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  Westminster, CO (SPX) Aug 10, 2022 Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, has announced it has been selected by L3Harris Technologies for the design and production of 14 spacecraft platforms and associated support for its Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract with the Space Development Agency (SDA). SDA selected L3Harris as a prime for its Tranche 1 Tracking Layer as part of the initial Missile Warning/Missile Tracking warfighting capability of ... read more |
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Biden signs ratification of Finland, Sweden NATO bidsWashington (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed US ratification of bids by Finland and Sweden to enter NATO, taking expansion of the Western alliance in response to Russia's Ukraine invasion one step closer. ... more 
Russia launches Iranian satellite amid Ukraine war concernsAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 An Iranian satellite launched by Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan Tuesday and reached orbit amid controversy that Moscow might use it to boost its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine. ... more  
China warns it will not tolerate Taiwan 'separatists'Beijing (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 China on Wednesday vowed zero tolerance for "separatist activities" in Taiwan and reaffirmed that it would take the self-ruled island by force if necessary. ... more 
RocketStar set to launch TriSept satellite security solution aboard experimental payloadsChantilly VA (SPX) Aug 10, 2022 TriSept Corporation, a leading provider of launch integration and mission management services, has completed the integration of two experimental mission payloads running its new TSEL satellite secur ... more |
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EU expects decision 'very quickly' on Iran dealBrussels (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 The EU said Tuesday it expects Tehran and Washington to "very quickly" respond to a "final" text aimed at salvaging a 2015 deal meant to curb Iran's nuclear programme. ... more  
A painful pause as Ukraine's frontline troops think of familySumy Region, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 Soldiers on Ukraine's eastern front have spent five exhausting months under Russian bombardment, measuring out the long days and longer nights in the metronomic cadence of relentless artillery fire. ... more 
Taiwan accuses China of preparing invasion, holds defence drillFenggang Township, Taiwan (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 Taiwan held an artillery drill Tuesday simulating defence against an attack as its top diplomat accused Beijing of preparing to invade the island after days of massive Chinese war games. ... more  
Jihadist-hit Mali receives six more warplanes from RussiaBamako (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 Mali on Tuesday received five military jets and a combat helicopter from Russia, which has become a close ally in its fight against a long-running jihadist insurgency, an AFP journalist saw. ... more |
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Finnish parliament website targeted in cyber attackHelsinki (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 Finland's parliament said Tuesday its website came under cyber attack, as the Nordic country applies for NATO membership following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. ... more  
Northrop Grumman teams with Firefly to further develop Antares launcherChandler AZ (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Firefly Aerospace have joined forces to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and a new medium launch vehicle to serve com ... more 
J-Space partners with Virgin Orbit to bring sovereign air-launch capability to South KoreaSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Aug 10, 2022 Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB), a leading launch provider, announced it has signed an agreement with South Korean investment group J-Space. The agreement will allow the companies to assess candidate sp ... more 
Private rocket company completes third orbital missionBeijing (XNA) Aug 10, 2022 Galactic Energy, a carrier rocket maker in Beijing, carried out the third flight of its Ceres 1 rocket on Tuesday, becoming the first private Chinese company with a commercially ready launch vehicle ... more |
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The space economy gets major tech advancement with hybrid mobility packagesBurlington VT (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 With hybrid vehicle sales at an all-time high on Earth, Benchmark Space Systems has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC)'s electric propulsion tech ... more  
Spaceflight prepares propulsive Sherpa OTV to launch on upcoming Starlink missionSeattle WA (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 Spaceflight Inc., the leading global launch services provider, has announced it shipped the fully integrated Sherpa-LTC orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) and customer payload to Cape Canaveral to launc ... more  
Researchers create the first artificial vision system for both land and waterBoston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Giving our hardware sight has empowered a host of applications in self-driving cars, object detection, and crop monitoring. But unlike animals, synthetic vision systems can't simply evolve under nat ... more 
Kayhan Space unveils next-gen spaceflight safety platformBoulder CO (SPX) Aug 10, 2022 With thousands of satellites and countless debris bound for busy orbits, Kayhan Space has unveiled its next-gen Pathfinder spaceflight safety platform to enable satellite and mission operators to be ... more 
Iran navy says repelled attack on ship in Red SeaTehran (AFP) Aug 10, 2022 An Iranian naval flotilla thwarted an overnight attack on an Iranian vessel in the Red Sea, a senior commander said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 
Lockheed Martin recently validated prototype communications radio technology for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) during a recent test milestone.
The NGI's mission is to protect the U.S. homeland from increasing and evolving intercontinental ballistic missile threats. Critically, the interceptor and its components must be able to receive and share data from the ground and throughout t ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully completed the third captive flight test of its prototype missile development series. The internally funded air-launched missile demonstrates capabilities relevant for multiple services, missions and platforms.
Completed at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, the internally funded test successfully validated the capabil ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 
Notorious Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by two missiles fired at his Kabul home - but pictures showed no sign of an explosion, and US officials say no one else was harmed.
That points to the use again by the United States of the macabre Hellfire R9X, a warhead-less missile believed equipped with six razor-like blades extending from the fuselage that slices through its target bu ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) July 26, 2022 
French and British satellite operators Eutelsat and OneWeb announced Tuesday plans to merge and create a "global champion" in broadband internet, rivalling US giants such as Elon Musk's Starlink.
Eutelsat and OneWeb said in a joint statement that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to join forces to become "a leading global player in connectivity... in an all-share transaction." ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
Seeking to revolutionize how the Department of Defense (DoD) objectively measures individual warfighter readiness, DARPA's newest biotechnology funding opportunity aims to develop a hand-held prediction tool for warfighter physiological states based on molecular biomarkers. The device developed under the Smart Non-invasive Assays of Physiology (SNAP) program would be readily configurable to dive ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) July 27, 2022 
Poland signed Wednesday contracts to purchase South Korean weapons including tanks, artillery and fighter jets as the NATO member bordering Russia and Ukraine boosts its defences.
The amount of the contracts, signed at a ceremony in the Polish capital with representatives of Korea Aerospace Industries and Hyundai, was not provided.
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2022  China on Friday said it was cancelling several defence meetings and suspending key climate talks with the United States after a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan this week.
Beijing will "suspend the China-US climate change talks" and nix plans for a call between military leaders as well as two security meetings, the foreign ministry said, citing Pelosi's "disregard of China's ... more |
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 Tokushima, Japan (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
Raman spectroscopy, an optical microscopy technique, is a non-destructive chemical analysis technique that provides rich molecular fingerprint information about chemical structure, phase, crystallinity, and molecular interactions. The technique relies on the interaction of light with chemical bonds within a material.
However, since light is a wave, optical microscopes are unable to resolve ... more |
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 Karbala, Iraq (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims on Tuesday marked the festival of Ashura in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, the burial place of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.
The emotional event commemorates the 7th century battlefield martyrdom of Hussein, whom Shiites view as the rightful successor to the Prophet Mohammed, the issue at the heart of a schism with Sunni Islam.
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 Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Aug 9, 2022  An Iranian satellite launched by Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan early Tuesday and went into orbit amid controversy that Moscow might use it to improve its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine. A live feed from Russian space agency Roscosmos showed the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite from the Russia-controlled Baikonur cosmodrome at the scheduled time of 0552 GMT. ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 
Asian markets on Thursday tracked a Wall Street rally fuelled by healthy economic and earnings data, while traders kept a wary eye on Chinese military drills around Taiwan.
Oil extended the previous day's sell-off, that came on the back of fresh signs of weakening demand in the United States. That followed major producers announcing a small increase in output.
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 San Salvador (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 
Every time it rains, Blanca Arias in El Salvador and Sandra Ramos in Honduras fear that flooding will raze their precarious homes and leave their families destitute. Again.
It is a fate that strikes all too often in parts of Central America and, experts say, ever more frequently and severely due to climate change.
Corruption, crumbling infrastructure, uncontrolled urbanization and povert ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 
The small mechanical arm mounted with Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, has successfully completed in-orbit tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
With the support of the ground team, the small mechanical arm has completed a series of in-orbit function and performance tests. All indexes performed well, achieving expected results, said the CMSA.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 
A Hong Kong court delivered a landmark ruling on Tuesday that will help lift the lid on secrecy-shrouded pre-trial hearings held under a national security law.
The security law was imposed by Beijing after huge democracy protests and has largely snuffed out dissent in the city.
About 100 people have been charged under the law with the vast majority denied bail, held for months - some mo ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 9, 2022 
UN investigators said Tuesday there was mounting evidence of crimes being committed in Myanmar, including since a military coup last year.
The United Nations' Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said it had gathered lots of evidence of violations as well as elements indicating the most serious international crimes.
"The Mechanism has collected a significant amount of i ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 
Dragonfire, the UK's Laser Directed Energy Programme (LDEW) led by MBDA, has successfully begun a series of trials to prove the accuracy and power of the novel laser weapon.
The first of these trials recently conducted by the Dragonfire consortium - a joint industry and UK MOD collaboration between MBDA, Leonardo, QinetiQ and Dstl - at low power proved the system can successfully track air ... more |
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