Argo

• Three more customers are contracted with Astrolab but intend to release details of their payloads at a future date, closer to launch.
• Collectively, these eight contracts are valued at more than $160 million.
• “Our entire Astrolab team is excited to welcome these businesses to Mission 1,” said Jaret Matthews, CEO and Founder, Astrolab.
• "We are very excited to team up with Astrolab for our mission LITTLE PRINCE,” said Barbara Belvisi, founder and CEO, Interstellar Lab.

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• HIGH POINT, N.C., Oct. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Fraud Solutions (AFS), a leading provider of real-time deposit fraud detection solutions, is thrilled to announce its strategic partnership with ARGO, an industry leader in technology solutions for the financial services and healthcare sectors.
• The collaboration will integrate AFS' TrueChecks®, the industry's premier check fraud database, into ARGO's OASIS™ (Optimized Assessment of Suspicious Items) Fraud Prevention Suite.
• The urgency of this partnership is underscored by recent alarming statistics about the prevalence of check fraud.
• According to data from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FCEN), a unit of the U.S. Treasury Department, check fraud has tripled since pre-pandemic levels.

• Its much denser atmosphere enables a greenhouse effect on steroids, with surface temperatures approaching 500°C.
• We have managed to land a camera on the surface of Venus, with the Soviet space probe Venera 9 in 1975.
• Like the “Earth rise” image captured during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, this again proved the power of visual imagery.

Direct observations

• But as powerful and all-encompassing as these observations are, we still make surprise discoveries, such as vent systems on the seafloor and life in under-ice cavities.
• This is why we need to continue exploring and ramp up our capacity to measure the oceans directly.
• Nowhere is this more true than in the Southern Ocean, the connector of all oceans.

Fostering collaboration

• While it is not quite Venus in terms of difficulty, measurements have to target and prioritise the major science questions.
• Earlier this year, more than 300 researchers gathered for the first Southern Ocean Observing Symposium in Hobart to express their growing concern.

The risks of the unknown

• It isn’t cheap to track changes in such a remote location.
• Sending ships and deploying robust instrumentation, and then retrieving the gear and data, all adds up.
• The lack of direct observations is one reason we continue to be surprised by changes in the region.