Area groups get funding in latest round of ARC POWER grants

FROSTBURG, Md. — Thirty organizations across Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia are among 52 receiving grants in the latest round of POWER Grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission. POWER, which stands for “Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization,” seeks to develop projects aimed at economic diversification in communitiesContinue Reading

Benchmark Space Systems to Acquire AASC’s Metal Plasma Thruster Tech as Part of Hybrid Propulsion Strategy – Parabolic Arc

The Space Economy Gets Major Tech Advancement with Hybrid Mobility Packages BURLINGTON, Vt., August 8, 2022 (Benchmark Space Systems PR) – With hybrid vehicle sales at an all-time high on Earth, Benchmark Space Systems today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC)’s electric propulsion technologies toContinue Reading

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022 – Parabolic Arc

Credit: ESA ESA Press Release In brief Our planet is surrounded by spacecraft carrying out important work to study our changing climate, deliver global communication and navigation services and help us answer important scientific questions. But their orbits are churning with deadly fragments of the past – fast-moving pieces of defunctContinue Reading

The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

In his historic March 1968 speech at Washington’s National Cathedral, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. observed that the arc of the moral universe is long but bends towards justice. America has an opportunity to accelerate this expectation by bending toward environmental justice. How can environmental justice best be advancedContinue Reading