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  Santa Fe NM (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 Solstar Space (Solstar), the company making persistent on-orbit communications available, announced it was awarded a Phase I STTR contract by the Department of Air Force (DAF) to evaluate the company's Slayton Space Communicator for high-speed data communications. Solstar Space is developing a flight-proven modular device for spacecraft integration capable of providing satellite operators near real-time command and control through a 24/7 high bandwidth downlink and uplink data relay known as the S ... read more |
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Babcock secures UK Military Skynet satellite contractSpace Coast FL (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded Babcock International Group a six-year contract to manage and operate Skynet, the MOD's military satellite communications system, on Februa ... more  
NATO debates raising defence spending targetBrussels (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 NATO members relaunched debate Wednesday on the thorny issue of ramping up national defence spending targets as Russia's war on Ukraine has upended security. ... more  
Ukraine munition appetite tests Western defence industryParis (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 Ukraine is urging allies for more weapons to fight Russia but experts warn the West is struggling to produce enough ammunition for the arms it has already donated to Kyiv. ... more  
Canada stops funding sensitive research with hostile foreign actorsMontreal (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 Canada will stop funding research projects on sensitive topics if any of the researchers involved are connected with defense or security entities of hostile foreign states, the government announced Tuesday. ... more |
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U.S. Space Force awards Phase III SBIR contract to AstranisSan Francisco (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 San Francisco-based geostationary communications satellite operator and manufacturer Astranis Space Technologies announced on February 14, that they won a U.S. Space Force contract worth up to $10 m ... more  
ALL.SPACE builds up executive team ahead of smart terminal rolloutReading UK (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 ALL.SPACE, creator of the world's first smart terminal, has announced the latest in a series of strategic executive team appointments ahead of milestone deliveries of its transformational multi-link ... more  
Astroscale wins Dstl funding for exploration of future Space-Based Space Domain Awareness missionsHarwell UK (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 Astroscale has won funding from the MOD Defence Science and Technology Laboratory funding to explore space-based space domain awareness (SB-SDA) mission concepts for launch in the 2030s. Astro ... more 
Sidius Space reaches an agreement with a Dutch organization to Deploy Lasercom MissionSpace Coast FL (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, known as TNO, has awarded a $2.5 million contract to a satellite and space defense manufacturer Sidus Space. On February 15 Sidius ... more |
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Ursa Space launches Python Toolbox API on Esri ArcGIS Pro SoftwareIthaca NY (SPX) Feb 14, 2023 Ursa Space Systems, a leading satellite-analytics-as-a-service provider, has announced the release of a Python toolbox for satellite analytic and data ordering within Esri ArcGIS Pro, a full-feature ... more 
Umbra agrees to provide Maxar direct access to SAR ConstellationSpace Coast FL (SPX) Feb 15, 2023 Maxar Technologies has signed a contract for dedicated access to Umbra' Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery constellation, the companies announced February 14. SAR satellites are able to se ... more  
AccelerComm, TTP set to soar with 5G NTN LEO Space CellSouthampton UK (SPX) Feb 13, 2023 AccelerComm, the 5G IP specialists, has partnered with UK-based technology development firm TTP to jointly develop a 5G LEO Regenerative base station designed for deployment on low-earth orbit (LEO) ... more  
Large number of launches plannedBeijing (XNA) Feb 14, 2023 China plans to carry out more than 70 launch missions this year, according to the nation's major space contractors. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's dominant space ent ... more |
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NanoAvionics doubles overall production capacity with MAIT expansionVilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Feb 10, 2023 Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics), a small satellite mission integrator and bus manufacturer, has recently opened its manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing (MAIT) facility in Vilnius ... more  
Spacecraft controllers aim for the heightsBeijing (XNA) Feb 14, 2023 Like many office workers, Hu Guolin and his colleagues deal with figures, charts and graphics on their computer screens. However, the information in front of Hu's team comes from Earth's orbit ... more  
Iran woos Chinese, other tourists as Westerners stay awayTehran (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 Western tourists, who flocked to Iran just a few years ago, are being advised by their governments to stay away, forcing the Islamic republic's struggling tourism industry to look elsewhere. ... more  
Cornell AI tool designed to prevent online conversations from escalating into 'incendiary language'Washington DC (UPI) Feb 14, 2023 Researchers at Cornell University have developed and are testing an artificial intelligence tool that can track online conversations in real time, alerting a person before conversations get too heated. ... more 
US seeks to deflate Chinese balloon worries; as US jets intercept Russian aircraftWashington (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 The White House sought Tuesday to take the air out of an escalating diplomatic crisis with Beijing, saying that preliminary evidence suggests three unidentified aerial objects shot down by US jets were not involved in a broader Chinese spy balloon program. ... more |
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 Bratislava (AFP) Feb 9, 2023 
Germany will give Bratislava two sets of the MANTIS air defence system to protect Slovakia's eastern border with Ukraine, the Slovak defence ministry said Thursday.
"Slovakia will receive the systems free of charge and permanently," the ministry spokeswoman Martina Kakascikova told AFP.
"The training of Slovak soldiers to use the system will begin in the coming months," Slovak Defence M ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 
The joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) completed yet another successful flight test. The Lockheed Martin version of the missile, with its Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet, capped a program that accomplished all of its initial objectives. It was the final flight test for HAWC, which is providing critical data to inform Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) hype ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2023  A US warplane shot down another flying object on Sunday, this time over Lake Huron on the US-Canadian border, the fourth in a dramatic series that began with the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon a week ago.
Jittery Americans have been watching the skies as the mysterious incursions unfolded against a backdrop of acute tensions with China - although only the first object has so far ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2023 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully demonstrated its gateway technology in a flight test that proved the ability to connect airborne platforms with naval assets. The first-of-its-kind demonstration was conducted with Naval Air Systems Command, Office of Naval Research, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific and BAE Systems.
"Our gateways provide an open, secure and resi ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2023  The US Army announced Tuesday that it had awarded $522 million in orders to two companies to manufacture 155 mm artillery ammunition for Ukraine.
The orders, officially decided on January 30, went to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. and Global Military Products Inc. and came amid worries that Ukraine was fast depleting the stockpiles of artillery shells from the United States and other allies. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 13, 2023 
Ukraine is urging allies for more weapons to fight Russia but experts warn the West is struggling to produce enough ammunition for the arms it has already donated to Kyiv.
"The war in Ukraine is consuming an enormous amount of munitions, and depleting allied stockpiles," NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg told journalists on Monday.
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 Brussels (AFP) Feb 12, 2023 
The NATO alliance confirmed Sunday that its long-serving chief would leave office in October, launching a new round of speculation about his successor.
Diplomats in Brussels say there is no consensus as to who should replace former Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg as the Western alliance's top civilian official.
Some allies were considering a plan to extend his already nine-year ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2022 
Computer chips are packed with billions of microscopic transistors that enable powerful computation, but also generate a great deal of heat. A buildup of heat can slow a computer processor and make it less efficient and reliable. Engineers employ heat sinks to keep chips cool, sometimes along with fans or liquid cooling systems; however, these methods often require a lot of energy to operate. ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Feb 5, 2023 
Iraqi activists protested Sunday to demand a law against domestic violence, days after a YouTuber was strangled by her father in a killing that sparked outrage in the conservative country.
Tiba al-Ali, 22, was killed by her father on January 31 in the southern province of Diwaniyah, interior ministry spokesman Saad Maan had said on Twitter on Friday.
Maan said there had been an attempt t ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 15, 2023  For decades, children in the United States and the Soviet Union were drilled on what to do in a nuclear war. One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, could the danger have returned for new generations?
Within days of Moscow's attack, President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilization of Russian nuclear forces, stunning the world.
Washington bashed such talk as "dangerous" and "irrespo ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Feb 15, 2023 
China will resume issuing short-term visas for South Korean nationals on February 18, the Chinese embassy in Seoul said Wednesday.
The move follows South Korea's decision last week to end Covid-linked travel restrictions on Chinese nationals - rules that sparked a furious response and tit-for-tat measures from Beijing.
From Saturday, the Chinese embassy in Seoul and other consulates "wi ... more |
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 Aleppo, Syria (AFP) Feb 14, 2023 
A Saudi Arabian plane carrying aid to quake-hit Syria landed in second city Aleppo Tuesday - the first in more than a decade of war, a transport ministry official told AFP.
Planeloads of foreign aid have landed in Syria since a 7.8-magnitude quake struck the war-torn country and neighbouring Turkey killing more than 35,000 people.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 10, 2023 
A crew of Chinese astronauts on a six-month mission aboard the country's newly completed space station ventured outside the orbiter for the first time Friday for what became a successful spacewalk.
Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong and Zhang Lu donned the puffy white space suits and exited the station to conduct the 7-hour walk, while the third astronaut, Deng Qingming, stayed behind to mo ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 15, 2023  Several hundred retirees staged a protest in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday, according to witnesses and images on social media, following local anger over reforms to the public health insurance system.
Protests are rare in China, where authorities strictly enforce public order laws and opposition is quickly snuffed out.
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 2, 2023 
A Pakistani who was tortured by the CIA and held in the Guantanamo Bay prison for 16 years after admitting to helping Al Qaeda was released to Belize, the US military announced Thursday.
Majid Khan, captured by US authorities in 2003 and interrogated by US intelligence for three years before being sent to Guantanamo, admitted in a 2012 plea deal to joining a plot to assassinate Pakistan's pr ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2023  The United States on Monday criticized China's reported use of military-grade laser light against a Philippine coast guard vessel in the disputed South China Sea last week, which left the ship's crew temporarily blinded.
State Department Ned Price said the Chinese coastguard's "conduct was provocative and unsafe, resulting in the temporary blindness of the crew members."
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