Aviano AB, Italy, has a new $36.9 million hospital that opened to visitors Tuesday, reports Stars and Stripes. The 18-bed hospital, whose staff actually has been treating patients since the beginning of the month, took over the space allocated to the base’s old clinic.
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.