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  Cape Canaveral AFC LF (SPX) Mar 14, 2019 A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket is in final preparations to launch the tenth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The launch is planned for March 15 at Space Launch Complex-37 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. "ULA is proud to be the exclusive launch provider for all ten WGS missions," said Gary Wentz, ULA vice president of Government and Commercial Programs. "Our focus on mission success continually demonstrates that safely and reliably delivering the ... read more |
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Georgia arrests two over alleged plan to sell radioactive uraniumTbilisi (AFP) March 13, 2019 Georgia said Wednesday it had arrested two men for allegedly trying to sell $2.8 million worth of radioactive uranium, the latest in a series of such seizures in the former Soviet republic. ... more 
Iran's Rouhani meets Iraq's top Shiite clericNajaf, Iraq (AFP) March 13, 2019 Iran's Hassan Rouhani met Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Iraq's Najaf on Wednesday, an AFP photographer reported, in the first encounter between an Iranian president and the country's chief Shiite cleric. ... more  
China urges Europe not to turn competition into rivalryBeijing (AFP) March 13, 2019 China on Wednesday urged the European Union not to turn "beneficial competition" between the two partners into a "rivalry" after Brussels outlined a shift to more assertive relations with Beijing. ... more  
Lockheed tapped by Navy for rapid missile technology developmentWashington (UPI) Mar 13, 2019 Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded an $84.1 million contract by the U.S. Navy for design and engineering services on four existing missile systems, the Defense Department announced. ... more |
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ESA joins with business to invent the future of navigationParis (ESA) Mar 12, 2019 The only thing more remarkable than how all of us are walking around with space-grade navigation capability and atomic clock timing precision in our pockets is how much we take all of this for grant ... more  
Microlaunchers to grow Europe's economyParis (ESA) Mar 12, 2019 A flourishing small satellites market is driving demand for new ways to access space. Recent industry feasibility studies backed by ESA for new microlauncher services, are creating new business oppo ... more  
China launches new communication satelliteXichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 China Sunday sent a new communication satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The "ChinaSat 6C" satellite was launched at 0:28 a.m. ... more  
Special Ops Command contracts Barrett for new sniper riflesWashington (UPI) Mar 13, 2019 U.S. Special Operations Command will purchase an undisclosed number of advanced sniper rifles from Barrett Firearms, the Defense Department announced this week. ... more  
US ups pressure on Europe over 5G infrastructure from China's HuaweiWashington (AFP) March 13, 2019 The US upped pressure on Europe Wednesday to avoid turning to Huawei for 5G telecom infrastructure, with a top commander saying NATO forces would cease communicating with their German colleagues if Berlin teams up with the Chinese firm. ... more |
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 Air Force receives first AC-130J Ghostrider gunship  
At 3,836 mph, which way does the air flow?Buffalo NY (SPX) Mar 14, 2019 If you've ever been to an air show, or lived near an air force base, you're familiar with sonic booms. These deafening noises are created by aircraft exceeding the speed of sound, roughly 767 ... more  |
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Chemical weapons probe team to start in 'weeks'The Hague (AFP) March 13, 2019 A new chemical weapons investigation team with the power to assign blame for attacks such as those in Syria will start work in weeks, the head of the world's toxic arms organisation said. ... more  
Russian air raids kill 13 civilians in Syria: monitorBeirut (AFP) March 13, 2019 Russian air strikes killed at least 13 civilians, including six children, Wednesday in Idlib province, in the first such raids since a September truce deal, a monitor said. ... more  
US urges Muslim nations to condemn China's Xinjiang abusesGeneva (AFP) March 13, 2019 The United States on Wednesday voiced disappointment at the failure of Muslim nations to jointly take a stand against China's treatment of its Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province. ... more 
China delays UN bid to blacklist JeM leader as terroristUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 13, 2019 China on Wednesday put on hold a request by Britain, France and the United States to add the leader of a Pakistan-based Islamist group behind a suicide attack in Kashmir to the UN terror blacklist, diplomats said. ... more 
Afghan soldiers killed in 'friendly fire' gunfight, US airstrikeKandahar, Afghanistan (AFP) March 13, 2019 An apparent case of "friendly fire" between Afghan and US troops led to an airstrike which killed five Afghan soldiers, officials said Wednesday, with the defence ministry citing a "lack of proper coordination". ... more |
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 Saint Petersburg (AFP) March 12, 2019 
Russia said on Tuesday it has stationed its newest S-400 air defence missile systems in the northwestern Leningrad region which includes its second city Saint Petersburg.
"The most modern air defence systems S-400 were put on standby alert in the Leningrad region to protect military, administrative and civilian sites," the defence ministry said.
The S-400 surface-to-air missile is one o ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 13, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded an $84.1 million contract by the U.S. Navy for design and engineering services on four existing missile systems, the Defense Department announced.
The contract, awarded to the company's Missile and Fire Control division in Orlando, Fla., was announced on Tuesday. It calls for design and development studies, technology demonstrations and engineering serv ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 
World ATM Congress - Today, AirMap, the leading global airspace management platform for drones, and Honeywell announced the development of a cost-effective drone tracking solution to provide airspace safety authorities with situational awareness of manned and unmanned aircraft operations within an airspace system.
Together, the companies will develop a cost-effective hardware device to all ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral AFC LF (SPX) Mar 14, 2019 
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket is in final preparations to launch the tenth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The launch is planned for March 15 at Space Launch Complex-37 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
"ULA is proud to be the exclusive launch provider for all ten WGS missions," said Gary Wentz, ULA vice president of Government and Comme ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 13, 2019 
U.S. Special Operations Command will purchase an undisclosed number of advanced sniper rifles from Barrett Firearms, the Defense Department announced this week.
The $49.9 million contract calls for production of the .300 PRC [precision rifle cartridge] MRAD weapons by the Christiana, Tenn.-based company, with a competition date of March 2024.
Barrett Firearms Manufacturing has pr ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 12, 2019 
President Donald Trump's 2020 budget provides for a five percent increase in defense spending, notably to finance building his controversial border wall, while slashing funds for diplomacy by 23 percent.
If approved as is - an unlikely scenario given opposition in Congress - military spending would increase to $750 billion for fiscal year 2020, which begins in October 2019.
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 Sydney (AFP) March 11, 2019 
Australia's attorney-general Monday defended a register meant to track the role of foreign agents in local politics, saying it was already changing behaviour despite only a handful of declarations.
Growing fears of political influence from foreign states, particularly China, saw Canberra pass a raft of new laws last year to curb potential meddling.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Mar 14, 2019 
Cleaning pollutants from water with a defective filter sounds like a non-starter, but a recent study by chemical engineers at Rice University found that the right-sized defects helped a molecular sieve soak up more perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in less time.
In a study in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, Rice University researchers Mich ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 11, 2019 
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani arrived Monday in Iraq for his first official visit, as Baghdad comes under pressure from Washington to limit political and trade ties with its neighbour.
Shiite-majority Iraq is walking a fine line to maintain good relations with its key partners Iran and the United States who themselves are arch-foes.
It has been under pressure from Washington not to get ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) March 9, 2019 
North Korea may be preparing for a missile or space launch, US news outlet NPR has reported, based on satellite image analysis of a key facility near Pyongyang.
NPR said the images of Sanumdong, one of the facilities Pyongyang has used to produce inter-continental ballistic missiles and space rockets, were taken days before US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) March 12, 2019 
The EU on Tuesday set out a 10-point plan aimed at rebalancing relations with Beijing as fears grow about Chinese investment and influence on critical infrastructure, including new communication technology.
European leaders will be asked to sign off on the proposals at when they meet next week in Brussels, with senior officials urging them to take action to protect EU values and standards, w ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 
Extreme temperatures, both cold and hot, bring greater mortality risk to people living in China's rural communities than in urban areas, according to a recent study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The disparity between urban and rural mortality risk was found across the entire population, but was greater for women than men, and for people over 65.
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 
Chinese scientists are designing what is expected to be the world's most powerful rocket, according to a senior researcher.
Li Hong, deputy general manager at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said the Long March 9 super heavy-lift carrier rocket will be capable of lifting 140 metric tons of payload into a low-Earth orbit, or a 50-ton spacecraft to a lunar transfer orbit. The gi ... more |
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 Taipei (AFP) March 11, 2019 
US envoy for religious freedom Sam Brownback defended his remark that China is "at war with faith" after the Chinese foreign ministry issued an angry statement condemning the envoy's words as a "malicious attack and slander on China's religious policies".
Brownback criticised the Chinese government in a speech on Friday in Hong Kong, saying the Chinese government is engaged in the persecutio ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) March 13, 2019 
A new chemical weapons investigation team with the power to assign blame for attacks such as those in Syria will start work in weeks, the head of the world's toxic arms organisation said.
Member countries of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons agreed in June to allow the body to identify the perpetrators of chemical attacks, but the new powers are strongly opposed by Mos ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force announced it is planning future experiments involving laser and microwave energy weapons after recent successes in testing sessions.
Future experiments in the Directed Energy Experimentation Campaign are planned at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement.
The tests by the 704th Test Group, essentially the use of mi ... more |
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