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Firefly nears second orbital launch attempt as US forces Ukrainian founder to divest

Teslarati

Resurrected in 2017 after going bankrupt and ceasing operations the year prior, Firefly is a private launch provider based out of Austin, Texas and founded by Maxim Polyakov and former CEO Tom Markusic. and Ukraine together to make a fleet of large rockets capable of taking many satellites into orbit and, later on, missions to the moon.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. And a lot of people were asking when the book came out in 2017, “What about cyber war? And how does it relate to legal and ethical questions we have?

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