According to a new USA Today/Gallup Poll, the No. 1 issue for Americans as we head into this year’s Congressional election is—you guessed it—the situation in Iraq. It trumps corruption in government, terrorism, and the economy. The graph (click on the box) shows the percentage that views each of 11 issues as “extremely important.”
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.