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22 May 19. Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, has been awarded a contract by the Administrator of the Space Enterprise Consortium, under the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles XVI program, to deliver and test the first-ever Link 16-capable LEO spacecraft. Leveraging the Company’s leadership in satellite innovation and military communications, the Viasat-designed spacecraft is intended to enhance warfighters’ situational awareness by extending the range of Link 16 networks – using a constellation of satellites to provide greater access to Link 16 capabilities in contested or congested environments.
Under the XVI program, Viasat will become the first company to prototype and test space-based Link 16 capabilities compatible with fielded U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Link 16-enabled platforms, including ground vehicles, aircraft, maritime vessels, and dismounted users. The XVI program is a key step towards making a global Link 16-enabled LEO satellite constellation, transforming Link16 from a Line-of-Sight (LOS) to a Beyond Line-of-Sight (BLOS) network, providing U.S. and allied military forces with ubiquitous, secure, high-speed and resilient communications necessary to improve the common operating picture across the global battlespace.
“The XVI award highlights Viasat technology leadership in Link 16 and space-borne tactical communications,” said Ken Peterman, president, Government Systems, Viasat. “Our innovative spacecraft design and development coupled with expertise in next-generation tactical datalinks and cybersecurity places Viasat in a unique position to address the Department of Defense’s urgent need for a fast-to-market, cost-effective, space-based Link 16 solution to maintain a technological edge in contested environments.”
Viasat’s Link 16-capable LEO satellite is designed to fit the Viasat Hybrid Adaptive Network (HAN) satellite communications (SATCOM) concept. The HAN architecture will allow users to operate across commercial and government SATCOM networks and multiple orbital regimes, creating an end-to-end multi-layered solution resilient to network congestion, intentional and unintentional interference and cyber threats – even in highly-contested environments. The Link 16-capable LEO satellite will allow Link 16 networks to leverage the resilient, global connectivity capabilities of the HAN and share information with other warfighters, anywhere in the world.
Today, Viasat offers an extensive portfolio of Link 16 terminal configurations and form factors. Link 16 communications networks provide the U.S. and international allies with greater situational awareness by exchanging digital data over a common data link that is continuously and automatically updated in real-time, reducing the chance of fratricide or duplicate assignments, while significantly enhancing mission effectiveness.
22 May 19. Raytheon rejects report that $6.2bn GPS project will be delayed further. A new report suggests a critical piece of the next-generation GPS system that has already been plagued by delays could be pushed back even further, a conclusion disputed by primary contractor Raytheon.
A May 21 Government Accountability Office report concludes that development of the GPS next-generation operational control system (OCX), a $6.2 billion program that is already five years behind schedule, will likely continue to see delays given the Air Force’s penchant for underestimating the amount of time necessary to develop it.
OCX is an essential piece of the ground system infrastructure that will allow the Air Force to fully command and control the next generation of GPS satellites and is part of the ongoing efforts to modernize GPS. Unlike the current system, OCX will provide a cybersecure ground system that can use M-code, a more robust, encrypted GPS signal used by the military, as well as newer civilian signals that can improve accuracy.
Raytheon, the primary contractor for OCX, pushed back against the GAO’s findings in a statement.
“The GAO assessment was never discussed with Raytheon, and their findings are inaccurate,” said Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business. “From what we can tell, the assessment was likely based upon partial and stale information. We’ve met all of our program milestones and, importantly, held both schedule and cost performance objectives since September 2017. We will deliver the full system by our June 2021 contractual deadline.”
The GAO noted in its report that it interviewed Raytheon officials during its audit, which stretched from November 2017 to May 2019.
OCX is already five years behind schedule and $2.5 billion more expensive than anticipated, according to the GAO. The program has seen its costs grow from an original estimate of $3.7 billion in 2012 to $6.2 billion, a 68 percent increase, triggering a Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breach in 2016. A Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breach requires a program to be shut down unless the Department of Defense intervenes and approves a new, reasonable cost estimate. In response to the breach, the Air Force updated their program schedule in September 2018 and now expect the program to be completed by April 2023.
In 2016, the Department of Defense concluded that the cost overruns were due to an unrealistic schedule, underestimating the cost of cybersecurity measures, a lack of software expertise in the government and poor systems engineering by Raytheon.
“Systems engineering work was part of issue, but it was a complex combination of factors that drove the cost increases,” said Bill Sullivan, vice president of the GPS OCX program in a statement provided to C4ISRNET. “The DoD report is from 2016. Working closely with the USAF, we have made tremendous strides in the last 3 years. Proof of that progress was clearly evident in the 2018 launch of the first GPS III satellite.”
But the GAO suspects that further delays are likely due to what they characterize as an optimistic program schedule with significant development remaining. The report notes that while the speed of software development has improved, most of the reserve time built into the new program schedule has already been eaten up by the roll out of a new development methodology.
The Air Force has acknowledged that delays are also possible during a seven-month testing period following delivery by Raytheon due to “concurrency, test plan uncertainty, and risks of late discovery of problems.”
The GAO suggests that some of those delays could be addressed by an independent assessment of the full OCX program schedule by the end of the year, a step they say is in line with best practices. The report notes, however, that the Department of Defense disagreed with their recommendations.
Even as OCX has floundered in development, GPS modernization has been moving ahead. In December 2018, the first GPS III satellite was launched into orbit. With OCX not expected to be available until 2022 at the earliest, the Air Force has worked to update the current command and control system so that it can control the GPS III satellites, albeit without their more advanced capabilities. The upgrades should allow the current system to use a more limited form of M-code called M-code Early Use.
Raytheon made clear in response to questions the company had no intention of making any adjustments in response to the GAO report.
“We are on a strong path toward full system delivery, and we have no plans to make any changes to program execution based on the GAO report,” Sullivan said. (Source: C4ISR & Networks)
23 May 19. Honeywell’s JetWave SATCOM system to support USAF’s C-17 fleet. Honeywell has secured a contract to provide high-speed connectivity for the US Air Force’s fleet of C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. The contract was awarded by the US Department of Defense (DoD) as part of the Fixed Installation Satellite Antenna programme. Booz Allen Hamilton is the primary contractor on the project. Honeywell will provide the JetWave satellite communications (SATCOM) system for 70 C-17 aircraft.
The JetWave system is designed to provide seamless and reliable Ka-band connectivity for militaries around the world.
It offers connectivity to Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite network, which delivers Ka-band satellite coverage around the globe, including over water, on non-traditional flight paths and in remote areas.
Honeywell Aerospace Defense Americas vice-president Steven Williams said: “JetWave supports real-time situational awareness for the aircrew, soldiers on board, and ground-based command leadership, ultimately enabling better decision-making and enhancing safety.”
Users can benefit from a range of services, including real-time weather, video conferencing, large file transfer, encryption capabilities, in-flight briefings, intelligence surveillance reconnaissance video and secure communications.
Broadband-class connectivity will allow the C-17 aircraft to be linked with command elements and forces worldwide in transit. This feature will help improve situational awareness and provide the ability to assess and adjust to the battlefield environment.
Honeywell Aerospace Defense Connectivity senior director Steve Hadden said: “The system’s reliable connection allows the aircraft to transform into a mobile communication hub en route to the battlefield, even in high-traffic areas. “JetWave has the bandwidth to support multiple users communicating and sharing sensor data to ensure mission-critical information can be transmitted at every step of the mission.”
The C-17 is known for its airlift capability and used to deliver troops and cargo to bases in any environment.
The first batch of ten JetWave systems will be delivered next month. The entire programme will run until 2021.
In 2017, Honeywell was contracted by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) to provide a fuselage-mount antenna on a C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft.
Last month, the agreement was expanded to include JetWave on five additional Hercules aircraft.
22 May 19. The U.S. Air Force Space Fence system detected the breakup field from an anti-satellite test conducted by India during a scheduled endurance exercise of the new space surveillance radar. As MICROSAT-R was expected to pass through the un-cued surveillance fence, Space Fence automatically issued a “breakup alert” indicating there were multiple objects within close proximity. Space Fence observed a significant amount of debris tracks surrounding the time of the event crossing labeled as uncorrelated targets. Long-arc tracking was initiated within the orbital debris cloud to form accurate initial orbit determinations. With this information, the system was able to automatically predict and correlate the next crossing time.
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) system operators then prepared for the next crossing by setting up an enhanced sensitivity task volume ahead of the normal un-cued surveillance fence to increase the low altitude track duration. Although the Space Fence is currently in its test phase and not yet operational, the Space Fence un-cued surveillance coverage showed its unique ability to observe these events unfolding at different altitudes in real time. Although the anti-satellite test was conducted at approximately 300 kilometers, the debris cloud extended beyond the original parent object orbit.
“Although the Space Fence system is still under test, it continues to demonstrate its advanced capabilities providing operationally-relevant information in all orbital regimes from Low Earth Orbit through Geosynchronous Earth Orbit,” said Dr. Rob Smith, vice president and general manager of Radar and Sensor Systems for Lockheed Martin. “The criticality of space assets to both national defense and the world economy cannot be understated. As multiple new mega constellations consisting of thousands of satellites become a reality and the space domain continues to become more congested, the demand for more accurate and timely space situational awareness data will be of the utmost importance to the warfighter.”
The Space Fence system continues to track objects from the anti-satellite event through the government-led testing phase which began in early April.
Colonel Stephen Purdy, Director of the Space Superiority Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, who oversees the Space Fence program said, “Space Fence is already proving itself as a capable system even before becoming operational. The Indian test showcased Space Fence’s capabilities in a real-world event. The system was able to quickly respond to a highly dynamic situation providing critical data. Space Fence is the latest in a long line of capabilities we are collectively bringing to the warfighter as we continue to build out space capabilities for the United States.”
22 May 19. India launches radar-imaging satellite. The Indian Space Research Organisation. (ISRO) has launched a radar-imaging Earth-observation satellite capable of capturing and relaying high-resolution images to enhance the Indian military’s surveillance capabilities.
Officials said the locally developed and built, day-and-night, all-weather 615-kg Radar Imaging Satellite-2B (RISAT-2B) was launched on 22 May at 0530 h local time from the ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, southern India, aboard the indigenously designed Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C46 (PSLV-C46).
According to the Indian government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB), the satellite was placed in a 556-km Sun-synchronous polar orbit about 15 minutes after PSLV-C46 was launched.
“After separation, solar arrays of RISAT-2B were deployed automatically and [the] ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network at Bangalore assumed control of the satellite,” the PIB stated, adding that RISAT-2B is expected to become fully operational in the “coming days”.
Fitted with an IEEE X-band (NATO I/J-band) synthetic aperture radar (SAR), RISAT-2B is stated to have a life span of five years and is capable of capturing high-resolution images despite dense cloud cover. It can also provide “detailed images of the size of objects on Earth, structures, movement, and any situational change on the ground”, military officials told Jane’s.
RISAT-2B is the third such satellite launched by the ISRO over the past decade, and will replace the Israeli-built X-band, SAR-equipped RISAT-2, and the locally designed RISAT-1 with its IEEE C-band (NATO G/H-band)-based SAR. These satellites were launched in 2009 and 2012, but have reached the end of their operational lives.
The data provided by the new satellite will complement high-resolution images supplied by the ISRO’s Cartosat series of Earth-observation satellites launched from 2005, but which tend to be ‘blinded’ by cloud cover. (Source: IHS Jane’s)
22 May 19. General Atomics prepares for first OTB satellite launch. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ (GA-EMS) Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite has arrived at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, US. The spacecraft will now undergo launch preparations ahead of its scheduled launch as part of the US Air Force’s Space Technology Program 2 (STP-2) flight on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
GA-EMS president Scott Forney said: “The arrival of the OTB spacecraft at Cape Canaveral marks the start of final preparations and integration on board the Falcon Heavy in anticipation of the launch, bringing our hosted payload customers that much closer to executing their missions.
“This will be our first OTB satellite launch, and we are extremely excited to be delivering new technology demonstrations into orbit that will help drive future space exploration.”
OTB satellites have the capability to host multiple payloads on a single platform.
The payloads hosted by GA-EMS’s OTB include Nasa’s deep space atomic clock, a US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) modular solar array, and an integrated miniaturised electrostatic analyser sensor payload developed by cadets at the US Air Force Academy.
GA-EMS Missile Defense and Space Systems vice-president Nick Bucci said: “OTB’s modularity and versatility allow for the simultaneous launch of multiple demonstration payloads on a single satellite.
“This eliminates the need for customers to bear the costly burden of a dedicated platform and launch.”
The company noted that the simultaneous launch capability offered by the OTB hosted payload platform will help increase the number of flight opportunities while allowing customers to access space in a cost-effective way. GA-EMS is also under contract to provide hosted services on two additional OTB satellites that are planned to be launched in 2021 and 2022.
In January this year, the firm received a hosted payload solutions (HoPS) mission delivery order from the USAF Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) for the Argos Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS).
The SMC HoPS programme seeks to enable the placement of government payloads on commercial satellites. (Source: airforce-technology.com)
22 May 19. ASA seeks public and industry comment on new space launch rulebook. The Australian Space Agency has invited industry members to present their views on updated rules for launch and return of rockets from Australian territory. That aims to ensure the booming domestic space industry isn’t unduly disadvantaged by regulation, when compared with other nations. Australia’s space launch regulatory regime was based on the 1998 Space Activities Act, developed at a time when the space industry was in its infancy. In 2015, the government embarked on a review of that legislation to ensure it did not unnecessarily inhibit innovation in Australia’s space activities. The review concluded the 1998 legislation imposed an unnecessary level of inflexibility, a high level of insurance and financial requirements in comparison with other space-faring nations, and a focus on the type of organisation undertaking the activity rather than the nature of the activity.
Improvements were incorporated in legislation amending the 1998 law, designed provide improvements appropriate to Australia’s national context and supported participation in the Australian space industry. That was balanced against the Australian Space Agency role as a globally responsible regulator. The Space Activities Amendment (Launches and Returns) Act 2018 passed both houses of Parliament in August 2018, became law on 31 August 2018 and is to commence on 31 August this year.
“It reflects consideration of removal of barriers to participation in activities, encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship, the safety of activities and the risk of damage to persons and property as a result of activities, and the implementation of certain obligations under the United Nations Space Treaties,” ASA said.
This broadens the regulatory framework to specifically include launches from aircraft in flight and provides for launch of high power rockets.
It also streamlines the approvals processes and insurance requirements for launches and returns. This regulatory framework is articulated in ‘rules’ instead of regulations to provide increased flexibility.
But does it work as it is supposed to in an environment of rapid technological change?
ASA is now seeking industry and public comment.
“Recognising the importance of the rules to future growth of the Australian space industry, as well as ensuring the safety of the Australian community, the Australian Space Agency is undertaking public consultation on the draft rules,” it said.
“The agency is seeking your considered evaluation of the practical implications of these rules, and welcome your comments and feedback during the consultation phase.”
ASA has released exposure drafts of the new rules for launch and return, for insurance requirements and for use of high powered rockets.
It will hold a series of consultation sessions in capital cities, starting in Sydney on 28 May and concluding in Canberra on 11 June. (Source: Space Connect)
21 May 19. Viasat Selected by General Services Administration to Modernize Operational Capabilities for U.S. Special Operations Forces and General Purpose Forces. Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, announced today it was awarded an IDIQ contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on April 18, 2019, with a maximum ceiling of $450m to support Rapid Migration of Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Cyber (C5AD) Capability Best Practices for U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) and U.S. General Purpose Forces (GPF). Through this award, Viasat will deliver a diverse portfolio of technologies and services to advance communications, intelligence, security and operational capabilities for SOF and GPF warfighters operating across the battlespace. Viasatproducts and services included as part of the IDIQ were assessed, tested and validated to enable new concepts of operation, improve situational awareness, avoid fratricide and improve overall mission effectiveness for U.S. SOF and GPF.
The IDIQ contract is structured to meet the immediate needs of the Department of Defense (DoD) in mobile networking, cybersecurity and broadband satellite communications technology sectors. The flexible nature of the IDIQ will allow U.S. SOF and GPF to rapidly acquire and deploy a wide variety of new operational capabilities, products, systems and services in order to help significantly enhance overall SOF and GPF mission effectiveness and improve safety for warfighters operating across the battlespace.
21 May 19. Peraton wins US Army ground-based communications system contract. US company Peraton has won a $14.9m ground-based midcourse defence (GMD) secure communications operations and maintenance (SCOM) contract from the 59th Signal Battalion of the US Army.
Under the five-year indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity GMD SCOM contract, Peraton will operate and maintain defence satellite communications system (DSCS) military strategic, tactical and relay (MILSTAR) and defence red switch network (DRSN) equipment and terminals at Fort Greely, Alaska, US.
The contract will support the provision of secure end-to-end communications connectivity by the Missile Defense Agency to the US Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, 311th Signal Command Theater, 516th Signal Brigade and 59th Signal Battalion.
Peraton space, intelligence and cyber president Roger Mason said: “We are enthusiastic to continue our long-standing support of this vital national security mission.
“Peraton has been performing this work since 2009, with GMD SCOM representing the third successive contract award, now extending our trusted partnership for an additional five years.”
The DSCS constellation provides communications for the army’s ground mobile forces, the airforce’s airborne terminals, navy ships, the White House Communications Agency, the US State Department and other users across the world.
Previously, the Peraton team has been recognised as the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) pacific facility of the year six times and as DISA global facility of the year in 2014 in the DSCS category.
With expertise in satellite communications, MILSTAR and DRSN, Peraton delivers performance excellence in advancing mission success.
The company, based in Herndon, Virginia, US, provides innovative, reliable solutions to the nation’s sensitive and mission-critical programmes and systems. It employs more than 3,000 people across the US and Canada. (Source: army-technology.com)
21 May 19. Australian Air Force takes delivery of space surveillance telescope. The Defence Estate and Infrastructure Group (E&IG) has handed over ownership of the new space surveillance telescope building to the Defence Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG).
The completed building and supporting facilities, located in Exmouth, Western Australia, are an important milestone in Project AIR 3029 Phase 2 – Space Surveillance Telescope. The space telescope will be housed in the new building and its installation is on track to meet initial operating capability in 2021.
Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Leo Davies, said the telescope would increase the capacity to detect and track objects in space in order to manage threats, including space debris, and predict and avoid potential collisions.
“These $97.2m facilities are the first of their type built for the Australian Defence Force and represent a significant achievement by Defence and Australian industry to enable the capability to be realised,” AIRMSHL Davies said.
The construction of the 270 tonne rotating dome enclosure and supporting facilities is a significant achievement for the Australian industry. The design and manufacture of the track and bogie mechanisms to allow the dome to rotate was undertaken by Hofmann Engineering, a Perth-based contractor, resulting in a world-leading product. The dome allows full 360 degree viewing of the night sky. Construction of the unique facilities by a combined team of contractors led by Aurecon as project manager/contract administrator and Sitlzer Construction as prime contractor demonstrated the capability of businesses local to the Exmouth area to deliver Defence projects.
“Air Force is working with Australian industry and educational institutions to build domestic space surveillance capability for Australia,” AIRMSHL Davies said. (Source: Defence Connect)
20 May 19. Preparing for the OmegA Rocket: How to do a Static Test. Tucked into the hillside off a quiet Utah highway, bunker-like buildings go relatively unnoticed among the brush. Deep inside one of these shed-like structures rests the work of dozens of the country’s best rocket scientists. Soon, years of development and dedication will culminate in a ten-second countdown and a smoke plume, but following this qualification test the opportunities are vast.
Recently, a team of technicians in Promontory, Utah, artfully manipulated the first stage of Northrop Grumman’s OmegA rocket into its final configuration using multiple cranes and other large tooling. After assembly, the 12-foot-diameter and 80-foot-long stage rests on supports, wiring spilling from its forward end and leading to data collection points carefully located based on precise measurements.
Northrop Grumman is building OmegA to launch intermediate to heavy national security payloads for the U.S. Air Force, as well as science and commercial payloads for other customers. Solid rocket motors with lightweight composite cases power the first and second stages. In a few weeks, the company will perform its first full-scale static test of the first stage, the bottom and most powerful portion of the rocket’s propulsion.
When talking to Scott Lehr, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s flight systems division, it is immediately clear he is proud of the work going on at Promontory. “This first stage ground test is a major milestone. Three and a half years ago we said we would accomplish this test in the spring of 2019, and that is exactly what we are going to do. In the National Security market, schedule is everything,” he said.
In the remaining days leading up to the static test, currently scheduled for May 30, 2019, technicians will finish attaching instrumentation gauges and data recorders that will measure key characteristics such as thrust, vibration and burn rate. Then they will practice conducting the test, running through and repeating each step of the countdown multiple times. Performing these simulations ensures the team members have all the test systems calibrated and functioning properly.
“Every countdown step is critical and has to be performed with perfection,” says Jamie Barney, director of test and research operations, propulsion systems, Northrop Grumman. “We have an extremely experienced team, but no one here is ever complacent about a rocket test.”
On test day, the entire test bay will roll back to expose the first stage motor attached to three “spacer” segments totaling 177 feet of white casing. When the countdown clock reaches zero, the igniter, housed in the forward segment, will rapidly ignite and pressurize the entire motor.
The motor will continue to burn for approximately two minutes, producing more than two million pounds of thrust channeled through a vectorable nozzle. During the test, 30 to 40 technicians and engineers will line the control room, closely monitoring the sensors, instrumentation, and cameras on and around the motor. They will collect approximately 700 data channels, gauging everything from case growth to component stresses to motor pressure to temperatures – all essential data to qualify this motor for flight.
“The first stage rocket motor is the heart of the OmegA vehicle,” says Paul Messer, OmegA first and second stage motor program manager, Northrop Grumman. “With the critical data from the static fire test, and the post-test inspections, we can qualify our products and ensure their reliability to our customers.”
For about six months after the test, the team will assess the data and disassemble, evaluate and dissect the hardware to observe the effects of motor operation. A post-assessment verdict of reliability across all systems will qualify the motor for flight.
“Successfully completing the full-scale static test later this month will be a significant milestone,” says Kevin Wilder, OmegA deputy program director, Northrop Grumman. “Everyone on the team is personally invested in this program, and we are all looking forward to OmegA’s first launch in 2021.”
20 May 19. SpaceX shares details on Starlink constellation program. SpaceX has provided new insight into its ambitious Starlink constellation program, which aims at providing a new space-based internet system to an unprecedented area of coverage, as the first set of satellites prepare to launch into orbit.
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has revealed that the company’s target amount of satellites to launch to orbit are 12,000, with the Starlink program considered economically sound after the launch of 1,000.
“For the system to be economically viable, it’s really on the order of 1,000 satellites,” Musk said.
“If we are putting a lot more satellites than that in orbit, that’s a very good thing — it means there is a lot of demand for the system.”
SpaceX’s first launch with Starlink satellites is due to go ahead on 17 May, aboard the Falcon 9, with 60 satellites on board.
Moving forward, Musk confirmed that SpaceX could launch 1,000 to 2,000 satellites per year using its Falcon rockets.
“It’s a heck of a lot of launches. We will hopefully have Starship active by the time we are anywhere near 12,000 satellites,” Musk said, in reference to the company’s under-development reusable launch system.
After 400 satellites are launched, or seven missions, Starlink will provide continual coverage in limited areas, while 12 launches would ensure coverage of the US. After 24 launches, most of the world’s population would be covered, while 30 launches would cover the entire planet. (Source: Space Connect)
20 May 19. Design work concludes on WA astronomical supercomputers. Engineering design work has concluded for what will be the world’s fastest supercomputer, built to process the vast amount of data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope in South Africa and Western Australia. What’s called the SDP (science data processor) itself will be composed of two supercomputers, one in Cape Town, South Africa to process data from the SKA-mid array and one in Perth to process data from SKA-low array. SKA is an international project consisting of thousands of antennas across the world, with central cores of operation in South Africa and in WA.
By combining signals from the large number of small antennas, SKA is in effect a single giant radio telescope capable of extremely high sensitivity and angular resolution, giving it the ability to determine where a signal originates. SKA will feature a total collecting area of approximately a square kilometre, which will make it 50 times more sensitive than any existing radio telescopes, allowing astronomers to survey vast areas of the sky in parallel for the first time.
In Australia, the core site, comprising some 130,000 individual antennas, will be at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory at Mileura Station near Boolardy in WA and operated by the CSIRO. Construction will begin next year.
Computer processing of data will be performed around the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth. Last week, Labor promised $7.5m additional funding for SKA should it win government.
The SKA SDP consortium, which includes the Pawsey Centre, has announced it has concluded five years of engineering design work on one of the two supercomputers to process the enormous amounts of data produced by the SKA’s telescopes.
The international consortium was led by the University of Cambridge in the UK and involved almost 40 institutions in 11 countries. SDP is the second stage of processing for SKA data and follows correlation and beamforming in the Central Signal Processor (CSP).
SKA’s SDP project manager Maurizio Miccolis said it had been a pleasure to work with such an international team of experts.
“We’ve worked with almost every SKA country to make this happen, which goes to show how hard what we’re trying to do is,’ he said.
“We estimate SDP’s total compute power to be around 250 PFlops – that’s 25 per cent faster than IBM’s Summit, the current fastest supercomputer in the world. In total, up to 600 PB of data will be distributed around the world every year from SDP – that’s enough to fill more than a million average laptops.”
The consortium role was to design computing hardware platforms, software, and algorithms needed to process data from CSP into science data products.
“SDP is where data becomes information,” said Rosie Bolton, SKA Data Centre scientist.
“This is where we start making sense of the data and produce detailed astronomical images of the sky.”
Because of the sheer quantity of data flowing into SDP – some five terabits per second or 100,000 times faster than the projected global average broadband speed in 2022 – it will need to make independent decisions in near real-time on what is noise and what’s worth keeping.
The team also designed SDP so that it can detect and remove man-made radio frequency interference (RFI) – for example from satellites and other sources – from the data. (Source: Space Connect)
20 May 19. Local companies team up on Australian defence satellite system. Two Australian companies, DEWC Systems and Southern Launch, have agreed to work together to deliver the first fully Australian, designed, developed, launched and operated defence satellite system.
The system, called the Miniaturised Orbital Electronic Warfare Sensor System (MOESS) project, aims to provide a fully Australian developed, owned and operated space-based electronic warfare capability.
MOESS will leverage off the recent growth of the Australian space industry capability to utilise CubeSats as a platform to make MOESS a cost effective and versatile capability solution.
As per their agreement, DEWC Systems will work with Southern Launch to be an early adopter of their satellite launch facilities at the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex on the Eyre Peninsula and for use of the Southern Launch test ranges for R&D activities.
“It is Southern Launch’s goal to help develop the resilient, space-enabled Australian Defence Force of the future, something that is shared by DEWC Systems,” said Lloyd Damp, CEO Southern Launch.
“The MOESS project, led by DEWC Systems will provide our Defence Force with a tactical edge that will ensure the safety and security of our soldiers. We look forward to working with DEWC on the project.”
The MOESS satellites will be launched from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex, and enter polar low-Earth orbits to provide worldwide coverage at a “fraction of the cost of other launch sites”.
DEWC Systems is expecting to progress to flight trials next year, with in-space testing to take place in 2022.
“DEWC is a community of professionals, passionate about delivering Australian technical supremacy in the electromagnetic battlespace,” said Ian Spencer, CEO DEWC Systems.
“At DEWC Systems we are excited to be able to work with pioneers such as Southern Launch to realise our shared vision of a truly sustainable and thriving Australian space industry. Now is the time and South Australia is the place.”
The two companies said they “share a vision of building an effective and self-sustaining space industry ecosystem within South Australia”, and hope to inspire others to “make the leap” and turn their vision into a reality, through the collaboration and partnerships with the government of South Australia, Defence, academia and other industry partners. (Source: Defence Connect)
17 May 19. Commerce/NOAA’s Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing to Meet June 4 – (84 Fed. Reg. 21331) – The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that its Advisory Committee on Remote Sensing (ACCRES) will meet Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT, at the Commerce Research Library, Herbert C. Hoover Building, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230. To avoid overcrowding should an unexpected number of members of the public attend the meeting, ACCRES invites interested members of the public to RSVP through this link. During the meeting, the Committee will receive updates on NOAA’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs activities and discuss updates to the commercial remote sensing regulatory regime. The Committee will also discuss updates in the regulations and trends in international regulatory regimes. (Source: glstrade.com)
17 May 19. Commerce/NOAA Proposes Changes to Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Space Systems –(84 Fed. Reg. 21282) – The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) licenses the operation of private remote sensing space systems under the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992. NOAA’s existing regulations implementing the Act at 15 C.F.R. Part 960 were last updated in 2006. Commerce is now proposing to rewrite those regulations, as described in detail this Federal Register notice, to reflect significant changes in the space-based remote sensing industry since that time and to improve the regulatory approach overall. Commerce requests public comment on the new proposed regulations. Interested persons have until July 15, 2019, to submit their comments on these proposed changes. (Source: glstrade.com)
16 May 19. Space Launch Startup Earth to Sky Announces Launch Services Agreement with Delta Satellite Solutions. Earth to Sky, Inc. (ETS) announces the signing of a definitive launch services agreement with Delta Satellite Solutions, Inc. (DSS), a provider of payload and satellite integration services for academic institutions. The launch will occur in March 2021 to 550 km sun synchronous orbit and will launch 120 cubesats.
“We are very excited to be working with DSS, supporting opportunities for educational institutions to fly cubesats,” said Chris Barker, President of ETS. “Our Sleek Eagle launch vehicle mated with our Cubesat Ring dispenser is capable of launching dozens of cubesats and other satellites on a single mission.”
“The educational market for cubesat missions is significantly underserved,” said Evelyn Torres Bada, President of DSS. Various STEM and government programs support development of satellites but not flying them and, as a result, there are hundreds of cubesats in colleges and universities around the world that are waiting for an opportunity to fly. Ms. Torres Bada commented that “the current high cost of flying cubesats, even as secondary payloads, has prohibited most from launching. Our price point is significantly under today’s costs and we plan to meet this large and growing need. We understand the tremendous educational value and motivation that being part of a satellite program operating in space can be for students at all levels. These un-launched satellites could become a significant boon for STEM related subjects when they are orbiting the Earth.” (Source: ASD Network)
14 May 19. Rocket Lab to Launch Rideshare Mission for Spaceflight. Rocket Lab’s next flight will launch multiple spacecraft on a mission procured by satellite rideshare and mission management provider, Spaceflight.
The launch window will open in June, with the launch taking place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. The mission is Rocket Lab’s seventh Electron launch overall and the company’s third for 2019, continuing Rocket Lab’s average monthly launch cadence. The flight follows dedicated missions launched for DARPA and the U.S. Air Force’s Space Test Program in the first months of 2019. The mission is named ‘Make it Rain’ in a nod to the high volume of rainfall in Seattle, where Spaceflight is headquartered, as well in New Zealand where Launch Complex 1 is located. Among the satellites on the mission for Spaceflight are BlackSky’s Global-4, two U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Prometheus and Melbourne Space Program’s ACRUX-1.
The spacecraft manifested on the mission will be delivered to precise, individual orbits by Electron’s Kick Stage. Powered by the 3D printed Curie engine, the Kick Stage carries the payloads to a circular orbit before employing a cold gas reaction control system to orient itself for precise deployment of each satellite at pre-defined intervals. This removes the risk of spacecraft recontact during deployment and ensures each spacecraft is deployed to the ideal orbit.
Rocket Lab has been delivering small satellites to orbit since January 2018. The company has launched 28 satellites on Electron for a range of government and commercial mission partners including NASA, the DOD Space Test Program and DARPA. Rocket Lab’s 2019 manifest is fully booked with monthly launches, scaling to a launch every two weeks by the end of the year. The first launch from the company’s second launch site, Launch Complex 2, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia, will also take place later this year.
Rocket Lab Founder and CEO Peter Beck said rideshares have historically presented a challenge for small satellite operators, as they are often at the mercy of the primary payload’s schedule and orbit and said that this exciting mission with Spaceflight demonstrates the new level of freedom now offered to small satellite operators thanks to Electron. Rocket Lab puts small satellite operators in charge, offering an unmatched level of control over launch schedule. Thanks to Electron’s Kick Stage, the company also deliver sthe kind of precision orbital deployment normally reserved for a prime. (Source: Satnews)
15 May 19. Comtech EF Data’s Expansion of the Satellite Modem Product Line. More Form and Performance. Comtech EF Data Corp., a subsidiary within Comtech Telecommunications Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CMTL) Commercial Solutions segment, recently expanded their satellite modem product line, introducing more form factor choices, the SLM-5650C and SLM-5650C ODU CyberLynx™ Software Defined Modems, and enhanced performance options.
The SLM-5650C and SLM-5650C ODU CyberLynx Software Defined Modems are the latest generation modem solutions featuring extremely compact form factors and software options. The new modems can be integrated with a variety of platforms and provide an upgrade path to support future requirements. The modems are designed to comply with the widest possible range of U.S. Government and commercial standards, and are compatible with the largest number of satellite modems in the industry.
The SLM-5650C CyberLynx model is an indoor product that operates from -10°C to +55°C using conductive cooling. The heat is transferred from the electronics to the housing and then to an external mounting surface, such as a trailer wall. The SLM-5650C ODU CyberLynx model is a true IP67 rated Outdoor Unit (“ODU”) that is designed to meet MIL-STD-810G and operates from -32°C to +65°C.
The modems offer unparalleled protection of critical network traffic using advanced physical layer waveforms and proven TRANSEC protection. The SLM-5650C and SLM-5650C ODU CyberLynx feature AES-256 TRANSEC that is fully compatible with Comtech EF Data’s new SLM-5650B and legacy SLM-5650A Satellite Modems.
In addition, the previously announced SLM-5650B Satellite Modem is now USARSTRAT Wideband Global SATCOM (“WGS”) certified, making it the ideal modem solution to enable protected communications for all WGS operators, including the United States Government and partner nations. The SLM-5650B Satellite Modem is targeted for critical commercial backhaul and government and military applications. It is fully compliant with MIL-STD-188-165A/B and fully complies with STANAG 4486 Edition 3, Annex E (“EBEM”). The SLM-5650B leverages the heritage and feature set of Comtech EF Data’s very successful SLM-5650A modem. The SLM-5650B supports backwards compatibility / inter-operability for existing SLM-5650A networks while providing enhanced performance.
The SLM-5650C and SLM-5650C ODU CyberLynx Software Defined Modems and the SLM-5650B Satellite Modem are all commercially available. For additional configuration and pricing information on the modems, contact Comtech EF Data sales.
Jeff Harig, SVP Government Systems for Comtech EF Data, said building on the firm’s expertise with the installed and proven SLM-5650A and SLM-5650B Satellite Modems, the company has reduced the form factor (volume) of the SLM-5650C and SLM-5650C ODU CyberLynx approximately 90 percent, has doubled the processing resources, reduced the maximum power consumption by 80 percent and increased the functionality compared to the SLM-5650A. The proven performance of the company’s offerings translates into reliability, scalability, and adaptability while optimizing space segment for mission-critical communications for government, military and commercial applications. (Source: Satnews)
14 May 19. The NAOS Satellite to be Launched Via a Vega-C Rocket. The “National Advanced Optical System” (NAOS) satellite manufactured by OHB Italia for the Luxembourg’s Directorate of Defence will be launched by a Vega (Vega or Vega C) launcher. The satellite will be launched in 2022 from Kourou Space Center, in French Guyana. The satellite, built by OHB Italia, will weigh around 600 kg. at launch, will be positioned in SSO at about 500 km. and will have a nominal service life of at least seven years.
Designed to meet governmental and military needs, NAOS, a high-resolution satellite, will provide global coverage, as the result of the satellite’s ability to capture more than 100 pictures per day. The data collected by the satellite will allow Luxembourg to play a more active role in the defense efforts of Europe and NATO (North-Atlantic Treaty Organization).
Giulio Ranzo, CEO of Avio, stated that the company is proud to have received this new contract in that Vega has been selected, once again, for a strategic mission involving OHB Italia, Luxembourg and Arianespace. This contract further confirms the quality of the Avio product. (Source: Satnews)
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Many dogs, especially those with families, want to learn new tricks. However, their owners may be more satisfied with the speed and results they are getting. So what should you do if you want to take your pup out of class? First, you could always enroll them in an Dog Training obedience school.
But that would mean taking your dog out of the house for hours a day and paying hundreds of dollars a month for lessons. Nowadays, there is an easy alternative called ‘In Home Training,’ which allows pet owners to teach their pets at home without spending any money! So if you care about your dog’s needs and wants, it is worth looking into a ‘Dog Training School.’
In-Home Training For Dogs
A well-put-together setup of in-home training will cost less and is easily expandable per your dog’s needs. Yet because it is so simple, there is no way to know beforehand exactly how good your results will be.
This approach treats your dog like an adult with its unique personality, mannerisms, and skills. As a result, the dog becomes a partner in learning, making this system ideal for owners with busy lifestyles.
- It is a low-cost method that does not require you to spend money on your dog’s training.
- You are in control of the situation and can decide to work with your dog at all hours, whenever it is most convenient for you.
The system requires the owner to put in the effort, so it cannot be relied upon as a backup plan in case dog training schools are unavailable.
Dog Training Schools & Their Benefits
It is easier to see the need for a dog training school as it gives you the right help from professionals like Momentum K9 Dog Training Boise. The main reason to take your dog out of a pet store or even a pet shop is that they have already been groomed, neutered, socialized, and trained.
So you will not have to worry about any of these things with going to a dog training school. However, getting your pup into one of these classes can be difficult as most require their students to be fully vaccinated, and there can be a waiting list for entry.
- An instructor’s experience with your dog will help to understand the dog’s training needs more effectively, and you can learn a lot more effectively by observing other dogs.
- It is easier to view the dogs in a group setting, and they are much easier to get along with because they know that they will not be harmed if they misbehave.
- Your dog has a chance to socialize with other dogs at the same level of ability and experience.
Your dog must board the training facility for a few days, and you will have to pay for its training program.
There is no doubt that both of these methods have their benefits and drawbacks, and it is up to you to choose the dog training method that works best for you. However, if money is an issue, then in-home training is the way to go! But, if your dog is showing no improvement with home training, you can always get professional help.

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A new UK-wide clinical trial, offering an innovative cell therapy treatment for COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure has recruited its first patients, supported by NIHR.
The study, led by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, is investigating the use of allogenic Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) in patients with a complication known as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) caused by COVID-19.
Many of the most critically unwell patients with the virus develop ARDS - a condition where the lungs become inflamed and leaky so they fill with fluid. This causes respiratory failure and patients may require admission to intensive care and a ventilator machine to support their breathing.
Researchers in the REALIST COVID-19 trial will use MSCs - a type of cell derived from human tissue such as bone marrow or umbilical cord (which is otherwise discarded after the baby is born) - to treat the injury to the lungs caused by the virus.
The trial is the only cell therapy study currently recruiting in the UK for COVID-19 and is one of a number of COVID-19 studies that have been given urgent public health research status by the Department of Health and Social Care. It is supported by the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN), funded by the Health and Social Care Research & Development Division Northern Ireland and the Wellcome Trust, and sponsored by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
Professors Danny McAuley and Cecilia O’Kane, both from the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine at Queen’s are leading the study. Professor McAuley said: “This trial is the first of its kind in the UK to test if cell therapy as a novel treatment for severe respiratory failure due to COVID-19 is safe and associated with improvement in patient outcomes. There is an urgent need for evidence in this area and we hope our research provides important insight into this innovative treatment.”
Patients will be treated with a purified population of MSCs derived from umbilical cord tissue, called ORBCEL-C - a therapy that has been developed by scientists at Orbsen Therapeutics in Galway, Ireland. The ORBCEL-C therapeutic is manufactured under licence by the UK NHS Blood and Transplant Service for the trial.
The trial is being introduced as part of an existing programme of research investigating the use of MSCs in patients with ARDS. A total of 13 patients have now been recruited with plans to recruit at least 60 patients throughout the COVID-19 pandemic at multiple sites across the UK.
Professor Nick Lemoine, Medical Director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN), said: “This is a pioneering, world-leading trial using a cutting edge intervention that could make a huge difference to some of the most severely ill patients with COVID-19 and hopefully provide lifesaving treatment."
Sir Professor Alimuddin Zumla of University College London, a global coronavirus and infectious diseases expert, and an NIHR Senior Investigator, said: “This is an exciting and important trial which targets rectifying the underlying causes of lung damage and has great potential of saving many lives from COVID-19. The team should be congratulated for their leadership of host-directed therapies, a concept which has not yet been explored to its full potential.”
The study is also supported by the NI Clinical Trials Unit and the Northern Ireland Clinical Research Network.
More information about the study is available on the NIHR website and the study’s project page. The REALIST protocol summary is available online.

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According to a recent survey, more than 45 million people in the world is currently suffering from rosacea. Out of them, over 16 million lives in the United States.
Anyone can develop the problem; however, it occurs more commonly in women than men. What you must note here is that men tend to have more serious cases compared to women.
Medical experts divide rosacea into four sub-types. The most widely experienced type among them is marked by flushed skin and noticeable veins on the cheeks, nose, jaw, and temple.
Scientists are yet to identify any particular cause of rosacea. They only talk about some triggering factors.
Examples include consumption of spicy food, hot beverages, and/or alcohol, exposure to extreme temperatures, wind, and/or sunlight, stress, excessive exercising, blood pressure medications or drugs that work by dilating blood vessels, and cosmetics containing harsh chemicals.
If your doctor has confirmed that you have rosacea, you must read through the section below.
Reading it, would also come in handy if any of your dear ones has developed the problem.
The section features my review of Rosacea Relief Serum
The worst thing about this skin disorder is that there’s still no solution to this problem. I had no idea that rosacea is untreatable until I developed the problem myself.
The doctor kept giving me medicines. They reduced my symptoms temporarily, but the disorder never went away completely. And over time, the symptoms became even more debilitating.
After suffering from the condition for some time and with no medicine showing any result, I started looking for a solution myself.
The situation turned even worse as I ended up using a series of useless products. It’s needless to say that they wooed me by making false claims. My skin became excessively dry and super sensitive.
Pamela, a dear friend of mine came to my rescue. She handed me a pack of Rosacea Relief Serum and said that it can be my savior in such dire situation.
I knew about Pamela’s struggle with skin problems and was very much surprised to see her flaunting those glowing cheeks. Her amazing transformation forced me to believe that Rosacea Relief Serum might work on me.
After years of struggle with rosacea, I finally got back my original skin. Now, I want others like me to have a similar experience.
So, Whats that amazing Serum? Lets dive into deep about Serum.
- 1 What Is Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum?
- 2 Why Should You Use Rosacea Relief Serum?
- 2.1 Let’s have a look about the Ingredients
- 2.2 How to Use the Rosacea Relief Serum?
- 2.3 Benefits Offered by Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum
- 2.4 The Working Procedure of Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum
- 2.5 Frequently Asked Questions
- 2.5.1 When should I use Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum?
- 2.5.2 When will I see results?
- 2.5.3 Will I get side effects after using Rosacea Relief Serum by Skinception?
- 2.5.4 Is the product really effective or it is just a scam?
- 2.5.5 Does the product have any refund policy or money back guarantee?
- 2.5.6 Are there any offers?
- 2.5.7 Are customers happy with the product?
- 2.5.8 How to place order for Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum?
- 2.5.9 Final Verdict
- 2.5.10 Was this article helpful?
What Is Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum?
Dr. Dave David formulated this serum with the aim of helping individuals looking to remove red patches from their skin. These are not regular red patches but patches developing due to the incapacitating skin condition rosacea.
Who is Dr. Dave David?
He is 32 years experienced Gynecology and Obstetrics. He is founder of Medical Face & Body Aesthetics in Boston, Massachusetts with having latest surgical and medical procedure to help patients.
There is still no remedy for rosacea. Your doctor can only give you medications for soothing the symptoms of the condition and decrease their manifestation momentarily.
You will also be advised to change your lifestyle to feel better.
However, your life will remain miserable as the disease will not go away and its symptoms will also not reduce permanently.
This makes Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum a one-of-its-kind product. It will play the role of a catalyst and alleviate the effects of the skin disorder significantly.
The redness on your skin would reduce and healthier bloodstream would flow through your capillaries disposing of the dreadful stains.
Other than the active ingredients, the serum also contains various herbal extracts.
These two groups work together for reducing effects of rosacea and protecting the users’ skin from any future harm. They effectively saturate the skin’s boundary and improve it over time.
Regular use of the serum will not only reduce the redness on your skin but will also ensure that your skin remains duly moisturized. It will sooth your skin and make it less sensitive.
Why Should You Use Rosacea Relief Serum?
1) Dr. David has given the serum a light, velvety texture, which allows it to assimilate quickly into the users’ skin. Your skin would feel flawless and plush after applying this special formulation.
2) The product is not oily. You will never see your skin turn sticky after applying the serum.
3) Dr. David has not used any artificial fragrance and that’s real good news for the extra touchy skin of rosacea affected individuals.
4) Last, but not the least, the serum contains highly effective and safe ingredients.
Let’s have a look about the Ingredients
Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum combines four active ingredients with a handful of natural extracts. Read on to know about them.
Renovage: Renovage is the tradename used for the drug teprenone.
Findings of recent studies have forced scientists to vouch for the skincare benefits of Renovage. The drug can manage rosacea effectively and also offers anti-aging benefits.
Studies conducted by various researcher groups have found that the drug helps in structural and functional improvement of our skin.
- Removes fine lines and wrinkles
- Reduces pore size
- Makes skin firmer and increases skin elasticity
- Reduces erythrosis
- Hydrates skin
- Improves barrier function
- Removes pigmentation
Renovage works at the DNA level. It ensures that our DNA threads don’t get unraveled. This means that the drug allows our skin cells to divide without harming our DNA structure.
For those who don’t know, unravelling of DNA cells triggers cell death. By stopping this action, Renovage prolongs life of our cells.
During a recent clinical study, 25 women aged 45 or above were given two daily doses of Renovage for a period of six months.
The skin condition of all participants first got evaluated after a month, then after three months, and finally after six months.
The drug reduced various symptoms of rosacea significantly.
- More than 90% of the participants experienced decrease in skin redness
- The intensity of redness reduced by 30% of even more
- 75% of the participants experienced improvement in barrier function
- Participants’ barrier integrity increased by a whopping 58% or more
- Over 75% of the participants experienced improvement in skin tone, firmness, and elasticity
- Around 75% of the participants experienced improvement in skin roughness
What’s more reassuring is that even the findings of vitro tests presented Renovage as a perfect aid for rosacea affected individuals.
The research revealed that:
- Renovage increases our cells’ ability to resist the harmful UV rays by up to 100%.
This is a big news considering that most cases of rosacea occur due to overexposure to UV rays.
- Renovage increases life span of a cell by almost one-third.
- Renovage improves cell’s functionality by up to 60%
Actiflow: Actiflow, a skincare agent manufactured by Silab, is the trade name of brewer’s yeast or saccharomyces cerevisiae extracts.
Actiflow works by improving blood circulation inside the tiny and delicate blood vessels underneath our skin. In addition, it also improves our vascular congestion.
Vascular congestion, deterioration of our vascular health, and impaired circulation are some of the main factors triggering occurrence of rosacea. This makes Actiflow an highly beneficial ingredient for people with rosacea.
Multiple clinical studies conducted over the years vouch for Actiflow’s anti-redness and anti-inflammatory properties.
These qualities allow the ingredient to manage ultra-sensitivity of the skin of people with rosacea. Additionally, the ingredient can also calm and soothe skin inflammation and reverse skin discoloration.
How to Use the Rosacea Relief Serum?
For best results, you should apply the serum on the affected parts of your skin twice every day.
I would advise you to apply it once after having your morning shower and then again at night before going to bed.
Make sure that your skin is completely clean when applying the serum. If your skin has oil or dirt on it, the serum will not work well.
I had serious rosacea symptoms, so I used to apply the product all over my face. You can do the same if your symptoms are extremely debilitating.
However, if you have just one or two breakouts, you should get good results just by applying the serum on the affected areas. Take a look just 1 month difference
Dr. David’s Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum was formulated with the aim of mitigating rosacea and reducing the warmth causing the condition.
While performing its main job flawlessly, the serum also prevents untimely aging.
Kindled skin has always been one of the main causes of premature aging. By neutralizing such skin issues, the rosacea serum automatically battles the aging process effectively.
Rosacea tend to bother the sufferers in waves. Things usually become worse when the condition is in activates state.
This product from Skinception is instrumental in working on the most terrible patches.
Here’s a list of benefits you will enjoy when using the serum:
- Reduction in redness and staining
- Soothing of inflamed skin
- Gradual disappearance of the purple and red arachnid veins resulting from blood purification
- Decrease in pricking and burning sensation
- Skin becomes more flexible and toned
- Skin thickness becomes normal
- Saturates the delicates parts of the skin without causing any flareup
The Working Procedure of Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum
After suffering from the skin disorder for a few weeks, you will suddenly see the symptoms fading. This may or may not happen due to any medication.
Life will become normal and you will feel great. Then, suddenly after a few months, your rosacea symptoms will again arrive.
This new cycle might be a result of hormonal imbalance, use of certain cosmetic products, stress, diet, and so on.
You will see your sensitive skin flare up and become inflamed and red. You will have burning sensations all over the affected regions.
All these will lead to extreme embarrassment and frustration. And if you don’t treat the symptoms, they will keep getting worse.
Unlike any of its rival products, Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum can break the rosacea cycle and offer pain relief at all stages of the disease.
Stage #1: The serum will make your skin strong enough to sustain adverse environmental factors
One common problem that almost all rosacea sufferers have is skin sensitivity.
They can end up getting outbreaks after getting exposed to excess heat, strong wind, heavy dust, and many such other environmental factors.
What’s even more dangerous is that at times these sufferers fail to detect the culprit.
The serum plays the role of a barrier cream for preventing rosacea attacks in these people.
Here, it must be noted that more than 80 percent of rosacea patients are sensitive to regular skin care products.
Thus, it’s important for them to use products that would improve their skin’s barrier function without activating rosacea symptoms in them. The product they use should never trap common triggers such as vitamin C against their skin.
Skinception’s rosacea serum is one such product.
Stage #2: Your skin sensitivity will be diminished significantly
Individuals with rosacea keep complaining about inflammation.
This happens because most of these people have hyper-sensitive skin. This hyper-sensitivity causes the blood vessels underneath the skin’s surface to degenerate.
Degeneration of the blood vessels results in formation of spider veins, prickling heat, angry inflammation and a constant redness on the skin.
Rosacea Relief Serum contains ingredients that can improve the vascular health of the users’ skin and make their skin less sensitive.
Stage #3: There will be no inflammation in your blood vessels
Inflammation of blood vessels will not allow them to contract and dilate easily.
There may be times when the walls separating your blood vessels would break down. Such events lead to blood pools, sluggish oxygen circulation in the adjacent tissues, and spider veins.
Rosacea Relief Serum would reduce inflammation of the blood vessels and end all the above-mentioned problems.
Stage #4: You will be able to fight premature aging and beat it
Individual with rosacea are highly susceptible to premature aging.
To put it more bluntly, chronic inflammation leaves our skin heavily damaged and thus speeds up the aging process.
After suffering from rosacea for a few years you will suddenly discover that you have started to look much older than your actual age.
This often leads to depression, anxiety, and stress, which aggravates the problem even further.
Being a rosacea sufferer, you will not be able to use most anti-aging products available on the market. That’s because they contain harsh chemicals that might worsen your symptoms significantly.
Keeping these factors in mind, Dr. David has used anti-aging ingredients when formulating the Rosacea Relief Serum.
Other than offering relief from rosacea, the serum also regenerates the users’ skin naturally. It would help in maintaining skin elasticity by shielding its collagen matrix.
Regular use of the product would make your skin more youthful and smoother than ever before.
Frequently Asked Questions
When should I use Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum?
Here are a few symptoms that indicate occurrence of rosacea. Get yourself checked by a dermatologist if you have one or more of them:
Facial redness: Rosacea affected individuals develop persistent redness on various parts of their face. The tiny blood vessels underneath the skin of your cheeks and nose might become inflamed and visible.
Red bumps: Rosacea might cause formation of acne like bumps on the face.
The bumps may or may not contain pus but often make the skin feel tender and hot.
Enlarged nose: Rosacea, if left untreated for a long time, might make the skin of the nose extremely thick.
Your nose might look bulbous, a condition referred to as rhinophyma. This symptom, however, is more common in men than women.
When will I see results?
It’s not easy to treat rosacea. However, still Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum manages to show measurable and visible results within four weeks i.e. 30 days.
However, for knowing whether the product is working on you, you should use it regularly for at least 60 days.
Apply the serum on the affected areas every day and not just when you have outbreaks. This will help you in keeping rosacea at bay.
If you use the serum daily for 30 days, it may do the following for you:
- Bring the outbreaks under control
- Soothe your skin and ease symptoms during breakouts and decrease long term risks such as premature aging and chronic skin damage
Will I get side effects after using Rosacea Relief Serum by Skinception?
To date, no user has complained about any side effect of the product.
If you check various review forums and online platforms featuring discussion on this serum, you will only come across posts listing the benefits of its ingredients.
That’s possible only because of the science behind the product.
Dr. Dave David has combined series of safe and useful ingredients for formulating the Rosacea relief Serum.
Is the product really effective or it is just a scam?
The Rosacea Relief Serum is ruling the market since a pretty long time. If numbers are to be believed, the serum has made more than 90% of its users happy.
The 10% who didn’t get expected results got back their money. Yes, the makers of this rosacea serum offer a money back guarantee.
Does the product have any refund policy or money back guarantee?
Based on my experience, I can tell you that there’s little chance that you will want to return the product. With so many beneficial ingredients, it’s unlikely that the serum would not work on your skin.
However, still Skinception is offering a 67-day money back guarantee on its Rosacea Relief Serum.
I have already mentioned that the serum takes around 60 days to show prominent results.
If you fail to see any such changes even after applying the product daily for 60 days, you can return the product and get your money back.
The company has named it “67-day money back guarantee” considering that the shipping process might take up to 7 days to be complete..
Once the company would receive your product, they will refund the entire amount paid by you barring the shipping and handling charges.
Are there any offers?
When it comes to buying the product, the company is offering you three options.
You can buy one month’s supply of the serum or decide to buy 3 or 6 month supply of the product together.
The biggest benefit of buying three- or six-month supply is that it would allow you to save significant amount of money.
By buying three-month supply of Skinception Rosacea Relief Serum, you will be saving more than $50.
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On the heels of Grays Harbor Community Hospital’s announcement that the Aberdeen-based hospital was forming an exclusive “affiliation” with the much larger MultiCare Health System to increase medical services, Summit Pacific Medical Center’s board of commissioners are looking into the pros and cons of a similar move.
Over the next couple of months, commissioners of the East County-based public hospital district will decide whether to reach out to larger hospitals and join existing networks or continue to be part of a consortium of smaller hospitals.
Landon Merrill, a Master of Healthcare Administration student at the University of Washington, has spent several months researching the issue for Summit Pacific.
Merrill notes that the frequency of affiliations are a direct response to the requirements put on hospitals to comply with the federal Affordable Care Act.
Besides Grays Harbor Community Hospital joining up with MultiCare, Forks General Hospital, Jefferson Healthcare and Olympic Medical Center affiliated with Swedish Medical Center. United General Hospital in Sedro Woolley joined PeaceHealth’s regional network of care; and Island Hospital, Skagit Regional Health and Cascade Valley Hospital are expected to announce their selection of a strategic partner this summer.
David Quigg, hospital spokesman for Grays Harbor Community Hospital, said he was unaware so many other hospitals were implementing affiliations. He said the choice for affiliations for the Aberdeen hospital had more to do with providing more choices and services than complying with federal health care regulations.
Merrill says there’s indisputable evidence, however, that smaller hospitals will have challenges meeting demands of paperwork and services under the health care laws.
In a presentation a couple of weeks ago before the public hospital commissioners at Summit Pacific in Elma, Merrill recommended that the Hospital Board put out a request for information from potential partners to see if larger hospitals would be willing to work with them. One of the big issues facing Summit Pacific is implementing an integrated electronic records system, which could carry a $3 million price tag, Merrill told the commissioners. Some larger hospitals already have an electronic records system in place that could be used by the Elma hospital and could make it worthwhile to team up. If the hospital doesn’t have electronic records in place by 2014, they’ll be financially penalized, Merrill told the commissioners.
“What is an affiliation going to give us that we could get that we don’t really have already?” mused Hospital Commissioner Chad Searls. “I feel like we’re Invader Zim and we should help take over the world, not wait to be taken over.”
Last month, Summit Pacific approved a partnership with Mason General Hospital in Shelton to hire a human resources manager. The position will work three days in Shelton and two days in Elma. Hospital Commissioner Louie Figueroa noted he really appreciated the way that partnership was put in place.
CEO Renée Jensen said similar hiring arrangements could be done to bring other positions to the hospitals. For instance, Summit Pacific doesn’t have a demand for an oncology program, but, it might make sense to have a specialist on hand occasionally.
Affiliations and partnerships may also help the hospital with staff recruitment and retention. The hospital recently lost its lab manager, for instance, and Jensen has taken on the role. She said it took a full year to fill the position the last time it became vacant.
Merrill says it’s a guessing game if any of the larger hospitals would be interested in joining up with Summit Pacific, given how new the hospital is and how much room there still is for the hospital to grow.
“You may have very little to offer a larger hospital system,” Merrill said. “You may only get one or two responses. The more you have to offer a partner, the more the partner will have to offer you.”
“We agree that maybe this isn’t the best time to form an affiliation but by sending out an RFI it sends out a pulse on the market,” Jensen told the board. “Maybe we don’t do a specific strategic partnership, but maybe hospital xyz has a service to provide to us. Even though we didn’t think we were going to go that way, let’s test the waters. We may have a partner come back to see that they can fill a need that we didn’t expect. …
“It might be more interesting because MultiCare affiliated with Grays Harbor Community Hospital,” Jensen noted. “They might be interested in our marketshare.”
Merrill notes that because Summit Pacific is a designated critical access hospital, it will be insulated slightly by some of the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
It took more than two years for Grays Harbor Community Hospital to affiliate with MultiCare. Jensen said if they look at it now, maybe it’ll make sense to do an affiliation in a couple years when Summit Pacific is bigger.
“Since we’re a public hospital district where does the public voice come into this?” Figueroa asked. “What have other public hospital districts done?”
Jensen said no public vote would be required, just an action by the commissioners, who are elected by the public. Three of them are on the ballot this November.
“You have to have community engagement, community meetings,” Jensen said. “Some hospital districts have had a gazillion meetings.”
“I think we’re going to just test the waters, take the info and bring it back so the public can see it and if it’s appropriate then we can go the next step,” Board Chairman Brent Meldrum told his fellow board members.
Board members didn’t make any decisions, but an action item will be added to a future agenda, Jensen said.


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Netherlands Softball Team off to Canada with 20 players
SCHIPHOL / HAARLEMMERMEER (Neth.) -
The players, coaches and supporting staff of the Netherlands Softball Team ensembled on Schiphol International Airport today (Wednesday, June 15) to start their journey to Canada.
There, the National Team will participate in the Women's International Pool of the 26th edition of the Canada Cup Women's International Softball Championship.
From Schiphol, the team first flies to Toronto.
There, in three neighboring cities, the Orange-squad will play four exhibition games against the National Team of Canada on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (double-header).
The team then travels from Toronto to the west-coast of Canada, where it will play its first game of the Canada Cup on Monday in Surrey.
The Canada Cup is an annual tournament that was first organized in 1993 by the Canadian Amateur Sport Society.
Following the announcement that softball was to be part of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta (USA), the tournament was created and became one of the biggest and leading internationals events in the world.
Through the years, many club-teams from Canada, the USA and Japan have participated, but later, more and more National Teams also joined the field of participants.
As the tournament became bigger, it was divided into several divisions, Women's International, Futures Select (Under-19), Futures Gold (Under-19), Showcase Select (16-Under) and Showcase Gold (16-Under).
In March, the organizers of the event gave the green light and announced that the tournament will be played again this year after the previous two editions were cancelled due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
This year, the National Teams of Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei, the Czech Republic, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Korea and USA will participate in the Canada Cup.
In the upcoming tournament, the Netherlands will play in the Black Pool in the preliminary round, together with Canada, Mexico, the Philippines, the Aussie Spirit Development Team (Australia) and Calahoo Erins (Canada).
The remaining five National Teams will begin in the Red Pool and will be joined by T.C. Colorado (USA).
On Monday, June 20, the Netherlands plays its first game against Mexico.
The next day, the Orange-squad will play a double-header and meets the Philippines and the Aussie Spirit Development Team.
On the third day of the tournament, the Netherlands plays against Canada following the Parade of Athletes in which all participating teams will be introduced.
The team then closes the preliminary round on Thursday against Calahoo Erins.
The following day, the Play-Off Round begins, which ends with the all-deciding Final on Sunday, June 26.
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Netherlands Team Head Coach Ferenc Jongejan compiled a roster of twenty players for the trip to Canada.
That roster was officially announced on Tuesday (June 14), only one day before departure.
Three players on the roster will make their international debut, catchers Charlotte Drijvers and Lorraine Kieft and infielder Sterre den Duijn.
Drijvers already played in some exhibition games since 2018 and has been the bullpen-catcher during three international tournaments.
Den Duijn played in an exhibition game in 2019 and Kieft made her debut earlier this year in an exhibition game.
But the Canada Cup is the first international tournament for which they are on the official team-roster.
Also on the roster are three players who have been injured this season.
Maxime van Dalen and Suka Van Gurp (both Sparks Haarlem) started the season on the injured list.
Van Dalen played in her first game on May 7, Van Gurp made her comeback on June 4.
Eva Voortman (Neptunus) recently missed some games due to an injury, but also played on June 4.
So far this year, the Netherlands Team played two exhibition games against men softball-teams.
On May 18, the team won 14-12 against Vlaardingen Holy and on June 1, the team lost 8-7 against Red Lions.
A scheduled game against DVH on June 8 rained out.
The roster looks as follows:
Lisa Hop (Olympia Haarlem), Marjolein Merkx (Roef!), Lindsey Meadows (Tex Town Tigers), Rebecca Soumeru (Sparks Haarlem) and Eva Voortman (Neptunus).
Charlotte Drijvers (Roef!), Lorraine Kieft (Sparks Haarlem), Dinet Oosting and Laura Wissink (both Tex Town Tigers).
Damishah Charles (Amsterdam Pirates), Lizzie Clarijs, Britt Vonk (both Tex Town Tigers), Maxime van Dalen, Suka Van Gurp (both Sparks Haarlem), Sterre den Duijn (Roef!) and MariŽlle Vleugels (Olympia Haarlem).
Jessie van Aalst, Brenda Beers, Cindy van der Zanden (all Olympia Haarlem) and Annemiek Jansen (Tex Town Tigers).
Ferenc Jongejan (Head Coach), Saskia Kosterink (Bench Coach), Robert Boersma (1B Coach) and Tjerk Smeets (Hitting Coach).
Bas Besselink (Physical Therapist), Sanne Bolhuis (Team Manager) and Gonny Farley (Performance-expert).

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Sheep Fair Committee calls on local people to support Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance
The Corby Glen Sheep Fair Committee has called on local people to join them in supporting The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance (LNAACT).
The Committee is pleased to announce that the clay pigeon shoot at the 2019 Sheep Fair Event raised £700 for the LNAACT but wants to get more people involved and donating to a service that saves many lives in the region every year.
Event Organiser Alan Bontoft said, “It is amazing that even after all the years that this has been running, people are still willing to participate with this and are still donating to this brilliant cause.
“I’d like to thank all those who came to the shoot – participants, volunteers and sponsors alike. Unfortunately due to the year that has passed there just isn't the time to arrange everything that is required for the 2021 Clay Shoot, for which we are truly sorry, but we hope to bring this back bigger and better for 2022 .”
About The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance
1. The air ambulance is based at RAF Waddington, South of Lincoln.
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They are prepared basically from bengal gram/chickpeas in general.Chickpeas are an excellent source of Fiber and Folic acid.And as like anyother dal's its a rich source of protein's and minerals.Chickpeas contain both soluble and insoluble fiber,which help's in controlling the cholesterol levels.I got these information's while surfing about chickpeas.
There are different ways in preparing this vada,some may add cinnamon,garlic.Usually i used to make this vada including the above said materials.But this is something different.I got to know about this vada through my neighborhood aunty,she makes it excellent.I have tasted her vada's. Only with little ingredients she makes wonder.I got this recipe from her,and i have tried to replicate her version.If you are interested with this recipe,you can make a try.
IngredientsBengal Gram - 1 Cup
Big Onion (Chopped) - 1no
Green Chillies(Chopped) -1no
Dry Red Chillies - 1 or 2
Saunf - 1/2 tsp
Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves (Chopped)- few
Coriander Leaves(Chopped) - few (Optional)
Salt - as reqd
- Take the bengal gram and soak in water for about 2 - 3 hours.If you want crunchy soak only for this duration,not more than that.After 2-3 hours ,drain the water in a collander.Let it completly drain for atleast 20 minutes.Meanwhile ,in a mixer add the dry red chillies and saunf,jeera and give a dry run.Then add the drained chickpeas/bengal gram.Take only about 5 to 6 Tablespoon of bengal gram at a time,i mean in batches,and grind it coarsely.
- Once coarsely ground,take out the mixture and place in a bowl.Similarly add the remaining bengal gram and grind it.And add to the bowl.Then add the chopped onions,green chillies,and curry leaves and salt and give a mix.
- Ensure that the salt is evenly spread.Place a kadai,add oil let it heat.Take small balls out of the vada batter and ,roll it to the shape of a ball and gently press with your palms,its the shape of these vada's,When the oil is hot to fry the vada's ,add these shaped vada's.Fry them in Medium flame.
- Donot keep the flame too high,else the inner portion wont get cooked.So ensure you maintain proper temperature to get golden colored vada's.Once the vada's get their color,remove from the oil and keep them in tissue paper,to remove the excess oil.Similarly do for the remaining vada's.
- Its ready now.You can have it as your evening snack ,serve with white coconut chutney.Also it serves as your side dish for all variety rices,morkuzhambu,and even for your ven-pongal.
This recipe goes to Vegan Thursdays...This is my first post for Vegan Thursdays hosted by Priya Suresh,i'm happy to do a post for Vegan Thursday(VT),Thanks Priya akka.

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