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  New Delhi (AFP) March 28, 2019 India said it had destroyed a low-orbiting satellite in a missile test that proved the nation was among the world's most advanced space powers. In a rare address to the nation on Wednesday, just weeks before a national election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India had joined the United States, Russia and China in accomplishing the feat. A missile fired from a testing facility in Odisha, eastern India, downed the satellite at an altitude of around 300 kilometres (185 miles) in "a difficult op ... read more |
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Russia Reveals Details About Its First 'Predator' SatelliteMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 28, 2019 While the US expresses concern about Moscow developing new military satellites, Russian space companies have come up with peaceful and actually globally useful inventions in the sphere of satellite ... more  
N. Korea activity incompatible with denuclearization: USWashington (AFP) March 27, 2019 North Korean military activities are incompatible with denuclearization, which the United States is demanding as a condition for lifting sanctions, the commander of US forces in South Korea said Wednesday. ... more  
Tall hurdles as Europe looks to close ranks on ChinaParis (AFP) March 27, 2019 Europe's top leaders tried to project a united front when they met China's Xi Jinping, but their desire to push back against Beijing could prove difficult to put into practice, analysts say. ... more 
Bolsonaro sparks anger with call to celebrate Brazil coupRio De Janeiro (AFP) March 27, 2019 Born soon after Brazil's 1964 coup, Sueli Alves is too young to recall the horrors of a military takeover that led to the murder and disappearance of hundreds. ... more |
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Vector's GalacticSky GSky-1 satellite ready for launch later this yearSan Jose CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 Vector, the space access company, has announced its GalacticSky division, which has been in stealth mode since 2016. Led by veterans from VMWare and Citrix, as well as satellite innovators, Galactic ... more  
DARPA Seeks to Make Scalable On-Chip Security PervasiveWashington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 For the past decade, cybersecurity threats have moved from high in the software stack to progressively lower levels of the computational hierarchy, working their way towards the underlying hardware. ... more 
Trump says Google CEO committed to US, not Chinese militaryWashington (AFP) March 27, 2019 President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Google CEO Sundar Pichai, whom he'd previously accused of indirectly boosting China's military, has reassured him that he is "totally committed" to US security. ... more  
On US stopover, Taiwan leader says Hong Kong an omenWashington (AFP) March 27, 2019 Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen vowed Wednesday to ensure the island's defense as she warned of lessons from Hong Kong, saying Beijing will not allow freedoms in territories it controls. ... more  
Pompeo says US Mideast plan to discard old 'parameters'Washington (AFP) March 27, 2019 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested Wednesday that an upcoming US peace plan would break with longstanding understandings on issues such as Jerusalem and Israeli settlements, saying the old approach had failed. ... more |
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US sets up UN clash with China over bid to blacklist JeM leaderUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 27, 2019 The United States on Wednesday circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council that would blacklist the leader of a Pakistan-based Islamist group as a terrorist, setting up a potential clash with China over the move. ... more  |
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Russian S7 space firm to cancel deal with Ukraine's rocket makerMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 26, 2019 Russia's privately-owned S7 Space company will scrap a contract it has with a Ukrainian state rocket maker, Yuzhmash, on the production of 12 Zenit launch vehicles, the Russian firm's co-owner told ... more 
Sun-Synchronous Orbits are ObsoleteBethesda MD (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 A sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) is one of the most frequently used orbits for Earth-science and national security missions. SSOs are near-polar orbits whose ascending nodes precess at a rate that is m ... more 
More efficient satellite launch platform on the horizonSydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 As part of a global industry research project, combustion experts from the University of Sydney's School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering are one step closer to developing a more ... more  
Air Force Research Lab poised to change the face of high-power electronicsWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 An emerging AFRL laboratory capability is charting a new course for electronics innovation. The Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy laboratory is poised to become a major developer of high-quality se ... more  
Austal nets $261.8M for work on next two Expeditionary Fast Transport shipsWashington (UPI) Mar 26, 2019 The Navy has awarded Austal $261.8 million for work on the construction of two Expeditionary Fast Transport vessels. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 26, 2019 
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully tested two interceptors against a dummy intercontinental ballistic missile Monday.
The interceptor missiles, which were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,
shot down a test ballistic missile launched from 4,000 miles away on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the agency said in a news release.
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 Ankara (AFP) March 28, 2019 
A deal to buy Russian missiles has left Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan balancing NATO ally the United States and new regional partner Russia as he risks fallout from both Washington and Moscow.
Turkey's already soured relations with the United States could be significantly damaged with possible US sanctions if Ankara pushes ahead with the deal for the sophisticated S-400 missile defe ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 27, 2019 
Russian cosmonauts will carry out an experiment on controlling a drone driven by a propeller on board the International Space Station, Alexander Bloshenko, a science advisor to the Roscosmos's chief, told Sputnik on Wednesday.
"The experiment has been introduced into the program", Bloshenko said. During experiments with the propeller-driven drone, it is first planned to work out the design ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the tenth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 on March 15 at 8:26 p.m. EDT. ULA has been the exclusive launch provider for all ten WGS satellites.
"We are very proud to deliver this critical asset to orbit in support of the U.S. and Allied warfighters deployed around th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2019 
DARPA aims to apply the power of social networks to research and development via a novel social media platform purpose-built to quicken the pace of U.S. technology development. Polyplexus, which was recently launched as a public platform, is designed to increase access to scientific evidence and accelerate hypothesis development, research proposal generation, and research sponsor engagement. The ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) March 24, 2019 
Malaysia may retaliate against an EU plan to curb palm oil use by purchasing new fighter jets from China instead of European arms companies, its leader said Sunday.
The Southeast Asian country is the world's second largest palm oil producer after neighbouring Indonesia, and recently threatened to challenge the bloc's plan to phase out its use in biofuels at the World Trade Organization.
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 Brasilia (AFP) March 26, 2019 
Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday ordered the armed forces to hold "appropriate commemorations" of the March 1964 military coup - while denying it was a coup.
"Our president has ordered the Defense Ministry to carry out appropriate commemorations related to March 31, 1964," 55 years on, Bolsonaro's spokesman Otavio Rego Barros said at Planalto Palace in Brasilia.
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 Houghton MI (SPX) Mar 28, 2019 
Electrospinning uses electric fields to manipulate nanoscale and microscale fibers. The technique is well-developed but time-intensive and costly. A team from Michigan Technological University came up with a new way to create customizable nanofibers for growing cell cultures that cuts out time spent removing toxic solvents and chemicals. Their work is published in Elsevier's Materialia.
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 24, 2019  Five years after the Islamic State group swept across Iraq, Baghdad is bidding to reclaim its role as a regional player while walking a tightrope between rival backers the US and Iran.
The country is seeking to position itself as a "bridge" between rival powers in a region beset by deep divisions, says Iraqi political scientist Ihssan al-Shemmari.
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 Washington (AFP) March 27, 2019 
North Korean military activities are incompatible with denuclearization, which the United States is demanding as a condition for lifting sanctions, the commander of US forces in South Korea said Wednesday.
"Despite a reduction in tensions along the demilitarized zone and a cessation of strategic provocations coupled with public statements of intent to denuclearize, little to no verifiable ch ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 26, 2019 
US Senate Republican leaders forced a stunt vote Tuesday on a climate change measure they ridicule, seeking to corner Democratic presidential hopefuls over an expensive, economy-upending plan proposed by the party's liberal left wing.
The chamber easily rejected the Green New Deal, a proposal offered by progressive Democrats that would dramatically shift the United States away from fossil fu ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 26, 2019 
Japan will for the first time next month lift an evacuation order in one of two towns where the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is located, officials said Tuesday.
The government plans to lift the order for part of Okuma town on April 10, cabinet office official Yohei Ogino told AFP.
It will be the first time the government has lifted an evacuation order in the towns - Okuma and Futaba ... more |
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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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 Beijing (AFP) March 26, 2019 
A court in China sentenced the country's former head of internet censorship, Lu Wei, to 14 years in prison for bribery on Tuesday, as part of President Xi Jinping's ongoing anti-graft campaign.
Lu, who was charged with accepting bribes from 2002 to 2017, was also fined 3 million yuan ($450,000), said the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court in eastern Zhejiang province.
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 24, 2019 
For the millions forced to endure the Islamic State group's brutal rule, life in the "caliphate" was a living hell where girls were enslaved, music was banned and homosexuality was punishable by death.
The jihadists applied an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islamic law across the swathes of Syria and Iraq that they captured in 2014, torturing or executing anyone who disobeyed.
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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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