Military space news - Spacewar.Com brings you daily news on war in the 21st century - military space news, nuclear weapons, missile defense, missiles, laser weapons. http://www.spacewar.com/index.html Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT en-us Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $1.14 billion contract for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System for Poland, Bahrain and Romania. The foreign military sales contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, covers full rate production for the GMLRS surface-to-surface systems for the three nations. Work on the contract is expected to run through Aug. 31, 2021, and will]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT Jens Stoltenberg will remain as NATO secretary general through to September 2022 after the organisation Thursday extended his mandate by two years. The former Norwegian prime minister arrived in the post in 2014 and had been handed a previous two-year extension to 2020. In a statement, the alliance said its 29 members had "expressed their support for the Secretary General's work to adapt]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government Thursday extended by six months an embargo on weapons exports to Saudi Arabia, instituted last October in response to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The ban has faced opposition from within the German government and the EU, but has the support of rights groups. "The order to halt authorised weapons exports to Saudi A]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT Australia announced a diplomatic boost to "turbo-charge" its China relations on Friday as it seeks to mend ties damaged by foreign interference concerns and a 5G bar on Huawei. Canberra unveiled plans for a new foundation to supercede the Australia-China Council, its long-time primary platform for relations with its largest trading partner. The government also announced that career diplo]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT Chinese telecom giant Huawei vowed on Friday to "shake off outside distractions" as it announced that its telecom infrastructure business contracted slightly in 2018 amid a global US campaign to blacklist the company over espionage fears. Huawei said net profit rose to 59.3 billion yuan ($8.8 billion) last year, up 25 percent. But its carrier business, which supplies telecom infrastructu]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT Britain has identified "significant" issues in Huawei's engineering processes that pose "new risks" for the nation's telecommunications, a government report found Thursday amid lingering global suspicion over the Chinese technology giant. "Further significant technical issues have been identified in Huawei's engineering processes, leading to new risks in the UK telecommunications networks," ]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT General Frank McKenzie on Thursday took over the leadership of the US Central Command, which oversees US military operations in countries including Syria and Afghanistan. At a ceremony led by Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, McKenzie pledged to continue the work done by his predecessor, General Joseph Votel, who is retiring. Votel for his part said that while the Islamic Sta]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT China on Thursday hit back at criticism from the United States' top diplomat who called its treatment of Muslims "shameful hypocrisy" after speaking with a former prisoner from a Chinese detention camp. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the comment after meeting with Mihrigul Tursun, a member of the Uighur ethnic group who has spoken publicly in the US about what she said was widespread]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT Russia's privately-owned S7 Space company will scrap a contract it has with a Ukrainian state rocket maker, Yuzhmash, on the production of 12 Zenit launch vehicles, the Russian firm's co-owner told Sputnik. "Yes, we are going to," Natalya Fileva, who owns the company together with her husband, Vladislav Filev, said, adding she could not name the exact date of the cancellation. Sputni]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT A sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) is one of the most frequently used orbits for Earth-science and national security missions. SSOs are near-polar orbits whose ascending nodes precess at a rate that is matched to the Earth's mean orbital rate around the sun, i. e., about one degree per day. This motion allows the maintenance of the orbit's geometry with respect to the sun such that solar lighti]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT The Afghan military could pose a serious threat to the country's security if international aid comes to an abrupt halt following a peace deal between the Taliban and the government, an official US report said Thursday. The findings come as the US seeks to broker a peace deal between the insurgent fighters and the internationally recognized government led by President Ashraf Ghani to end 17 y]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT The blastoff of the Meteor-M meteorological satellite number 2-2 by the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage from the Vostochny space center is scheduled to take place in three months, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos told Sputnik. "The blastoff date for Meteor is June 27 from Vostochny", it said. The Vostochny Cosmodrome has been under construction since 20]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT As part of a global industry research project, combustion experts from the University of Sydney's School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering are one step closer to developing a more efficient and cost-effective access to space platform for satellite launches. As part of the University's Clean Combustion Group, Associate Professor Matthew Cleary, Associate Professor Ben Tho]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has been awarded the prime contract to develop the next generation cluster of formation-flying microsatellites for HawkEye 360 Inc. of Herndon, Va. The HawkEye Constellation, comprised of multiple clusters of three satellites each, is the first of its kind to detect and geolocate radio frequency (RF) signals for maritime, emergency response, and spectrum analysis ap]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT GITAI (Head Office: San Francisco, US; Japanese Branch: Meguro, Tokyo) has signed a joint research agreement with JAXA (the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency). Experiments in using GITAI's robot as a substitute for astronauts in performing work have been conducted in a mock-up version of JAXA's Japanese Experiment Module for the International Space Station, "Kibo." The Japanese A]]> Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:29:47 GMT