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  Washington (AFP) March 13, 2018 President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants the US military to create a new "space force," adding to the Pentagon's current ground, navy and air forces. Trump told troops at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station near San Diego that the new group would be able to encapsulate the "tremendous amount" of work the military and government are doing in space-related defense. "My new national strategy for space recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea," Trump said. ... read more |
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Intelsat EpicNG helping redefine capabilities of airborne applicationsMcLean VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 Our first Intelsat EpicNG satellite has been in space a little over two years now, and we have launched four more since then. With five of these high-throughput satellites (HTS) in orbit and being u ... more 
Studies prove superior performance of HTS for government customersMcLean VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 High-throughput satellite (HTS) constellations have quickly become transformative technology for satellite communications, far surpassing the bandwidth speed and throughput possible with existing sa ... more 
Spaceflight Industries finalizes alliance to manufacture geospatial smallsats at scaleWashington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 At the Satellite 2018 conference, The Space Alliance formed by Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo 33%) and Telespazio (Leonardo 67%, Thales 33%) announced it has officially taken a minority s ... more  
Tillerson sacking spells doom for Iran nuclear dealWashington (AFP) March 13, 2018 President Donald Trump's sacking of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could sound the death knell for the Iran nuclear deal and further strain US ties with key European allies. ... more |
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Erdogan slams NATO for failing to back Syria campaignIstanbul (AFP) March 11, 2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday angrily lashed out at NATO, accusing the Western military alliance of failing to back Turkey's campaign against Kurdish militia in Syria. ... more 
Israeli police wrestle ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting army draftBnei Brak, Israel (AFP) March 12, 2018 Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked a main artery near Tel Aviv on Monday, Israeli police said, in the latest protest against compulsory military service. ... more  
Iraq's Sadr and communist sickle join forces for electionBaghdad (AFP) March 11, 2018 Supporters of a black-turbaned Shiite cleric are seeing red in the runup to Iraq's May elections thanks to an unprecedented alliance with the once-powerful communist party. ... more  
Baghdad ends air blockade of Iraqi KurdistanBaghdad (AFP) March 13, 2018 Iraqi authorities said Tuesday they were lifting a nearly six-month air blockade imposed on Iraqi Kurdistan in response to its holding of an independence referendum. ... more 
Orbital ATK to provide ISR aircraft to Afghan Air ForceWashington (UPI) Mar 9, 2018 Orbital ATK has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for services in support of aircraft for the Afghanistan Air Force. ... more |
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 Mattis in Kabul, says elements in Taliban open to peace talks 
25 killed in IS attacks in northern Iraq: officialsKirkuk, Iraq (AFP) March 12, 2018 At least 25 civilians and members of government forces have been killed in northern Iraq since late Sunday in attacks by the Islamic State group, officials said. ... more  |
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Iraq PM security detail commander killed in armed clashSamarra, Iraq (AFP) March 13, 2018 A general charged with ensuring security ahead of a visit by Iraq's prime minister was killed Tuesday in a shoot out with militia fighters, officials said. ... more  
Thirty years on, gas attack still poisons Iraq's HalabjaHalabja, Iraq (AFP) March 14, 2018 As a teenager Kamal Jalal saw two of his sisters killed when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's forces launched a gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja. ... more 
Colombia's Santos orders resumption of talks with ELN rebelsBogota (AFP) March 12, 2018 Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos ordered the resumption of peace talks with ELN rebels Monday, aiming to conclude an historic deal before leaving office in August, despite election gains for hardliners who reject his policies. ... more  
Lockheed Martin delivers first of 3 radars to Latvian militaryWashington (UPI) Mar 11, 2018 Lockheed Martin has delivered the first of three radars to Latvia, the company said Monday, calling it "a major step forward in strengthening [the country's] national defense." ... more  
GMV leads a project for application of EGNOS to maritime safetyMadrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 Satellite navigation systems (GNSS) have now been widely taken up by the public at large as a geolocation and guidance service, but the technology developed to date has a much wider potential use ra ... more |
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 Schrobenhausen, Germany (SPX) Mar 12, 2018  MBDA Deutschland and Lockheed Martin have announced a new joint venture to pursue the next generation Integrated Air and Missile Defense System, "TLVS," for the German Bundeswehr. The joint venture is expected to become the prime contractor for the new system, which is currently being negotiated with Germany's procurement office for the Bundeswehr, BAAINBw.
Gregory Kee of Lockheed Martin a ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) March 11, 2018 
Russia said Sunday it successfully launched a hypersonic missile which President Vladimir Putin called "an ideal weapon" as he unveiled a new array of next-generation arms earlier this month.
The high-precision Kinzhal (Dagger) missile was launched from a MiG-31 supersonic interceptor jet that took off from an airfield in the South Military District in Russia's southwest, the defence ministr ... more |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
A recent scientific expedition to the Danger Islands, a remote group of tiny islands along eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, used new technologies to discover and survey a breeding colony of over one and a half million penguins.
Michael Polito, assistant professor in the department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU, and co-authors detail their findings in a study published ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
Our first Intelsat EpicNG satellite has been in space a little over two years now, and we have launched four more since then. With five of these high-throughput satellites (HTS) in orbit and being used by our customers, we have gained quite a bit of both test data and real-world experience demonstrating the capabilities and versatility of the EpicNG technology.
We recently published a whit ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed the country's new state arms procurement program, which includes, among other things, robotics, intelligence systems, UAVs and precision ammunition.
"Yes, the document has been signed by the president," Rogozin said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, when asked a relevant ques ... more |
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 Stockholm (AFP) March 11, 2018  Weapons imports to the Middle East and Asia have boomed over the past five years, fuelled by war and tensions in those regions, a new study showed on Monday.
In the period between 2013 and 2017, arms imports to the conflict-ridden Middle East more than doubled, jumping by 103 percent compared with the previous five-year period, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) cal ... more |
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 London (AFP) March 13, 2018 
Britain will hold new emergency talks Tuesday into the brazen nerve agent poisoning of a Russian former double agent on its soil, after the US and NATO backed London in implicating Moscow in the assassination attempt.
As diplomatic tensions soar, Russia has denied accusations of its involvement in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in southwest England on March 4.
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 Saint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Researchers first developed a three-dimensional dynamic model of an interaction between light and nanoparticles. They used a supercomputer with graphic accelerators for calculations. Results showed that silicon particles exposed to short intense laser pulses lose their symmetry temporarily.
Their optical properties become strongly heterogeneous. Such a change in properties depends on parti ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 11, 2018 
Supporters of a black-turbaned Shiite cleric are seeing red in the runup to Iraq's May elections thanks to an unprecedented alliance with the once-powerful communist party.
Populist preacher Moqtada Sadr has defied his clerical rivals and opted to campaign for the May 12 poll alongside former enemies, Marxists who demand a secular state.
"This alliance is a first in Iraq," said Ibrahim a ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) March 12, 2018  Pyongyang has maintained a deafening silence as news that US President Donald Trump will meet its leader Kim Jong Un made global headlines - and analysts say the nuclear-armed North is keeping its powder dry, retaining room to manoeuvre.
Trump last week agreed to meet with Kim by the end of May to discuss Pyongyang's denuclearisation - which it put on the table in exchange for security gua ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 14, 2018  China's industrial output strengthened in the first two months of the year, official data showed Wednesday, led by production at state enterprises.
Output at factories and workshops expanded 7.2 percent year-on-year in January and February combined, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, beating the 6.2 percent recorded in December and the 6.2 percent forecast in a Bloomberg News surv ... more |
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 Koriyama, Japan (AFP) March 11, 2018  Beneath the elegant curves of the roof on the Seirinji Buddhist temple in Japan's Fukushima region hangs an unlikely adornment: a Geiger counter collecting real-time radiation readings.
The machine is sending data to Safecast, an NGO born after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster that says it has now built the world's largest radiation dataset, thanks to the efforts of citizen scientis ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
China is getting closer to a finalized design for its next-generation X-ray observatory.
As reported by Science this week, scientists at China's National Space Science Center are honing in on the final iteration of their design for the X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry, eXTP, satellite.
The eXTP mission team plans to complete a prototype by 2022, with a goal to launch the satellite in ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2018  China's rubber-stamp parliament is set Sunday to hand President Xi Jinping free rein to rule the rising Asian superpower indefinitely, with potential abstentions offering the only suspense in the historic vote.
The National People's Congress is all but certain to approve a constitutional amendment that has stunned many in China, sparking an unusual bout of criticism that censors have scrambl ... more |
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 Halabja, Iraq (AFP) March 14, 2018  As a teenager Kamal Jalal saw two of his sisters killed when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's forces launched a gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja.
Now three decades later at the age of 47 this Iraqi Kurd remains reliant on a machine to help him breathe - and is still waiting for compensation over a massacre that became a byword for brutality.
"The doctors told me that I lost 75 p ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the Solid State High Power Laser Weapon System Demonstrator program.
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $21.5 million under the terms of a cost-plus fixed fee contract, which is a modification to a previous award.
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