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Image 1 — Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!
Image 2 — Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!
Image 3 — Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!
Image 4 — Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!
Image 5 — Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!
Image 6 — Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!
Image 7 — Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!
Image 8 — Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!
Image 9 — Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!
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Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 7: Russia attacked Kyiv last night and bombed the shit out of it. Please help us help them!

Last night the Russian assholes hit school playgrounds, apartment buildings, businesses and ambulance depots in Kyiv, causing untold damage and suffering.

We aim to collect money for the UkraineAidOps charity which will help the people in Ukraine fight off this senseless invasion.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

This is the last day of our charity drive, so make it count!

Your donations will pay for:

  • Ground drones (UGVs) that resupply forward positions and evacuate wounded across fields no truck or pickup can survive
  • Heavy-lift transport drones for the "last mile" — moving ammo, supplies, and "Vampire" drone batteries to the line without a single soldier on the road
  • Vehicles / Pick-Ups to improve logistics near the frontline and in the rear
  • Support and energy equipment (including generators, powerstations, starlinks, drone detectors and more)"

Lets make it count for the warriors and the brave people of Ukraine who are fighting off the Russian genocidal invasion each and every day.

Spread the word and be generous if you can! Russia cannot be allowed to win.

Kind regards,

The mod team.

u/sn0r — 4 days ago
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Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 6!

Day 6 of our fundraiser for Ukraine!

From June 26th to July 3rd, we and 30 other subreddits have partnered with UkraineAidOps for a fundraising competition on Reddit.

r/BrexitMemes, r/EUnews, r/EuropeanArmy, r/EuropeanFederalists, r/EUSpace, r/eutech, r/YUROP and /r/EuropeanUnion will be representing Forum Götterfunken.

So far we've raised over 2000 Euros!

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

We aim to collect money for the UkraineAidOps charity which will pay for:

  • Ground drones (UGVs) that resupply forward positions and evacuate wounded across fields no truck or pickup can survive
  • Heavy-lift transport drones for the "last mile" — moving ammo, supplies, and "Vampire" drone batteries to the line without a single soldier on the road
  • Vehicles / Pick-Ups to improve logistics near the frontline and in the rear
  • Support and energy equipment (including generators, powerstations, starlinks, drone detectors and more)"

Lets make it count for the warriors and the brave people of Ukraine who are fighting off the Russian genocidal invasion.

Spread the word and be generous if you can! People living, working and fighting on the front line could really use your help!

Kind regards,

The mod team.

u/sn0r — 5 days ago
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Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 5!

Day 5 of our fundraiser for Ukraine!

From June 26th to July 3rd, we and 30 other subreddits have partnered with UkraineAidOps for a fundraising competition on Reddit.

r/BrexitMemes, r/EUnews, r/EuropeanArmy, r/EuropeanFederalists, r/EUSpace, r/eutech, r/YUROP and r/EuropeanUnion will be representing Forum Götterfunken.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

We aim to collect money for the UkraineAidOps charity which will pay for:

  • Ground drones (UGVs) that resupply forward positions and evacuate wounded across fields no truck or pickup can survive
  • Heavy-lift transport drones for the "last mile" — moving ammo, supplies, and "Vampire" drone batteries to the line without a single soldier on the road
  • Vehicles / Pick-Ups to improve logistics near the frontline and in the rear
  • Support and energy equipment (including generators, powerstations, starlinks, drone detectors and more)"

Lets make it count for the warriors and the brave people of Ukraine who are fighting off the Russian genocidal invasion.

So far we've raised over 1700 euros!
r/neoliberal 8064€
r/YUROP r/Europeanunion r/EUTech r/Europeanarmy r/EUSpace r/EuropeanFederalists r/EUnews r/BrexitMemes 1773€
r/kyiv r/RoshelArmor r/ModernAncientWarriors r/MilitaryVStheUnknown r/dronecombat r/loveforukraine r/Fins4UA r/UkraineInvasionVideos 1211€
r/askaliberal 837€
r/whitepeopletwitter r/2american4you r/2latinoforyou r/tankiejerk r/2mediterranean4u r/asia_irl 302€
r/credibledefense 167
r/lithuania r/taipei r/Kazakhstan 19€
r/England r/sheffield 4€

Give if you can and spread the word if you can't!

Kind regards,

The mod team.

u/CitoyenEuropeen — 6 days ago
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Satellite Connect Europe: The Continent Is Building Its Own Satellite-to-Phone Network - 5GWorldPro

At the end of February 2026, a venture that had been quietly known as “SatCo” for almost a year stepped into the open as Satellite Connect Europe. It is a joint venture between Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile, headquartered in Luxembourg, and its goal is direct: give European mobile operators a way to connect ordinary smartphones to satellites, on Europe’s own terms.

The partner list is what makes this matter. Vodafone, Orange, Telefónica, CK Hutchison and Sunrise are all engaged. Orange has gone further than a logo on a slide — it plans direct-to-device demonstrations in Romania in the second half of 2026 covering voice, SMS and data, and is studying integration of the satellite link into an Orange-managed core network, framed inside its “Trust the future” strategy. When operators of that size align on a single venture, it stops being an experiment.

What it actually is

Satellite Connect Europe is a wholesale, open-access layer. It buys exclusive European access to AST SpaceMobile’s low-earth-orbit constellation and resells direct-to-device connectivity to operators, who keep their own customers, branding and data. The technical pitch is that it extends existing 4G and 5G networks rather than replacing them, and it works on phones people already own — no special handset, no extra hardware.

The AST satellites doing the work are unusual. The Block 2 BlueBirds carry phased-array antennas around 225 square metres, large enough to form roughly 2,000 narrow beams each and cover a ground area tens of kilometres across, using the operator’s existing licensed spectrum. AST is targeting about 60 satellites in orbit by the end of 2026, with roughly 90 needed for continuous round-the-clock coverage. On the ground, the venture is building five European earth stations, with a control centre in Germany and build underway in Spain, the UK and France.

The real headline: sovereignty

After 30 years around networks, the part of this I find most telling isn’t the antenna size. It’s the deliberate emphasis on European jurisdiction. The whole architecture is designed so that network operations, data handling, lawful intercept and service control stay inside Europe rather than sitting with a non-European operator. That is a direct answer to the strategic question hanging over every operator watching Starlink’s direct-to-cell ambitions: who controls the coverage layer, and whose rules govern the traffic on it?

This is the second model now competing in Europe. One path is a global, single-operator constellation. The other is an MNO-first, sovereign wholesale layer that plugs satellite coverage into each national network as an extension of the existing PLMN. Operators across the continent are choosing, and many are hedging across both.

Why this is a skills problem, not just a procurement one

An operator can sign a wholesale agreement in an afternoon. Making the service work is the hard part, and it pulls together expertise most network teams have never had to combine:

  • 3GPP non-terrestrial network standards (Release 17, enhanced in 18 and 19) and how D2D rides standard 4G/5G radios
  • Integrating a satellite access layer into the core as another PLMN, with seamless roaming between terrestrial and satellite cells
  • Spectrum strategy and the regulatory framework that decides whether and when a service can launch in each country
  • Link budgets, beam and mobility management for satellites that never stop moving
  • Security, lawful intercept and data-sovereignty design

The operators that build this understanding now will shape Europe’s coverage maps for the next decade. The ones that don’t will buy the capability from whoever did, on someone else’s terms.

5gworldpro.com
u/doctor101 — 7 days ago
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Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 4!

Day 4 of our fundraiser for Ukraine!

From June 26th to July 3rd, we and 30 other subreddits have partnered with UkraineAidOps for a fundraising competition on Reddit.

r/BrexitMemes, r/EUnews, r/EuropeanArmy, r/EuropeanFederalists, r/EUSpace, r/eutech, r/YUROP and r/EuropeanUnion will be representing Forum Götterfunken.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

We aim to collect money for the UkraineAidOps charity which will pay for:

  • Ground drones (UGVs) that resupply forward positions and evacuate wounded across fields no truck or pickup can survive
  • Heavy-lift transport drones for the "last mile" — moving ammo, supplies, and "Vampire" drone batteries to the line without a single soldier on the road
  • Vehicles / Pick-Ups to improve logistics near the frontline and in the rear
  • Support and energy equipment (including generators, powerstations, starlinks, drone detectors and more)"

Lets make it count for the warriors and the brave people of Ukraine who are fighting off the Russian genocidal invasion.

So far we've raised over 1400 euros!
r/neoliberal 7694€
r/YUROP r/Europeanunion r/EUTech r/Europeanarmy r/EUSpace r/EuropeanFederalists r/EUnews r/BrexitMemes 1486€
r/kyiv r/RoshelArmor r/ModernAncientWarriors r/MilitaryVStheUnknown r/dronecombat r/loveforukraine r/Fins4UA r/UkraineInvasionVideos 1211€
r/askaliberal 837€
r/whitepeopletwitter r/2american4you r/2latinoforyou r/2mediterranean4u r/asia_irl 302€
r/credibledefense 139€
r/lithuania r/taipei r/Kazakhstan 19€
r/England r/sheffield 4€

Give if you can and spread the word if you can't!

Kind regards,

The mod team.

u/CitoyenEuropeen — 7 days ago
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Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 3!

Day 3 of our fundraiser for Ukraine!

From June 26th to July 3rd, we and 30 other subreddits have partnered with UkraineAidOps for a fundraising competition on Reddit.

r/BrexitMemes, r/EUnews, r/EuropeanArmy, r/EuropeanFederalists, r/EUSpace, r/eutech, r/YUROP and /r/EuropeanUnion will be representing Forum Götterfunken.

So far we've raised over 1400 euros!

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

We aim to collect money for the UkraineAidOps charity which will pay for:

  • Ground drones (UGVs) that resupply forward positions and evacuate wounded across fields no truck or pickup can survive
  • Heavy-lift transport drones for the "last mile" — moving ammo, supplies, and "Vampire" drone batteries to the line without a single soldier on the road
  • Vehicles / Pick-Ups to improve logistics near the frontline and in the rear
  • Support and energy equipment (including generators, powerstations, starlinks, drone detectors and more)"

Lets make it count for the warriors and the brave people of Ukraine who are fighting off the Russian genocidal invasion.

Give generously if you can and spread the word if you can't!

Kind regards,

The mod team.

u/sn0r — 8 days ago
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Reddit Ukraine Fundraiser - Day 2!

Day 2 of our fundraiser for Ukraine!

From June 26th to July 3rd, we and 30 other subreddits have partnered with UkraineAidOps for a fundraising competition on Reddit.

Together with r/BrexitMemes, r/EUnews, r/EuropeanArmy, r/EuropeanFederalists, r/EUSpace, r/eutech, r/YUROP, we will be representing Forum Götterfunken with the goal of raising €50000.

It's a lofty goal, but I believe we can do it!

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

We aim to collect money for the UkraineAidOps charity which will pay for:

  • Ground drones (UGVs) that resupply forward positions and evacuate wounded across fields no truck or pickup can survive
  • Heavy-lift transport drones for the "last mile" — moving ammo, supplies, and "Vampire" drone batteries to the line without a single soldier on the road
  • Vehicles / Pick-Ups to improve logistics near the frontline and in the rear
  • Support and energy equipment (including generators, powerstations, starlinks, drone detectors and more)"

Slava Ukraini and make it count for the warriors and the brave people of Ukraine who are fighting off the Russian genocidal invasion.

Give if you can and spread the word if you can't. There are special prizes for those that donate significantly!

Kind regards,

The mod team.

u/sn0r — 9 days ago
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Reddit Power For Ukraine 2026!

Welcome to our fundraiser for Ukraine!

From June 26^(th) to July 3^(rd), we and 30 other subreddits have partnered with UkraineAidOps for a multi sub fundraising competition on Reddit. We will be banding together to see who can support the Ukrainian Army the most.

Together with r/BrexitMemes, r/EUnews, r/EuropeanArmy, r/EuropeanFederalists, r/europeanunion, r/EUSpace, r/eutech, we will be representing Forum Götterfunken with the goal of raising 50,000 €.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

With the sudden buildup, and subsequent invasion by Muscovy, Ukraine's government saw it's capacity to supply their army outpaced by the sheer mass of the onslaught during the first desperate months of the war. But through the help of millions of donors, and several devoted charities, assisting where the government couldn't easily, Ukraine was able to extract a devastating toll on Putin's army.

One such charity being UkraineAidOps, directly supporting units both on and behind the frontline of every sector even within Kursk. Their goal for this event is in their own words, "to make the biggest possible impact on the battlefield. We aim to achieve this by applying these key equipment pieces:

  • Ground drones (UGVs) that resupply forward positions and evacuate wounded across fields no truck or pickup can survive
  • Heavy-lift transport drones for the "last mile" — moving ammo, supplies, and "Vampire" drone batteries to the line without a single soldier on the road
  • Vehicles / Pick-Ups to improve logistics near the frontline and in the rear
  • Support and energy equipment (including generators, powerstations, starlinks, drone detectors and more)"

Muscovy will be defeated, but that won’t happen on its own. We need your support to defend democracy, Ukraine, Europe.

r/YUROP r/whitepeopletwitter r/tankiejerk r/taipei r/sheffield r/RoshelArmor r/neoliberal r/ModernAncientWarriors r/MilitaryVStheUnknown r/loveforukraine r/lithuania r/Kazakhstan r/kyiv r/EUTech r/Europeanunion r/England r/dronecombat r/credibledefense r/askaliberal r/asia_irl r/2mediterranean4u r/2latinoforyou r/2american4you

u/CitoyenEuropeen — 10 days ago
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The Exploration Company is Recruiting for Its Nyx Crew Team in Houston - European Spaceflight

With three new vacancies, The Exploration Company appears to be signalling plans for a US development base for its Nyx Crew vehicle.

europeanspaceflight.com
u/AndrewParsonson — 7 days ago
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Ariane 64 Mission VA269 Launch from French Guiana, South America at the FR-EU SpacePort on June 17th 2026.

u/PestoBolloElemento — 13 days ago
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ESA Astronaut Tests European Spacesuit Prototype Aboard ISS

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has tested a European spacesuit prototype aboard the ISS, while a second suit completed water survival trials in Marseille.

europeanspaceflight.com
u/AndrewParsonson — 13 days ago
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OHB to Raise €510M to Boost Manufacturing Capacity and Invest in Rockets

OHB plans to raise up to €510.7 million to expand its manufacturing capacity, fund acquisitions, and support Rock Factory Augsburg.

europeanspaceflight.com
u/AndrewParsonson — 11 days ago