A Mechanical Harmony to NASA’s Webb Telescope Sunshield
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has a giant custom-built, kite-shaped sunshield driven by mechanics that will fold and unfold with a harmonious synchronicity 1 million miles from Earth. Like a car, many mechanical pieces in the Webb telescope’s sunshield will work together to open it from its stored folded position in the rocket that will carry it into space. According to car manufacturers, a single car can have about...
Assad blames US for Syria truce collapse (video)
President Bashar Assad rejected U.S. accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo or that his troops were preventing food from entering the city’s rebel-held eastern neighborhoods, blaming the U.S. for the collapse of a cease-fire many had hoped would bring relief to the war-ravaged country. In an interview with The Associated Press in Damascus, Assad also said deadly U.S. airstrikes on Syrian troops...
Militants on pickup with mortar use Aleppo aid convoy as cover, Russian MoD shows (VIDEO)
Militants driving a pickup with a mortar sought cover behind the UN-led aid convoy that was destroyed near Aleppo, the Russian military has said, releasing a video from one of its monitoring drones in Syria. The convoy with humanitarian aid heading to the embattled city of Aleppo can be seen being accompanied by a militant pickup truck, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov has said. The convoy with humanitarian aid heading to...
Russian Troops Work Out All Combat Operations to Repel Aggression at Kavkaz-2016
Russian troops worked out all types of combat operations needed to repel military aggression at the Kavkaz-2016 command and staff exercises, the Defense Ministry said today. OPUK RANGE (Crimea), (Sputnik) – Ground troops, aviation groups and naval fleets took part in the drills, joined by the S-400 Triumf and S-300 Favorit missile systems and the Pantsir-S mobile surface-to-air systems across the Southern Military District. ...
Here’s what Hillary Clinton told the traveling press corps aboard her campaign plane
If it happened more often, it probably wouldn’t have seemed like such a big deal. After months of not engaging with the traveling press that follows her across the country, Hillary Clinton ventured to the back of her new campaign plane three times on Monday — once just to say hello and twice to start and complete what resembled a news conference in the air (albeit in cramped quarters and with a television reporter sitting directly in...
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