's in The Snow Leopard, including being welcomed into Shey Gompo, and seeing people engaged in daily life on almost medieval terms: plowing with yaks, threshing and reaping and winnowing by hand, traveling on foot or by beast, weaving on wooden looms, tending livestock, crossing high passes up to 17,600' high, spending a month on foot (and occasionally horse)....

--the enchanting walk from the Baldock train station to the cottage Orwell lived in 1936-1940s, through wheat fields full of flints formed undersea and rural rights of way, crossing the ancient Icknield Way (returning to where I first met those roses he planted, if they're his, on Nov. 2, 2017), 2019, walking it again this summer with Rob Macfarlane, 2022

--So many mornings of glorious light at Ocean Beach, because like all of you I also live in the destination.

--camping with my great-nieces who make everything new and exciting again. p.s. Just a reminder: I have had adventures, but my everyday life is staying home quietly turning words around and trying to make meaning with them.

[Rebecca Solnit ]

[hangmanbrainrot]

Every time I see your #sierra answers 💌 tag in my feed, my brain immediately thinks "Nevada", so I'd say "Nevada" whether it's the mountain range or the brewing company 😊

I'm also like 89% Sierra Nevada is an aerospace engineering corporation, so that would also track

I was also named for the Sierra Nevada mountains, so that's honestly so cute and perfect! 🥺

tell me what you think my callsign would be.

[legislacionindigenaco]

Sentencia SU 121 de 2022

DERECHO A LA PARTICIPACIÓN EFECTIVA DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS DE LA SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA-Vulneración por afectación del territorio ancestral Línea Negra

• Ir a Sentencia y antecedentes Enlace externo

VI. DECISIÓN

En mérito de lo expuesto, la Sala Plena de la Corte Constitucional, administrando justicia en nombre del pueblo y por mandato de la Constitución

RESUELVE

PRIMERO.- LEVANTAR la suspensión de términos decretada en este proceso mediante Auto de 21 de agosto de 2015.

SEGUNDO.- REVOCAR, por las razones expuestas en esta providencia, la sentencia del 16 abril de 2015, proferida por la Corte Suprema de Justicia, Sala de Casación Penal, la cual confirmó la sentencia del 17 de febrero de 2015 emitida por el Tribunal Superior del Distrito Judicial de Mocoa, Sala Única de Decisión, que negó la acción de tutela de la referencia. En su lugar, CONCEDER el amparo de los derechos fundamentales a la consulta previa y al ambiente sano de la comunidad indígena Awá La Cabaña, localizada en el Municipio de Puerto Asís, Departamento del Putumayo, dentro de la acción de tutela incoada por el Gobernador del Cabildo Indígena Awá La Cabaña, Juvencio Nastacuas Pai contra el Ministerio del Interior, la Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales -ANLA-, y el Consorcio Colombia Energy, integrado por las empresas VETRA E&P Colombia S.A.S, Petrotesting Colombia S.A y Southeast Investment Corporation, con operación petrolera en los campos Quinde, Cohembí y Quillacinga, cuya titularidad corresponde a ECOPETROL S.A.

TERCERO.- ORDENAR al Ministerio del Interior, a la Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales –ANLA– y a la Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Sur de la Amazonía – CORPOAMAZONÍA -, o quien haga sus veces, para que, dentro de los tres (3) meses siguientes a la notificación de esta providencia, convoque a la comunidad indígena Awá La Cabaña, para adelantar un proceso de consulta, el cual tendrá dos objetivos generales y transversales. El primero consistirá en identificar los impactos ambientales, espirituales, culturales y sociales que la explotación petrolera en los Campos Quinde, Cohembí y Quillacinga haya generado sobre la comunidad indígena Awá “La Cabaña”. El segundo consistirá en proponer e implementar las medidas requeridas para prevenir, mitigar, corregir, recuperar o restaurar los efectos de esa actividad extractiva. La consulta se surtirá entre la comunidad Awá “La Cabaña”, el Consorcio Colombia Energy, la Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Sur de la Amazonia -CORPOAMAZONÍA- y la Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales –ANLA–, bajo la dirección del Ministerio del Interior. El proceso consultivo ordenado deberá adelantarse en un plazo máximo de seis (6) meses, contado a partir de su convocatoria, término que podrá ser prorrogado por una sola vez por otro lapso igual. A su vez, se deberán respetar los principios que rigen la consulta previa, en los términos indicados en los fundamentos de esta providencia. El acompañamiento del proceso de consulta estará a cargo de la Defensoría del Pueblo y la Procuraduría General de la Nación.

Las medidas específicas que se adopten en beneficio de la comunidad accionante para prevenir, recomponer, mitigar, recuperar o restaurar las afectaciones deberán atender el criterio de justicia ambiental y contener, como mínimo, los parámetros que se enuncian a continuación: (i) fechas y plazos precisos que permitan hacer un seguimiento de las medidas de prevención, recomposición, mitigación, recuperación o restauración a implementar; (ii) prever mecanismos de control y evaluación, que faciliten el monitoreo sobre el avance de las alternativas y sus grados de cumplimiento ante el Tribunal Superior del Distrito Judicial de Mocoa; y (iii) tener por objeto promover el derecho de la comunidad Awá La Cabaña a acceder y disponer de un ecosistema y de recursos naturales que permitan su subsistencia.

CUARTO.- En caso de que el proceso de consulta no conduzca ni concluya en un acuerdo la ANLA y CORPOAMAZONÍA, según sus competencias legales, podrán adoptar las decisiones pertinentes debidamente motivadas, las cuales deben ser razonables y proporcionadas, de conformidad con los criterios señalados en la parte motiva de esta sentencia, en especial en el fundamento 15.2. En ese evento el Tribunal Superior del Distrito Judicial de Mocoa debidamente informado remitirá el proceso a la Corte Constitucional, la cual reasumirá competencia para asegurar la protección efectiva de los derechos tutelados de la comunidad Awá La Cabaña, para lo cual impartirá las órdenes pertinentes, que podrían incluir la suspensión de la operación petrolera en los campos Quinde, Cohembí y Quillacinga.

QUINTO.- ORDENAR a la Agencia Nacional de Licencias Ambientales –ANLA– que, en caso de que sea necesario, en el término de diez (10) días siguientes a la protocolización de los acuerdos derivados del trámite de la consulta con la comunidad accionante, modifique el plan de manejo ambiental.

SEXTO.- EXHORTAR al Gobierno Nacional y al Congreso de la República para que, con base en los lineamientos expuestos en esta sentencia: adopten las medidas pertinentes para regular lo relacionado con los certificados de presencia y afectación de comunidades étnicas, que hagan efectivo el derecho a la consulta previa, en los términos del Convenio 169 de la OIT; así mismo se realicen los ajustes para que la institución encargada de otorgar los certificados de presencia y afectación de comunidades étnicas cuente con autonomía e independencia administrativa y financiera, necesarias para ejercer adecuadamente su función.

SÉPTIMO.- ORDENAR al Ministerio del Interior que, en uso de sus facultades legales y en cumplimiento de las funciones que le atribuye el artículo 5° de la Ley 199 de 1995, disponga los trámites necesarios para traducir, en un término no mayor a un (1) mes, posterior a la notificación de esta sentencia, la síntesis y la parte resolutiva de este pronunciamiento en la lengua awá-pit del pueblo indígena Awá La Cabaña que habita en el municipio de Puerto Asís, Putumayo. También deberá proceder a dar lectura de la síntesis y parte resolutiva del fallo en un acto público en el cual participe la comunidad y las autoridades correspondientes del Cabildo Indígena Awá La Cabaña.

OCTAVO.- SOLICITAR a la Defensoría del Pueblo y a la Procuraduría General de la Nación vigilar, apoyar y acompañar el pleno cumplimiento de lo determinado en el presente fallo, con el fin de garantizar la efectividad de los derechos aquí protegidos, así como garantizar la participación y la consulta de la comunidad Awá “La Cabaña”. En desarrollo de esa labor, las autoridades referidas deberán remitir cada cuatro (4) meses un informe sobre el cumplimiento de la presente decisión al Tribunal Superior del Distrito Judicial de Mocoa (Putumayo), juez de primera instancia de este proceso.

Cópiese, notifíquese, comuníquese, insértese en la Gaceta de la Corte Constitucional y cúmplase.

[radioshiga]

China congela bens de 9 empresas dos EUA por venda a Taiwan

Pequim, China, 19 de setembro de 2024 – Agência de Notícias Xinhua – O governo chinês anunciou nesta quarta-feira (18) o congelamento dos bens de nove empresas americanas ligadas ao setor militar em resposta à assistência militar dos Estados Unidos a Taiwan. A medida, que entrou em vigor imediatamente, afeta a Sierra Nevada Corporation, especializada em tecnologias de aeronaves e drones, além de…

[nmsc-market-pulse]

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 $𝟐𝟔 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟎, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝟏𝟒% 𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐑

𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞: https://www.nextmsc.com/commercial-rockets-market/request-sample

According to Next Move Strategy Consulting, the worldwide 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 size is predicted to reach $𝟐𝟔 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 by 2030 with a 𝟏𝟒% 𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐑. As the global space industry expands, commercial rocket companies are playing a pivotal role in driving accessibility and affordability for a wide range of space-based applications.

𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭:

1. 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙢: The prospect of space tourism is becoming a reality, with several companies actively developing rockets capable of carrying passengers to suborbital and orbital destinations. This emerging sector is attracting significant investment and public interest.

2. 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: Competition among commercial rocket providers is intensifying, leading to accelerated innovation and cost efficiencies. Companies are vying to capture market share by offering reliable launch services tailored to diverse customer needs.

3. 𝙀𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮: There is a growing emphasis on reducing the environmental footprint of rocket launches through advancements in propulsion technology and sustainable fuel alternatives. These efforts are aligning with global initiatives aimed at minimizing the impact of space activities on Earth’s environment.

𝙉𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙨 𝙖 𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙩, attributed to the innovations and developments by major space companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬

Boeing

Virgin Galactic

Sierra Nevada Corporation

Northrop Grumman

Skyroot Aerospace

National Remote Sensing Centre, a part of Indian Space Research Organisation

IN-SPACe

The commercial rockets market is poised for continued expansion as governments, private enterprises, and academic institutions collaborate to explore new frontiers in space. Investment in research and development, coupled with strategic partnerships, is expected to drive further growth and shape the future of commercial space transportation.

[futuristicpaintercat]

Small Satellite Market Estimated to Witness High Growth Owing to Rising Demand for Earth Observation Services

Small satellites are tiny satellites having a mass ranging from 1 to 300 kg. These satellites are more cost-effective as compared to conventional large satellites. Small satellites find applications in areas such as earth observation, communication services, space research, weather forecasting, and defense. The advantages of small satellites are low manufacturing and launch costs, reduced development schedule, and ability to launch more frequent missions. The global small satellite market is estimated to be valued at US$ 5220.74 Mn in 2024 and is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 15% over the forecast period 2024 To 2031. Key Takeaways Key players operating in the small satellite market are Harris Corporation Airbus Defense and Space, Boeing, Geooptics Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, Millennium Space Systems Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, OHB AG, OneWeb Ltd, Planet Labs Inc., Sierra Nevada Corporation, Singapore Technologies Engineering Limited, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Space X), Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., and Thales Alenia Space.

key players such as Harris Corporation, Boeing, Lockheed Martin Corporation and Space X dominating the small satellite market with innovative constellation plans and satellite manufacturing capabilities. The key opportunities in the small satellite market include increased demand for earth observation services, connectivity services, and technology miniaturization. Rising investment in space technologies by private companies and governments is fueling the growth of small satellites globally. The global expansion of the small satellite market is driven by increasing satellite launches from new spaceports across the world. Countries such as Japan, India, and China are increasingly investing in small satellite constellations for commercial and defense applications. Market drivers The Global Small Satellite Market Demand is driven by the rising demand for earth observation services from sectors such as agriculture, energy, and climate monitoring. Small satellites equipped with high-resolution cameras and sensors are increasingly being used for monitoring crops, spotting oil spills, disaster management, and tracking climate change patterns globally. This is a major factor fueling the adoption of small satellites. Get more insights on Small Satellite Market

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[nawapon17]

Sierra Nevada to Restore Uzbekistan’s Pilatus Cargo Aircraft for $64M

[aresdifesa]

Nuovi velivoli da sorveglianza per la Guardia di Frontiera Finlandese Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) è stata selezionata dalla Guardia di Frontiera Finlandese come fornitore dei sostituti dei Dornier Do228 che stanno giungendo a fine vita tecnica. L’appalto aggiudicato comprende due velivoli Bombardier Challenger 650 che la Sierra Nevada Corporation modificherà per soddisfare le esigenze operative della Guardia di Frontiera Finlandese e l’entrata in servizio della coppia di nuovi velivoli è prevista nel biennio 2026-2027. La soluzione selezionata aumenterà in modo significativo la capacità della Guardia di Frontiera di Helsinki di eseguire missioni di sicurezza marittima e di controllo e sorveglianza della frontiera terrestre grazie alle suite elettroniche ed elettro-ottiche (EO/IR)