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DARPA is developing a robotic spacecraft designed to service and repair satellites in geosynchronous orbit, some 35,000 kilometers above Earth. The effort, covered by IEEE Spectrum, would allow maintenance of aging communications and military satellites that are otherwise unreachable after launch. It marks a step toward routine robotic servicing in the most valuable and crowded orbital region.

A motorcyclist was seriously injured in an accident on the road between Darp and Havelte in Drenthe, the Netherlands. Regional broadcaster RTV Drenthe reported the crash as part of a series of accidents in the Havelte area. Emergency services attended the scene, and the incident was picked up in live 112 emergency news coverage for Drenthe and Groningen.

DARPA has selected Xint to apply artificial intelligence to securing military messaging applications. The defense research agency's move points to growing interest in hardening communications used by armed forces against interception and tampering. Details on the program scope and funding were not provided in initial coverage, but the selection places Xint among contractors working on next-generation secure communications for the US military.