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  Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation. This premier edition of the report provides a deep-dive analysis of the current Chinese space ecosystem and future expected e ... read more |
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Two Koreas connect DMZ road across border: SeoulSeoul (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 North and South Korea have connected a road across their shared border for the first time in 14 years, Seoul's defence ministry said Thursday in the latest reconciliation gesture between the neighbours. ... more 
US, South Korea scale back military exerciseWashington (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 The United States and South Korea have scaled down an annual joint military exercise scheduled for the spring of 2019 to facilitate nuclear talks with North Korea, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday. ... more 
Iran says no trust in Trump's US for new nuclear talksRome (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 Iran sees no point in fresh nuclear talks with the US without guarantees it will not renege on any deal made, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday. ... more  
Army scientists revolutionize cybersecurity through quantum researchAdelphi MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 Scientists at the RDECOM Research Laboratory, the Army's corporate research laboratory (ARL) have found a novel way to safeguard quantum information during transmission, opening the door for more se ... more |
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Indebted Maldives sending envoy to ChinaMal�, Maldives (AFP) Nov 21, 2018 The Maldives foreign minister will visit Beijing before the end of 2018, officials said Wednesday, likely seeking to renegotiate the archipelago's Chinese debt. ... more  
Microlaunchers: new ways to access spaceParis (ESA) Nov 19, 2018 Access to space was in the spotlight at this week's F event which followed an ESA-hosted workshop on Europe's emerging microlaunch services held in Paris, France for industry, investors and institut ... more  
China launches twin BeiDou navigation satellitesXichang (XNA) Nov 20, 2018 China sent two new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 2:07 a.m. M ... more  
Denmark suspends arms sales to Saudi over Khashoggi murderCopenhagen (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 Denmark on Thursday suspended arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the second country to do so after Germany. ... more  
US carrier visits Hong Kong amid heightened China tensionsHong Kong (AFP) Nov 21, 2018 An American warship and carrier strike group visited Hong Kong Wednesday in a move seen as a conciliatory gesture by China ahead of next week's crunch meeting between the global superpowers' presidents. ... more |
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 After years of silence, music fills streets of Iraq's Mosul  
Heavy rains unearth Iraqi mines in Kuwaiti desertKuwait City (AFP) Nov 21, 2018 Unprecedented heavy rains which recently lashed Kuwait unearthed dozens of land mines planted by Iraqi troops during their 1990-91 occupation, disrupting the emirate's popular desert camping season, officials said Wednesday. ... more  |
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US puts aide to IS leader Baghdadi on terror blacklistWashington (AFP) Nov 20, 2018 The United States on Tuesday put a confidant of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, on its terror blacklist. ... more 
Iraq removes blast walls around Green Zone for partial reopeningBaghdad (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 Iraqi authorities began removing cement walls surrounding Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday in preparation for a partial reopening of the high-security enclave, an Iraqi official and AFP correspondents said. ... more 
Unemployment, instability 'terror incubators': Iraq presidentRome (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 Unemployment and conflicts that displace millions in the Middle East are "incubators" for terrorism and leads to illegal migration around the world, Iraq's President Barham Salih warned a conference in Italy on Thursday. ... more  
Amnesty launches drive to track impact of US strikesBeirut (AFP) Nov 21, 2018 Amnesty International on Wednesday launched a crowdsourcing data project using satellite imagery to assess damage from US-led coalition air strikes last year on the Syrian city of Raqa. ... more  
Hill Air Force Base conducts mass rapid launch exercise of F-35 fightersWashington (UPI) Nov 20, 2018 The Air Force's 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th Fighter Wing performed a combat power exercise Monday by rapidly launching dozens of F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft in close sequence from Hill Air Force Base. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018 
U.S. Army has signed a deal to supply the Romanian government with three Raytheon defense systems.
Romania will use the new Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems - the country's second order of the systems in the last two years - to deter any any threats to its borders.
The Patriot is a surface-to-air missile provides the "backbone" to the missile defense capabilities used by ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 16, 2018 
The Air Force has issued a $172 million contract for Lot 2 production of Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles from Lockheed Martin.
The order, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, provides for the production of 50 LRASMs with an estimated completion date of December 2021. The manufacturing and assembly will take place at the Lockheed Martin facility in Orlando, Fla.
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 20, 2018  DARPA has conducted a demonstration test series at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., showcasing its Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment program for autonomous drone operations in the face of enemy jamming and area-denial efforts.
In the test, deployed CODE-equipped unmanned aerial systems adapted to unexpected threats in an anti-access area denial environment. The drones shared inf ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 19, 2018 
A U.S. Navy ultra-high frequency nanosatellite designed for polar communications scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base was delayed Monday for further inspection, SpaceX said.
The delayed launch is part of the Integrated Communications Extension Capability program under the Navy's Program Executive Office Space Systems and the Space and Naval Warfare Command Systems Center ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 19, 2018 
CACI International has been awarded a $413 million contract by the Federal Acquisition Service to provide support for ground-based intelligence and communications systems within the Army's Trojan Strong program.
The five-year contract, announced Monday, is placed on behalf of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center for new and continuing wor ... more |
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 Copenhagen (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 
Denmark on Thursday suspended arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the second country to do so after Germany.
"The foreign ministry is suspending all sales of weapons and military equipment to Saudi Arabia," Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said.
"I hope that the Danish decision can create additional momentum," he added.
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 Mal�, Maldives (AFP) Nov 21, 2018  The Maldives foreign minister will visit Beijing before the end of 2018, officials said Wednesday, likely seeking to renegotiate the archipelago's Chinese debt.
China has loaned billions of dollars to countries around the Indian Ocean and beyond for infrastructure development, stoking fears of a debt trap.
The new Maldives government of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has called for a re ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles.
The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, bu ... more |
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 Rome (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 
Unemployment and conflicts that displace millions in the Middle East are "incubators" for terrorism and leads to illegal migration around the world, Iraq's President Barham Salih warned a conference in Italy on Thursday.
"Legions of unemployed youths, millions of IDPs (internally displaced people) in refugee camps, poverty and conflict are the incubators for terrorism, extremism and... for i ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 19, 2018 
Lockheed Martin Space is being awarded two contract modifications worth a combined $90.4 million for Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile production and support of already deployed systems.
The work will take place in both domestic and overseas locations and is expected to run through Sep. 2023. Navy fiscal weapons procurement and research and development funding totaling $90 ... more |
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 Palm Beach, United States (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 
US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday he was "very prepared" for a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping next week at the G20 summit in Argentina, and suggested a deal could be reached to end the trade war.
The president will meet Xi on the sidelines of the summit, which is taking place from November 30 to December 1 in Buenos Aires.
"I have been preparing for it all my l ... more |
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 Laredo, United States (AFP) Nov 19, 2018 
They started work in the cool of the morning and moved quickly, uncoiling reel after reel of vicious-looking fencing and tying it with barbed wire to green poles hammered into the ground.
Over the course of three days, a gleaming, shoulders-high barrier of concertina-wire emerged like a silver snake along a lush riverbank, stretching as far as the eye could see.
This was the work of 100 ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
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 Manila (AFP) Nov 20, 2018 
Philippine Twitter and Facebook feeds were flooded Tuesday with Winnie the Pooh memes in a winking expression of anti-China sentiment stirred by President Xi Jinping's state visit to Manila.
The self-described "bear of very little brain" has been used in the past on social media to poke fun at portly Xi, a joke that has drawn crackdowns from Beijing's censors.
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 The Hague (AFP) Nov 20, 2018 
Russia and China lost an acrimonious bid on Tuesday to stall the global chemical warfare watchdog's new powers to attribute blame for attacks like those in Syria.
After a bitter war of words, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons voted against Moscow and Beijing's attempt to challenge a June decision to grant the body the new finger-pointing ability.
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a nine month, $25.5 million contract extension to continue development of its Low Power Laser Demonstrator (LPLD) missile interceptor concept. This program, awarded Aug. 31, builds on a 2017 contract to develop an initial LPLD concept.
Lockheed Martin's LPLD concept consists of a fiber laser system on a high-performing, high-altitude airbo ... more |
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