Our daily voyage around the world

🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran launched a ballistic missile attack against Israel. US officials say Iran fired ~180 missiles at Israel, who managed to intercept the majority of the attack with one reported Palestinian casualty in the West Bank. Iran’s attack came days after Israeli airstrikes killed several leaders of Iran-aligned armed groups – including Hezbollah – and occurred hours after Israel’s military confirmed a limited ground operation inside Lebanon. Following the attack, Iran’s foreign minister said his country exercised "self-defense" against Israel, and its action is concluded unless the "Israeli regime decides to invite further retaliation." Israel’s military has signaled it will retaliate against Iran.

🇨🇭🇮🇹 Switzerland and Italy are redrawing borders due to melting glaciers. Large sections of the Swiss-Italian border are defined by glaciers, but large-scale melting has caused those boundaries to shift in recent years. On Friday, Switzerland’s government approved a plan to change part of the Swiss-Italian border to account for recent glacier movements. Italy has agreed to the move in principle, but has yet to grant official approval.

🛰️ A NASA report identified concerns with an air leak at the ISS. The leak was first discovered at a small Russian part of the ISS in 2019, and has grown from a rate of ~1 lb of atmosphere/day in February to 3.7 lbs/day in April. In a new report, NASA confirmed the leak has triggered the highest level of concern on its 5x5 "risk matrix," and said, if things worsen further, it could force the permanent closure of one of Russia’s four ISS docking ports.