InSight Mars Lander Solar Array Testing | NASA
NASA's InSight, the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is more than a Mars mission—it is a terrestrial planet explorer that will address one of the most fundamental issues of planetary and solar system science—understanding the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system (including Earth) more than four billion years ago.

InSight, the first planetary mission to take off from the West Coast, is targeted to launch Saturday, May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket.

In this Jan. 23, 2018 photo, InSight is in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars. Scientists commanded to deploy its solar arrays, to test and verify the exact process that the spacecraft will use on the surface of the Red Planet. During the test, engineers and technicians evaluated whether the solar arrays fully deployed and conducted an illumination test to confirm that the solar cells were collecting power.

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Image Date: January 23, 2018
Release Date: May 1, 2018

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NASA Mars InSight Lander News Briefing | JPL
Liftoff Scheduled for May 5th. Landing November 2018.
Digging Deep into Mars
Dig deep into the workings of Earth’s next trip to the Red Planet. InSight, scheduled to launch in May 2018, will be the first NASA mission to observe the deep interior of Mars and learn about the history and evolution of rocky planets. See the instruments InSight will bring to Mars, including the first seismometer ever taken to the surface of another planet.

For more info on InSight, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight
Original air date: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018

Speaker: Troy Lee Hudson
Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Release Date: February 22, 2018

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NASA Mars Insight Lander Prepared for Launch
Liftoff Scheduled for May 5th. Landing November 2018.
Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003 on July 27th.

At Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a crane is used to lift NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, Mars lander for mating atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. InSight will be the first mission to look deep beneath the Martian surface. It will study the planet's interior by measuring its heat output and listen for marsquakes. The spacecraft will use the seismic waves generated by marsquakes to develop a map of the planet’s deep interior. The resulting insight into Mars’ formation will provide a better understanding of how other rocky planets, including Earth, were created. InSight is scheduled for liftoff May 5, 2018.

For more about the mission, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight

Credit: USAF 30th Space Wing
Image Date: April 23, 2018

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Lockheed Martin Patents Nuclear Fusion-Powered Fighter Jet | Zero Hedge

(Zero Hedge) Lockheed Martin has secretly been developing a game-changing compact nuclear fusion reactor that could potentially fit into a fighter jet. The Maryland-based defense contractor recently obtained a patent associated with its design for a fully compact fusion reactor, after filing for the patent in 2014.

https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2018/04/lockheed-martin-patents-nuclear-fusion-powered-fighter-jet-zero-hedge/

The Story of How the F-35 Might Have Some Russian "Blood"
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LUCIFER'S NUCLEAR FISSION! Today, YESHUA pointed me to the issue of: Nuclear Fission in the context of Lucifer's manipulation of Uranium and Platinum, as he attempts to destroy the earth, before the "Second Coming". Read Rev. 12:12. Further citing (GC) The Great Controversy p. 589 par. 1: "[Lucifer] Satan delights in war, for it excites the worst passions of the soul and then sweeps into eternity its victims steeped in vice and blood. It is his object to incite the nations to war against one another, for he can thus divert the minds of the people from the work of preparation to stand in the day of God." #Scotus: 13-10069, 12m125 #SundayRestBILL #MandatorySundayObservanceACT #AdventistWHEAT #Vatican #UsaPapalTheocracy #Jesuits #PopeFrancis #ConstitutionalCrisis #LockheedMartin #WW3 #BallisticMISSILE #NuclearWAR #Armageddon #Russia #NorthKorea #QatarHolding #BerkshireHathawayHolding #DayofDeclaration #PlanetaryPentecost #GODSCharacterIsOnTrial #SETTLEDVindication #SECONDCOMING #CrownYESHUA

IS A NUCLEAR WAR PRESENT? By faith, yet with much grief (since we are at the close of this world's history) YESHUA is pointing me to Nuclear War. Citing (GC) The Great Controversy p. 589 par. 1: "[Lucifer] Satan delights in war, for it excites the worst passions of the soul and then sweeps into eternity its victims steeped in vice and blood. It is his object to incite the nations to war against one another, for he can thus divert the minds of the people from the work of preparation to stand in the day of God." #Scotus: 13-10069, 12m125 #SundayRestBILL #MandatorySundayObservanceACT #AdventistWHEAT #Vatican #UsaPapalTheocracy #Jesuits #PopeFrancis #ConstitutionalCrisis #LockheedMartin #WW3 #BallisticMISSILE #NuclearWAR #Armageddon #Russia #NorthKorea #QatarHolding #BerkshireHathawayHolding #DayofDeclaration #PlanetaryPentecost #GODSCharacterIsOnTrial #SETTLEDVindication #SECONDCOMING #CrownYESHUA

When US President Donald #Trump fired a barrage of Tomahawk missiles at Syrian government targets last week, it was a good day for defense contractors, at least.

In the aftermath of the strike, which Trump claimed was in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack by the Syrian government, stocks in Tomahawk missile manufacturer Raytheon surged. Raytheon stock has climbed more than 18 percent in 2018 so far. In fact, stocks in defense companies have been climbing in general since Trump entered office promising “historic” increases in military spending.

Almost a year ago to the day, Trump delivered another bump to the defense companies after attacking Syrian government positions for the first time – also in response to an alleged chemical attack, evidence for which remains in question.

After that strike Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics also rose, gaining nearly $5 billion in market value when trading began the next day, even as the wider market slumped.

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Anybody who cheered Trump’s bombing of Syria as a means to help the Syrian people should know this bombing accomplished absolutely nothing. If you wanted to help Syrians, you should’ve called for an end to the war years ago.

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The US and its allies dropped over 100 bombs on Syria, including 19 Lockheed JASSM missiles which cost around $1 million each, and 57 #Raytheon #, which cost around $1.9 million each.

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#Syria Strike Puts #LockheedMartin's Stealthy New Missile to Test

The joint U.S., French and U.K. missile barrage on Syria this week included the battlefield debut of a stealthy new Lockheed Martin Corp. air-launched cruise missile produced as part of a $4.6...
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Later, when Trump appointed the famously militaristic John Bolton as his national security adviser in March, guess what happened? Shares in US energy and defense companies surged yet again. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this one out: war is profitable. The more missiles Trump fires, the more money these companies make.
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"The Bolton Trade" -- For real. Defense and energy stocks rally as the rest of the stock market slips. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/-bolton-trade-triggers-rallies-in-defense-energy-etf-watch … @SarahPonczek via @markets

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But where do the think tanks come in?

There is a pervasive myth that Washington DC ‘think tanks’ are neutral and unbiased players in foreign policy analysis. But where do these centers for foreign policy ‘analysis’ get their money from? You guessed it: defense companies.

There are a few think tanks which dominate in American foreign policy debates. They include the Center For European Policy Analysis (CEPA), the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund (GMF), the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation. All five of them receive generous donations from Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. Three of them also receive funding from the Boeing Company.


Corporations like Exxon Mobil, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, and Bell Helicopter are also big donors to think tanks. Bell Helicopter is a funder of CEPA, while Exxon funds Brookings, GMF and the Atlantic Council. BAE Systems donates to CEPA, while Northrop Grumman gives to the Atlantic Council. This is not to even mention the money they get directly from US government departments and NATO, which also helps explain their consistently anti-Russian analysis.


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another example: If one searches for data on charter schools, 28 out of first 29 hits on google, the data originated from a Gates-funded org


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Think tanks, experts, increasingly academics- pop up in media presented as neutral arbiters of truth when they arent http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/us/politics/think-tanks-research-and-corporate-lobbying.html …

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The new $100 million office of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington.
How Think Tanks Amplify Corporate America’s Influence
Think tanks are seen as independent, but their scholars often push donors’ agendas, amplifying a culture of corporate influence in Washington.

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Nonetheless, these think tanks enjoy an undue air of independence. Experts who work for these defense contractor-funded institutes are quoted frequently in mainstream newspapers and invited on mainstream channels, where they are presented as independent voices. But those independent voices somehow always seem to be in favor of policies that benefit weapons manufacturers.


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As they did with Libya and Iraq before that. Many major think tanks serve to pave the way for US military aggressionhttps://twitter.com/abuaardvark/status/906510405467607045 …


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The Atlantic Council—which is funded by US, UK, NATO, UAE, arms/oil companies—moves its attention from regime change in Syria back to Iran pic.twitter.com/7Yjl1ThxFu

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War profiteers are filling their coffers in return for ‘analysis’ which promotes military action and massively inflates the threat posed to America by countries like Russia, for example.

A glance at the Twitter feed of CEPA reveals almost obsession-like focus on the so-called threat from Russia. In 2016, the Lockheed and BAE Systems-funded think tank suggested in a report on information warfare that people who have “fallen victim to Kremlin propaganda” should be “deradicalized” in special programs.


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Remember when Lockheed & BAE-funded @CEPA suggested "deradicalization" programs for people who don't agree with them https://cepa.ecms.pl/files/?id_plik=2706 …

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The NATO-funded Atlantic Council has consistently lobbied for regime change in Syria. In the days surrounding Trump’s military actions against Syria last week, the Atlantic Council published multiple pieces of analysis and interviews with a single theme: that Trump did not or would not go far enough with one night of strikes. Earlier, when the alleged chemical attack took place, the think tank argued that Syrian President Bashar Assad was “indulging an addiction” and called on the US to take new military action against him. For some reason, diplomacy does not seem to be high on the Atlantic Council’s agenda.


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.@WashInstitute is an AIPAC spin off and The Atlantic Coucil is funded by the State Dept, oil companies & weapons manufacturers.


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Let's take a look at who funds the objective, independent Atlantic Council (shocker: they support regime change) pic.twitter.com/ONysgYZ1ec

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It seems the more money defense contractors throw at think tanks, the more those think tanks will argue in favor of the military policies that will make those companies the most money. It’s a vicious cycle, but one which doesn’t take much think tank-style ‘analysis’ to figure out.

The sad thing for the think tank lobbyists, is that the money they make calling for war is nothing in comparison to the money Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing and the rest make from it. Maybe they should ask for a raise.

Danielle Ryan for RT.