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  Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 25, 2019 The Russian Space Systems company, together with the Polar Initiative scientific and information centre, have developed requirements for receivers of satellite navigation systems for use in the Arctic, the company, which is a part of State Space Corporation Roscosmos, said. "The relevant state standard (GOST) is planned to be submitted to Rosstandart [Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology] for approval before the end of this year. Its adoption will become the foundation for the furt ... read more |
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Work on 6th-Generation fighters underway in RussiaMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2019 Work on sixth-generation fighters is underway in Russia, with the possibility of pilot control expected to be optional, State Research Institute of Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS) Director General Serge ... more  
State Dept. approves sale of laser aircraft defense system to QatarWashington (UPI) Sep 25, 2019 The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of two AN/AAQ-24(V)N Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures systems to Qatar for $86 million. ... more  
China anniversary parade to unveil hi-tech military gear: reportBeijing (AFP) Sept 25, 2019 China will likely unveil a new supersonic drone and intercontinental ballistic missiles at a military parade next week marking 70 years of Communist Party rule, according to Paris-based researchers. ... more  
Fedor a first step to future of teams of robot cosmonautsMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 25, 2019 Russia's Skybot F-850, better known as the FEDOR ('Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research') humanoid robot, successfully completed his trip to the International Space Station earlier this ... more |
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SpaceX installs wings on Starship ahead of official update Saturday by MuskWashington DC (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2019 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to give an update on the new design for his Starship Mk1 presentation next Saturday, with the company working round the clock so the piece is ready for its big reve ... more 
Last Soyuz-FG Carrier Rocket installed at BaikonurBaikonur, Kazakhstan (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2019 The last ever Soyuz-FG carrier rocket to be launched was installed at a launch site at Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Monday, Russia's state space agency, Roscosmos, said. According to th ... more 
Launch of Proton-M at Baikonur delayed over technical reasonsBaikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 The launch of Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with commercial satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome has been delayed for conducting extra tests of its Breeze-M upper stage, State Space Corporation ... more 
ISRO's latest rocket science maths pains former officialsNew Delhi (IANS) Sep 24, 2019 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K.Sivan's statement on Saturday that the Chandrayaan-2 mission was a 98 percent success has invited scorn many former senior officials of the space ... more  
60% of major US firms have been hacked in cloudWashington (AFP) Sept 25, 2019 Hackers have penetrated cloud computing networks of some 60 percent of top US companies, with virtually all industry sectors hit, security researchers said Tuesday. ... more |
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HII awarded $58M for work on Columbus, Helena submarinesWashington (UPI) Sep 25, 2019 The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries with $58 million in contracts for repair and modernization work on two Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarines. ... more  |
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Trump marks Mars as next target, Moon 'not so exciting'Washington DC (Sputnik) Sep 23, 2019 US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the US space program's efforts to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 as "tremendous," yet outlined that the ultimate goal is Mars. "We're going t ... more 
Air Force approves production start for HH-60W combat rescue helicoptersWashington (UPI) Sep 25, 2019 The U.S. Air Force moved the Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter program into low rate initial production, after giving it a Milestone C decision. ... more 
Navy's Super Hornet, Growler fleets hit 80 percent readiness goalWashington (UPI) Sep 25, 2019 The F/A-18 E/F "Super Hornet" and EA-18G "Growler" fleets of the U.S. Navy have both reached 80 percent mission-capable readiness, a target mandated by the Secretary of Defense. ... more  
Yemen 'peace initiative' still stands despite air strikes: rebelsSanaa (AFP) Sept 25, 2019 Yemen's Huthi rebels said Wednesday their offer to halt all attacks on Saudi Arabia still stands despite new air strikes allegedly launched by a Riyadh-led coalition fighting the insurgents. ... more 
Ghosts of China's past haunt former capital NanjingNanjing, China (AFP) Sept 26, 2019 The eastern city of Nanjing contains vestiges of China's past that represent an inconvenient truth for the government today: the Chinese world has not always revolved around the Communists and Beijing. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 23, 2019 
Orbital Sciences Corp. received a $1.1 billion contract with the Missile Defense Agency for missile defense targets, the Defense Department announced.
The company, based in Chandler, Ariz., and a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, will build "threat-representative subscale targets with simple and complex re-entry vehicles," the Defense Department said on Friday.
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 25, 2019  Something as simple as an electric field could soon make wartime missiles or drinking mugs easier to produce and more resilient for fracture.
Items such as drinking mugs, missile heads, thermal barrier coatings on engine blades, auto parts, electronic and optic components are commonly made with ceramics.
The ceramics are mechanically strong, but ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Sept 19, 2019 
Drone deliveries are coming soon, at least for one Virginia community, as part of a pilot project announced Thursday by Wing, the unit spun out of a "moonshot" lab at Google parent Alphabet.
The drone service to launch in October in Christiansburg, Virginia, will be the most advanced real-world test of the technology to quickly fly items ranging from Gummy Bears to painkillers to customers, ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
DARPA has announced the 10 teams that have qualified for the Championship Event of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) - a three-year contest to unlock the potential of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum using artificial intelligence (AI). The teams will head to Mobile World Congress Los Angeles on October 23, 2019, where their radio designs will go head to head during a live competition. ... more |
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 Aberdeen MD (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
Anticipating the technology and weapon systems of our future Army might not be entirely daunting, new Army research finds.
Trends in the progression of weapon systems from the early crossbowman to a musket to a military tank might help predict our future systems, according to a new study to be published in the Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, "Towards Universal Laws of Technolog ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 20, 2019 
Legendary US gun manufacturer Colt has said it will no longer produce the AR-15, blaming market forces rather than the semi-automatic rifle's role in some of the country's worst mass shootings.
"Over the last few years, the market for modern sporting rifles has experienced significant excess manufacturing capacity," said the company's chief executive Dennis Veilleux in a statement released o ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 25, 2019 
Beijing accused Donald Trump of making "untrue remarks" over Hong Kong and Chinese trade commitments on Wednesday, hitting back after the US president ramped up pressure on China at the United Nations.
Beijing is facing international criticism on a number of fronts, as months of pro-democracy unrest in the semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong come alongside economic tensions with the US and int ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising types of future pharmaceuticals.
Scientists who study the nanoscale - with molecules and materials 10,000 smaller than a pinhead - need to be able to test the way that some molecules twist, known as their chirality, because mirror image molecul ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Sept 23, 2019 
Two rockets landed near the US embassy in Baghdad overnight, security sources told AFP early Tuesday, with foreign diplomats there reporting emergency sirens repeatedly going off.
The latest attack within the walled-off Green Zone, which hosts foreign embassies and Iraqi government buildings, comes amid heightened tensions between Baghdad's two main allies, Tehran and Washington.
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 Tehran (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 
Iran's armed forces chief of staff on Tuesday vowed to destroy any enemy that attacked the country, a news agency reported.
"The result of any aggression will be destruction" and "captivity", the Fars news agency reported Mohammad Bagheri as telling parliament.
Iran has "no animosity towards the countries of the region", Bagheri said, according to the agency close to the country's ultra- ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 
China is in "no rush" to add a monetary stimulus to cope with downward pressure on the world's number-two economy, the head of the country's central bank said Tuesday.
A lingering trade war with the United States and cooling growth has raised expectations that Beijing may resort to an a round of stimulus measures to provide a kickstart.
Major central banks, including the Federal Reserve ... more |
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 Chengue, Colombia (AFP) Sept 25, 2019 
Covered from head to toe in a protective suit, Yina Ortiz peers through a veil to check in on her beehive.
It is one of hundreds that form a lifeline for her remote village, helping to heal the wounds of one of the Colombian conflict's most brutal atrocities.
Rightwing paramilitaries stormed the village in the dead of night and used machetes to hack 27 people to death, accusing them of c ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 25, 2019  China's Communist Party has defied the odds to retain firm control of power for 70 years, adapting to a changing world to outlast its comrades in the Soviet Union.
As the People's Republic of China prepares to celebrate its anniversary on Tuesday, here is a look at how the party has evolved over the years.
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 26, 2019 
The arrest of a US soldier with far-right sympathies who is suspected of plotting an attack on American soil to spark "chaos" has highlighted a challenge for the Pentagon: purging its ranks of extremists.
Jarrett Smith, a private in the US Army based at Fort Riley in Kansas, was arrested and charged in federal court with one count of distributing information related to explosives after offer ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 
German defense contractors Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland will build a high-energy laser for installation aboard a German navy ship.
While performance specifications or timetables have not yet been developed by the government Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, the announcement last week is the first time the German military has entered the arena of laser weapon development.
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