|
|
|
  Moscow (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 Russia announced Thursday it will hold huge naval drills in the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific and Mediterranean this month and February, at a time of heightened tensions with Western nations. The war games will involve "more than 140 warships and support vessels, more than 60 aircraft, 1,000 pieces of military equipment, and about 10,000 servicemen," the defence ministry said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies. The announcement comes one day ahead of a meeting in Geneva between US Secre ... read more |
 |
 
China, Russia block US push for UN sanctions on N.Koreans: diplomatsUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 China and Russia on Thursday blocked a US push to impose United Nations sanctions on five North Koreans in response to recent missile launches by Pyongyang, diplomats told AFP. ... more 
Baltic states authorised to rush US-made weapons to UkraineVilnius (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 The United States has given the green light for Baltic nations to rush US-made weapons to Ukraine, with Lithuania on Thursday saying it hoped to deter "aggressor" Russia. ... more 
Romania ready to host French troops: presidentBucharest (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday welcomed French counterpart Emmanuel Macron's announcement of a possible troop deployment on NATO's Eastern flank as fears rise of a Russian attack on Ukraine. ... more 
World powers in Berlin insist Iran deal still possibleBerlin (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and European allies insisted it was still possible to revive the Iran nuclear deal but said "time is running out", after talks in Berlin Thursday. ... more |
|
|
|
|
| Previous Issues | Jan 20 | Jan 19 | Jan 18 | Jan 17 | Jan 16 |
|
|
|
|
|
 
China's high-resolution multi-mode imaging satellite put into useBeijing (XNA) Jan 21, 2022 China's high-resolution multi-mode imaging satellite has been officially put into use, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) Thursday. The satellite was launched on July ... more  
Private investment in space infrastructure hit record $14.5B in 2021Washington DC (UPI) Jan 18, 2021 Private investment in space infrastructure companies hit a record-breaking $14.5 billion last year, according to a report Tuesday by New York City-based firm Space Capital. ... more  
SpaceX launches 2,000th Starlink satellite from FloridaOrlando FL (UPI) Jan 19, 2022 SpaceX successfully launched 49 Starlink satellites from Florida on Tuesday evening, bringing the total number of Starlinks launched to over 2,000. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Complex ... more  
Carnegie Mellon-led team to develop robotics to service satellites and build structuresWashington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 There are 6,500 satellites in orbit, but only about half of them are functional. Once a satellite breaks down or runs out of fuel, it is essentially useless. Repairs, maintenance and upgrades are ne ... more  
Reasserting U.S. leadership in microelectronicsBoston MA (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 The global semiconductor shortage has grabbed Reasserting U.S. leadership in microelectronicss and caused a cascade of production bottlenecks that have driven up prices on all sorts of consumer good ... more |
|
  US drops charges against Chinese-born MIT professor  |
|
|
|
 
China hits out at Slovenia for plan to strengthen Taiwan tiesBeijing (AFP) Jan 19, 2022 Beijing on Wednesday hit out at Slovenia after the European Union country said it plans to strengthen ties with the self-ruled island of Taiwan. ... more  
Israel buys three military submarines from GermanyJerusalem (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 Israel announced Thursday a deal with Germany to develop and purchase three submarines from German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp for three billion euros ($3.4 billion). ... more 
Iran, Russia, China to stage Indian Ocean war gamesTehran (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 Iran, Russia and China will begin on Friday joint naval drills for three days in the Indian Ocean, seeking to reinforce "common security", an Iranian naval official said Thursday. ... more  
Greece takes delivery of Rafale jets from FranceTanagra, Greece (AFP) Jan 19, 2022 Greece on Wednesday received six Rafale jets from France in a multi-billion-euro arms deal which Athens and Paris claim boosts the EU's defence capabilities, but is mainly seen as countering Turkish ambitions in the Mediterranean. ... more  
French parliament denounces China's Uyghur 'genocide'Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 France's parliament on Thursday denounced a "genocide" by China against its Uyghur Muslim population, in a resolution that risks straining ties between Paris and Beijing two weeks before the Winter Olympics. ... more |
|
|
|
 Melbourne FL (SPX) Dec 27, 2021 
L3Harris Technologies has completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite.
Completing the CDR is the final design milestone ensuring performance, cost and schedule requirements can be met b ... more |
|
 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 19, 2022 
The Arrow-3 is one of several missile and drone defence systems in Israel's arsenal, and is meant to counter threats including long-range ballistic and cruise missiles. Unlike the Iron Dome air defence system - which has seen plenty of testing against simple Hamas rockets, the Arrow-3's capabilities have yet to be proven in a real-life conflict.
The Israeli military completed a test of the ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 18, 2022 
Airbus, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), NTT DOCOMO, and SKY Perfect JSAT have jointly begun studying the feasibility of collaborating on future high-altitude platform stations (HAPS)-based connectivity services as part of a future space-based wireless connectivity ecosystem.
Launched with a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the study aims to identify the early deployment ... more |
|
 Herndon VA (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 
Eclipse Global Connectivity, Smiths Interconnect and ST Engineering iDirect (iDirect) has announced their collaboration to deliver an integrated airborne Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (A-ISR) satellite communications (SATCOM) capability for military and government aircraft.
The solution, drawing on the extensive expertise of the three companies, will initially address the be ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's complementary position, navigation, and timing (PNT) AgilePod prototype achieved three important objectives in flight tests conducted here November 1-10.
The test team - representing a broad base of Air Force, Navy, and vendor organizations - successfully executed eight sorties aboard a T-38C aircraft, which included the first test of the PNT AgilePod on ... more |
|
 Washington (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 
The United States renewed calls Tuesday for an arms embargo on Myanmar's junta after a Christmas Eve massacre in which Save the Children said two of the group's staff were killed.
"The targeting of innocent people and humanitarian actors is unacceptable, and the military's widespread atrocities against the people of Burma underscore the urgency of holding its members accountable," US Secreta ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Moscow (AFP) Jan 20, 2022  Russia announced Thursday it will hold huge naval drills in the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific and Mediterranean this month and February, at a time of heightened tensions with Western nations.
The war games will involve "more than 140 warships and support vessels, more than 60 aircraft, 1,000 pieces of military equipment, and about 10,000 servicemen," the defence ministry said in a statement carr ... more |
|
 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that materials that are based on sandwich nanotubes retained their stiffness at lower densities.
Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) revealed how this ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Baghdad (AFP) Jan 19, 2022 
Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict.
"When you are in your own country, you feel very high emotions with the audience," the master string player said in an interview with AFP.
At nearly 60, the virtuoso who studied under late Iraqi oud legend Munir Bas ... more |
|
 Berlin (AFP) Jan 20, 2022  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and European allies insisted it was still possible to revive the Iran nuclear deal but said "time is running out", after talks in Berlin Thursday.
Blinken told reporters that negotiators working in Vienna to salvage the 2015 accord with Tehran had seen "modest progress in the last couple weeks" but were taking nothing for granted.
"My own assessment, ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Washington (AFP) Jan 19, 2022 
President Joe Biden said his administration is working on removing tariffs on Chinese goods imposed by his predecessor, but Beijing will have to do more to meet its trade commitments.
"We're not there yet," Biden told reporters when asked about the prospect of ending the tariffs.
At a press conference ahead of the first anniversary of his inauguration, Biden said US Trade Representative ... more |
|
 Montreal (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 
Canadian authorities found the bodies of four people including a baby who apparently froze to death in a blizzard a few meters from the US border along a route used by migrants, officials said Thursday.
The temperature Wednesday when the bodies were found amid vast snowdrifts, taking into account the wind, was minus 35 degrees Celsius (minus 31 Fahrenheit).
"At this very early stage of t ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Dalian (XNA) Jan 20, 2022 
Who would ever have thought that technology used on China's largest carrier rocket would be used to improve the safety of skiers?
Chinese scientists have developed a strong ski helmet with space technology originally used on the Long March-5 rocket, the country's heaviest launch vehicle and the carrier of Mars probe Tianwen-1.
The helmet, designed by a team from the Dalian University ... more |
|
 Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 
The stark contrast between the lives of two coronavirus patients unearthed by Chinese contact tracers sparked a widespread debate on Thursday over the country's entrenched wealth inequality.
One patient recently infected in Beijing went skiing, shopped at Dior and watched live comedy.
Another hauled construction waste through the night across China's capital, working more than a dozen od ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Washington (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 
The US government has approved the release of five more prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, according to documents posted online this week by the Defense Department.
Three of the five detainees were from Yemen, one was from Somalia, and the fifth from Kenya.
They have spent a collective 85 years in the prison opened two decades ago for so-called "war on terror" detainees ... more |
|
 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.
The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM and jointly managed by UNM's School of Engineering and UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). AFRL is recognized as the nation's ... more |
|
|
|
|
| Buy Advertising | About Us | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2020 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement |
