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It recently designed and launched its first Marauder vessel in under a year and will produce it in a Louisiana shipyard, in which it has invested $300 million to expand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

In the email sent to those affected, Carter said, after detecting the attack, the university "immediately took the affected systems offline to contain the incident and launched a comprehensive investigation".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

FCAS, launched in 2017 by France and Germany and joined by Spain in 2019, had been considered a flagship project of European defence cooperation.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

The company invited TV crews to come to its New York headquarters so it could show off its surveillance and enforcement systems, and it launched an ad campaign that focused on banning insider trading.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Soviet rocket scientists had just launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, a 184-pound aluminum sphere that was orbiting Earth every ninety-six minutes at 18,000 miles per hour.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin