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Airbus and Thales Alenia Space to build two SpainSAT NG satellites Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 07, 2019 A four co-primes consortium formed by Airbus and Thales Alenia Space (both in Spain and France) has been selected by Hisdesat Servicios Estrategicos S.A. (Spanish Governmental Satellite Operator) to build two SpainSAT NG satellites. Used for governmental communications, these new generation satellites will replace the existing Spainsat and Xtar-EUR satellites. Airbus will act as "lead partner" of the consortium. The SPAINSAT NG programme includes two satellites, SPAINSAT NG I and II which will be ... read more |
4th Space Operations Squadron takes control of AEHF-4 Schriever AFB CO (AFNS) May 13, 2019 The 4th Space Operations Squadron accepted control of a new satellite in their constellation, Advanced Extremely High Frequency-4 from the Space and Missile Center and 14th Air Force in a satellite ... more Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 10, 2019 The US Air Force is gearing up to launch the fifth global, anti-jam, protected communications satellite after its arrival in Florida. Lockheed Martin shipped the Air Force's fifth Advanced Extremely ... more Washington DC (UPI) May 13, 2019 The Defense Department is moving the USS Arlington amphibious transport dock ship and a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery to the Middle East for additional military strength amid rising tensions with Iran. ... more Paris (AFP) May 11, 2019 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has described Tehran's threat to resume nuclear work - in what would be a contravention of its commitments under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal - as a "bad reaction", calling on Tehran to show "political maturity". ... more |
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Huawei exec vows to fight extradition to US in Canada court Vancouver (AFP) May 8, 2019 A top Chinese telecom executive whose arrest in Canada on a US warrant triggered a bitter diplomatic row vowed Wednesday to vigorously fight extradition to the US. ... more Ottawa (AFP) May 8, 2019 Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped breach of trust charges against the former second in command of Canada's military who had been accused of leaking cabinet secrets related to navy shipbuilding plans. ... more Huntsville AL (SPX) May 09, 2019 Rocket Crafters, a manufacturer of advanced rockets operating from the Florida Space Coast, and RUAG Space, a leading independent product supplier for spacecraft, electronics and launchers, signed a ... more Washington DC (SPX) May 07, 2019 Airbus has been selected by MEASAT Global Berhad ("MEASAT"), the leading Malaysian operator, to build MEASAT-3d, a new multimission telecommunications satellite to replace capacity and augment its c ... more Baltimore MD (SPX) May 07, 2019 The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - NASA's first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique - will get one chance to hit its target, the small moonlet in the binary asteroid syst ... more |
Ariane 6 series production begins with first batch of 14 launchers Washington DC (SPX) May 10, 2019 Artificial intelligence has defeated chess grandmasters, Go champions, professional poker players, and, now, world-class human experts in the online strategy games Dota 2 and StarCraft II. No AI cur ... more
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Brazil court orders Bolsonaro to explain gun decree Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 11, 2019 A Supreme Court judge has given Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and the justice ministry five days to explain his decree granting millions of citizens the right to carry loaded weapons in public, which critics say is unconstitutional. ... more Washington (UPI) May 10, 2019 The Defense Department has dispatched two more B-52s and a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East amid growing tensions with Iran. ... more On Board The French Aircraft Carrier Charles De Gaulle (AFP) May 10, 2019 With the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle at the centre, France and India on Friday stepped up their biggest naval exercises as the Indian Ocean's strategic shipping lanes draw ever more envious eyes. ... more Brussels (AFP) May 11, 2019 Belgian leaders are mulling the suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, national broadcaster RTBF said Saturday after it was reported they had been used in Yemen. ... more Berlin (AFP) May 12, 2019 When in 1948 US bombers started dropping tiny, improvised parachutes loaded with sweets into Berlin during the Soviet blockade, one little German girl wrote to complain. ... more |
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Lockheed Martin awarded $84.9 million Navy contract for AEGIS system development Washington (UPI) May 8, 2019 The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin an $84.9 million contract modification for work on the AEGIS weapons system, the Defense Department announced. The contract is a cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to a prior contract, the Defense Department said on Tuesday. It covers combat system engineering, architecture, development, integration and testing; Naval Integrated Fire Control-Count ... more |
F-35C jets to be armed with hypersonic cruise missiles Washington DC (UPI) May 10, 2019 The Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, was developed as a missile for land attacks, but could reportedly be used for maritime strikes soon. The US authorities earlier awarded Lockheed Martin, who manufactures the F-35 fighters, a $928-million contract to develop it. They are expected to fly for the first time this year. The US-based defence giant Lockheed Martin has presente ... more |
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Hummingbird robot uses AI to soon go where drones can't West Lafayette IN (SPX) May 10, 2019 What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect? Your friendly neighborhood hummingbirds. If drones had this combo, they would be able to maneuver better through collapsed buildings and other cluttered spaces to find trapped victims. Purdue University researchers have engineered flying robots that behave like hummingbirds, trained by machine learning algorithms based on various technique ... more |
Next AEHF satellite shipped to Cape Canaveral for June launch Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 10, 2019 The US Air Force is gearing up to launch the fifth global, anti-jam, protected communications satellite after its arrival in Florida. Lockheed Martin shipped the Air Force's fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-5) satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ahead of its expected June launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. AEHF-5's launch comes just eight months after AEHF- ... more |
Expediting Software Certification for Military Systems, Platforms Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2019 Military systems are increasingly using software to support functionality, new capabilities, and beyond. Before a new piece of software can be deployed within a system however, its functional safety and compliance with certain standards must be verified and ultimately receive certification. As the rapid rate of software usage continues to grow, it is becoming exceedingly difficult to assur ... more |
France confirms contested arms shipment to Saudi Arabia Paris (AFP) May 8, 2019 The French government confirmed Wednesday that a new shipment of weapons will head for Saudi Arabia, despite claims Riyadh is using the arms in the Yemen war. Defence Minister Florence Parly told BFM television the weapons would be loaded onto a Saudi cargo ship scheduled to arrive Wednesday in the French port of Le Havre. She refused to identify the types of arms, but reiterated France' ... more |
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US-China standoff heralds risky shake-up of global order: analysts Paris (AFP) May 11, 2019 Flaring tensions between Washington and Beijing are raising the prospect of new global diplomatic and economic fault lines, with consequences that analysts say could pose unfamiliar challenges to world leaders. From an escalating trade war to an influence struggle in the South China Sea, "we've entered a period of strong and long-term rivalry between the United States and China," said Alice ... more |
Monitoring the lifecycle of tiny catalyst nanoparticles Bochum, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2019 Nanoparticles can be used in many ways as catalysts. To be able to tailor them in such a way that they can catalyse certain reactions selectively and efficiently, researchers need to determine the properties of single particles as precisely as possible. So far, an ensemble of many nanoparticles is analysed. However, the problem of these investigations is that the contributions of different parti ... more |
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Fears of new jihadist 'academies' as Iraqi jails fill up Baghdad (AFP) May 9, 2019 As Iraq tries thousands of locals and foreigners accused of joining the Islamic State group, experts warn its jails could once again become "academies" for jihadists. Prison was a pivotal moment for many prominent jihadists - not least of them Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, IS's Iraqi supremo who remains at large despite the collapse of his "caliphate" in March. Baghdadi was held in Camp Bucca, ... more |
North Korea treads fine line with missile launch: analysts Seoul (AFP) May 10, 2019 With two missile launches in the space of a week, North Korea is treading a fine line between increasing pressure on the US and not derailing their nuclear negotiations - all the while giving itself room to escalate, analysts say. Pyongyang fired two short-range missiles Thursday - following an earlier drill on Saturday - having not launched any since November 2017, shortly before leader ... more |
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Trump orders tariff hike on remaining Chinese imports Washington (AFP) May 11, 2019 US President Donald Trump cranked up the heat in a trade battle with China on Friday, ordering a tariff hike on almost all remaining imports from the world's second-biggest economy, but Beijing said talks would continue to resolve the row. After tweeting that two days of trade talks in Washington had been "candid and constructive," the businessman-turned-politician changed tack and followed ... more |
Italy takes in migrants rescued by navy, but not charity ship Rome (AFP) May 10, 2019 Migrants rescued at sea by the Italian navy will land in Italy on Friday after a EU deal to host them, the government said, while others saved by a charity ship remain stranded at sea. Thirty-six people were plucked from a floundering boat off Libya on Thursday after they were spotted by a navy boat patrolling as part of an Italian operation to protect fishing and oil platforms. "I thank ... more |
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China's Yuanwang-7 departs for space monitoring missions Nanjing (XNA) May 03, 2019 China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-7 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean, beginning its first maritime space monitoring mission this year. The ship departed from a port in eastern China's Jiangsu Province Wednesday. As a part of China's new generation of spacecraft tracking ships, Yuanwang-7 is about 220 meters long, 40 meters high and has a displacement of nearly 30,000 tonnes. I ... more |
Chinese court holds off ruling on Canadian's death penalty appeal Beijing (AFP) May 9, 2019 A Chinese court adjourned a hearing on a Canadian man's appeal against his death sentence for drug smuggling without a decision Thursday in a case that has deepened a diplomatic spat between Beijing and Ottawa. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, was sentenced to death in January after a court deemed his previous 15-year prison sentence too lenient. His appeal hearing came a day after a top e ... more |
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Brazil court orders Bolsonaro to explain gun decree Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 11, 2019 A Supreme Court judge has given Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and the justice ministry five days to explain his decree granting millions of citizens the right to carry loaded weapons in public, which critics say is unconstitutional. Justice Rosa Weber's ruling on Friday came after an opposition political party, the Sustainability Network, challenged the constitutionality of Bol ... more |
Raytheon shoots down drone with lasers, microwaves in Air Force test Washington DC (UPI) May 01, 2019 A U.S. Air Force exercise involving high-energy microwaves and guided lasers to shoot down drones was a success, contractor Raytheon announced. Dozens of unmanned aerial targets were defeated in the tests at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., a Raytheon statement released on Tuesday said. The event expanded on previous directed energy demonstrations, including a U.S. Army exercise ... more |
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