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They are on loading fuel as I type. This mission will carry the largest payload so far to the station and includes three spacewalks. It is the second of three missions that will launch components to complete the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo ["Hope"] laboratory. The crew will install Kibo’s large Japanese Pressurized Module and [...]

Using the UAV’s electro-optical/infrared payload, ISTAR missions have included identifying Taliban repeater stations, following insurgents from a contact back to their hideout and flying low over enemy combatants, causing them to retreat. Hermes air vehicles have flown 3,000h in Iraq and 4,000h in Afghanistan since last year, with the army saying there have been no [...]