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DARPA selects SpaceLink to participate in its program to connect the proliferated space domain MCLean VA (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 SpaceLink, a company that provides secure data from any orbit, any time, announced it was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for a contract award. SpaceLink will participate in the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program designed to connect the proliferated space domain. SpaceLink is building a constellation of relay satellites in MEO that use optical intersatellite links to speed communications between spacecra ... read more |
Solomon Islands secures $66 mn Chinese loan for Huawei deal Sydney (AFP) Aug 19, 2022 Solomon Islands has secured a $66 million loan from China to fund tech giant Huawei building 161 telecoms towers across the Pacific nation, its government said Thursday. ... more Mikkeli, Finland (AFP) Aug 19, 2022 Finland will host a meeting with Sweden and Turkey later this month, the Finnish foreign minister said on Friday, after Ankara voiced its opposition to the Nordic countries' NATO bids. ... more Madrid (AFP) Aug 23, 2022 Iran requested "some adjustments" to a draft agreement on reviving a 2015 nuclear accord with major powers proposed by the European Union, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Tuesday. ... more Schriever SFB CO (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 Space Training and Readiness Command completed its first exercise iteration of SPACE FLAG (SPACE FLAG 22-3) since being accredited by the Joint Staff as a Joint National Training Capability. S ... more |
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New $775 mn US arms package to bolster Ukraine offensive ops Washington (AFP) Aug 19, 2022 The US Defense Department on Friday announced a new $775 million arms package for Ukraine aiming to help Kyiv turn the tables and begin regaining territory occupied by Russian forces. ... more Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 The Air Force Research Laboratory Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office has invested $15 million upgrading a decades-old workhorse to make it relevant for 21st century warfighter ... more El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 The United States Space Force Space Systems Command's Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Wide Field of View Testbed is online and the bus checkout is complete. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Blossom ... more Louisville CO (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 US Space Force (USSF) has awarded Orion Space Solutions a contract to develop three spacecraft in support of USSF's mission to advance and launch new technologies in space. Working with partne ... more |
US, South Korea begin biggest joint military drills since 2018 Seoul (AFP) Aug 22, 2022 The United States and South Korea began their biggest combined military drills since 2018 on Monday, Seoul said - a move likely to enrage North Korea, which has been ramping up its nuclear threats. ... more Taipei (AFP) Aug 23, 2022 President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday that Taiwanese people remained resolved to defend the island following China's huge military drills. ... more Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2022 Washington denied Monday suggestions it is stalling a potential agreement to resurrect the Iran nuclear deal after a "final" draft was circulated, but said outstanding questions remain. ... more Berlin (AFP) Aug 21, 2022 The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the United States on Sunday urged military restraint around the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, as they vowed to maintain their backing for Kyiv in the war. ... more |
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Japan mulls long-range missile upgrades due to China threat: report Tokyo (AFP) Aug 21, 2022 Japan is considering the deployment of more than 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to increase its ability to counter growing regional threats from China, local newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Sunday. ... more Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 MariaDB Corporation has announced it has acquired CubeWerx, leaders in geospatial solutions, for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilit ... more Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 20, 2022 Twelve Ukrainians, including three children, were wounded Saturday after Russian forces attacked an apartment block and several houses in the city of Voznesensk, near a key nuclear plant, prosecutors said. ... more Baghdad (AFP) Aug 23, 2022 Several hundred supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr launched a sit-in outside Iraq's top judicial body on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions in a showdown with a rival Shiite alliance. ... more Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Aug 22, 2022 Two rival Iranian Kurdish opposition parties based in northern Iraq have announced in a joint statement their reunification 16 years after they split over internal disputes. ... more |
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Lockheed Martin's next gen interceptor achieves communications testing milestone 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 |
Russia deploys hypersonic missiles to Kaliningrad Moscow (AFP) Aug 18, 2022 Russia on Thursday relocated three warplanes equipped with hypersonic missiles to its exclave of Kaliningrad on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Wedged between EU and NATO members Lithuania and Poland that have firmly backed Ukraine in the conflict with Moscow, the heavily militarised region of Kaliningrad does not share a land border with Russia. On Thursday, "three Mig-31i aircraft with ... more |
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Modified X-62 helps accelerate tactical autonomy development Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 The Air Force Research Laboratory Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office has invested $15 million upgrading a decades-old workhorse to make it relevant for 21st century warfighter challenges. AFRL's Autonomous Aircraft Experimentation team is using a highly modified Air Force Test Pilot School NF-16, an aircraft recently designated the X-62, to accelerate the development of ta ... more |
US Navy military sealift command awards Inmarsat 10-year wideband follow-on contract Washington DC (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 Inmarsat Government has announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded Inmarsat Government the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC) Next Generation Wideband (NGW) Follow-On (FO) Contract for worldwide end-to-end commercial satellite communications services. An Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, the ceiling value of the award is $578M ove ... more |
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Northrop Grumman G/ATOR demonstrates advanced radar capability for US Marines Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) multifunction sensor successfully detected and tracked multiple cruise missile threats simultaneously during a recent live-fire test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. G/ATOR successfully tracked each target immediately after launch and passed relevant information in real time to intercept numerou ... more |
Putin pushes Russia's combat-tested arms for export Moscow (AFP) Aug 15, 2022 President Vladimir Putin on Monday promoted Russian weapons to his foreign allies, saying they had all been tested on the field of battle. "We are ready to offer allies and partners the most modern types of weapons - from small arms to armoured vehicles and artillery, combat aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles," Putin said in televised remarks at the opening of a military forum outside M ... more |
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New $775 mn US arms package to bolster Ukraine offensive ops Washington (AFP) Aug 19, 2022 The US Defense Department on Friday announced a new $775 million arms package for Ukraine aiming to help Kyiv turn the tables and begin regaining territory occupied by Russian forces. The Russian offensive which began February 24 has been brought to a standstill, a senior Pentagon official told reporters, and the new package includes a range of precision missiles, anti-armor weaponry, survei ... more |
Towards stable, sustained Raman imaging of large samples at the nanoscale 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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Iraqi cleric's supporters pray in new show of strength Baghdad (AFP) Aug 19, 2022 Thousands of supporters of Iraq's powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr stepped up their pressure tactics Friday with a weekly prayer session in the high-security Green Zone they have occupied for three weeks. Tensions in the impoverished, war-scarred country have escalated over the inability of political factions to agree on formation of a government, 10 months after parliamentary elections. ... more |
US, South Korea begin biggest joint military drills since 2018 Seoul (AFP) Aug 22, 2022 The United States and South Korea began their biggest combined military drills since 2018 on Monday, Seoul said - a move likely to enrage North Korea, which has been ramping up its nuclear threats. Washington is Seoul's key security ally and stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect it from its nuclear-armed neighbour. The two countries have long carried out joint exercises ... more |
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Indian foreign minister defends ties with Myanmar junta Bangkok (AFP) Aug 18, 2022 India's foreign minister on Thursday defended his country's ties with the Myanmar junta, despite growing international concerns about recent executions and the legitimacy of elections planned for next year. Myanmar's decade-long experiment with democracy was halted last year and the country has since spiralled into bloody conflict after the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian governm ... more |
Erdogan warns of 'another Chernobyl' after talks in Ukraine Lviv, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 18, 2022 Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Thursday of a nuclear disaster in Ukraine during his first face-to-face talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky since Russia's invasion began, echoing pleas from the UN's chief. A flare up in fighting around Europe's largest nuclear facility in Russian-controlled southern Ukraine has sparked urgent warnings from world leaders and UN chief Antonio Gu ... more |
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103rd successful rocket launch breaks record Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 The Long March carrier rocket family, China's backbone launch vehicle fleet, has set a new record for successful consecutive launches after a Long March 2D launch over the weekend, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor. The rocket blasted off at 1:37 am Saturday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and l ... more |
Restrictions lifted on Hong Kong's largest security trial Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 18, 2022 Reporting restrictions blanketing Hong Kong's largest national security prosecution were lifted on Thursday following an earlier a High Court ruling, shedding new light on pre-trial hearings that have dragged on for more than a year. Beijing imposed a sweeping security law on Hong Kong after huge and sometimes violent democracy protests. The law has criminalised most dissent and transfor ... more |
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Escalating evidence of crimes in Myanmar: UN investigators 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 |
Lockheed Martin delivers integrated multi-mission laser weapon system to US Navy San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered to the U.S. Navy a 60+ kW-class high energy laser with integrated optical-dazzler and surveillance (HELIOS), the first tactical laser weapon system to be integrated into existing ships and provide directed energy capability to the fleet. Integrated and scalable by design, the multi-mission HELIOS system will provide tactically relevant laser weapon sys ... more |
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