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  Moscow (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 Russian investigators said they had opened a criminal probe into a failed rocket launch that caused a two-man crew to make an emergency landing shortly after blast-off to the ISS on Thursday. "An investigative group has been formed and officials are currently examining the launch site, documents are being seized," the Investigative Committee said in a statement. The probe would seek to determine whether safety regulations had been violated during construction, leading to massive damage, the sta ... read more |
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Indian defence chief rebuts Rafale allegations on France visitParis (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 India's defence minister faced new questions Thursday over a 2016 deal to buy Rafale fighter jets from France, which critics say unfairly profited a key backer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ... more  
Pentagon grounds global fleet of F-35s after crashWashington (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 The Pentagon grounded the global fleet of F-35 stealth fighters Thursday so that engineers could conduct urgent inspections following the first ever crash of the costliest plane in history. ... more  
Trump says China thinks US is 'stupid,' vows more painWashington (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 President Donald Trump on Thursday accused China of thinking Americans are "stupid" and vowed that he was ready to inflict economic pain on the Asian power. ... more  
Lockheed Martin Delivers 300th THAAD InterceptorWashington DC (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 Lockheed Martin has delivered the 300th interceptor for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the only system in the world designed to intercept threats both inside and outside the ... more |
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UN is only option in multilateral discussion of outer spaceLondon UK (Sputnik) Oct 11, 2018 Analysts have warned that the global space race is becoming more and more competitive. Peter Diamandis, Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation told the portal Axios that tycoons and political leaders ar ... more  
United Launch Alliance building rocket of the future with industry-leading strategic partnershipsCentennial CO (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 United Launch Alliance's (ULA) next-generation rocket - the Vulcan Centaur - is making strong progress in development and is on track for its initial flight in mid-2020. The Vulcan Centaur rocket de ... more  
High-res data offer most detailed look yet at trawl fishing footprint around the worldSeattle WA (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 About a quarter of the world's seafood caught in the ocean comes from bottom trawling, a method that involves dragging a net along the ocean's shelves and slopes to scoop up shrimp, cod, rockfish, s ... more  
When debris overwhelms spaceBethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 We see more and more reports of debris concern among satellite operators and space observers. Add to this the many recent announcements of multiple broadband satellite constellations that are being ... more 
Boeing HorizonX Ventures invests in Accion Systems to propel satellite capabilitiesChicago IL (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 Boeing has announced its investment in Accion Systems Inc., a Boston, Mass.,-based startup pioneering scalable electric propulsion technology to transform satellite capabilities in and beyond Earth' ... more |
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 BAE to provide Paladin 155mm artillery systems for U.S. Army 
Gentex, Teledyne to provide visors for blinding laser protectionWashington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018 Gentex and Teledyne Scientific and Imaging have each been awarded a $98.3 million contract for laser eye protection for pilots. ... more  |
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Boeing to upgrade F/A-18, EA-18 test stations for U.S. NavyWashington (UPI) Oct 11, 2018 Boeing has received an order to upgrade existing test stations for servocylinders and electro-hydraulic valves on the F/A-18 A-F and EA-18G aircraft. ... more  
Kurdish, Iraqi forces arrest IS financiers: coalitionWashington (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 Ten members of a key financial network for the Islamic State network have been arrested in Iraq, the US-led coalition fighting the jihadists announced Thursday. ... more  
China says US seeks to 'disturb' Xinjiang policiesBeijing (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 China on Thursday accused the United States of seeking to "disturb" its security policies after a US congressional report said Beijing's mass internment of Muslim minorities may constitute "crimes against humanity". ... more 
Germany open to selling arms to Saudis despite Yemen warBerlin (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 Germany's government has left the door open to exporting arms to Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Yemen conflict, the news weekly Der Spiegel reported Wednesday, seemingly in spite of a deal within the country's ruling coalition. ... more  
China, Russia push to ease N. Korea sanctions as Seoul mulls optionsSeoul (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 China and Russia have backed easing sanctions on Pyongyang "at an appropriate time", as South Korea's foreign minister said Seoul was mulling lifting its own measures, threatening cracks in global restrictions on the nuclear-armed North. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has delivered the 300th interceptor for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the only system in the world designed to intercept threats both inside and outside the atmosphere. The production maturity milestone comes as demand for the company's hit-to-kill missile defense system and interceptors continues to grow.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has been tapped for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile production, and test vehicles, for foreign military sales customers, though the Department of Defense did not specify what country was buying the missiles.
The $390 million deal, comes under a firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive-fee contract, announced Friday by the Pentagon.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2018 
AeroVironment has received a $13 million contract for Raven RQ-11B small unmanned aircraft systems.
The contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, covers recurring requirements for RQ-11B SUAS, spare parts, related equipment and training.
The SUAS will be directed to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility, which includes nations in Central America, South ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
SATConsult, a leading satellite engineering consultancy and member of Euroconsult Group, has been selected by ESA to lead a consortium, composed of RHEA Group, Airbus and Space Hellas, to help develop a secure, independent, and centralized digital platform for Pooling and Sharing (P and S) satellite communication resources.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2018 
Raytheon announced it will demonstrate a new guided munition for the U.S. Army's shoulder-launched Carl-Gustaf system, a man-portable weapon system built by Saab.
The two companies have been working together since 2017 to develop a guided munition for the weapon, with plans for test firing of the new product set for sometime in 2020 in Sweden.
"Collaborating with Raytheon, utiliz ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Oct 10, 2018  Germany's government has left the door open to exporting arms to Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Yemen conflict, the news weekly Der Spiegel reported Wednesday, seemingly in spite of a deal within the country's ruling coalition.
There would be no German arms embargo on countries taking part in the Yemen conflict, which has left 10,000 people dead since 2015, the news weekly said on its we ... more |
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 Hook Of Holland, Netherlands (AFP) Oct 10, 2018  A convoy of British troops landed in The Netherlands on Wednesday en route to NATO's largest exercise since the Cold War, pledging London's commitment to defend the continent despite Brexit.
The contingent of some 150 soldiers on board 71 military vehicles rolled off a civilian passenger ferry in the Hook of Holland port after travelling overnight from Harwich.
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 Newark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plastic-like particles.
Now, Hojin Kim, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, together with a team of collaborating scientists at the Max Planck ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 
Ten members of a key financial network for the Islamic State network have been arrested in Iraq, the US-led coalition fighting the jihadists announced Thursday.
Iraqi commandos and Kurdish counter-terrorism forces arrested the members of the al-Rawi network in operations October 7-9 in Baghdad and Erbil in northern Iraq, the coalition said in a statement.
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 Seoul (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 
China and Russia have backed easing sanctions on Pyongyang "at an appropriate time", as South Korea's foreign minister said Seoul was mulling lifting its own measures, threatening cracks in global restrictions on the nuclear-armed North.
Pyongyang is sanctioned under multiple UN Security Council resolutions over its weapons programmes and has repeatedly called for the measures to be loosened ... more |
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 Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 
The world's financial elite are gathering in the Indonesian holiday island Bali for talks with trade spats and emerging markets crises topping the agenda.
Here are some facts and figures about the high-level gathering:
- Quakes, tsunamis, volcanoes -
Disaster-prone Indonesia is no stranger to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as the sprawling archipelago sits along the Pacific "Ri ... more |
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 Rabat (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 
The Moroccan navy opened fire on a boat transporting migrants from the North African country, wounding one of them, a military source said on Wednesday.
Despite warning shots, "the motorboat that was carrying 58 migrants hidden under tarpaulin made a hostile move which forced the coastguard to fire at the captain," said the source in Rabat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space.
The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 10, 2018 
China is undertaking unprecedented repression of its ethnic minorities including Muslim Uighurs, with authoritarian tactics potentially constituting "crimes against humanity" as human rights conditions deteriorate, a damning US congressional report released Wednesday concluded.
The bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China said in its annual report repression has worsened in rec ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 
The US-led military alliance battling the Islamic State group faces "a tough fight" to oust the jihadists from their last holdouts in Syria, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday.
While the extremists have lost almost all of the self-declared "caliphate" they held across Iraq and Syria four years ago, Mattis warned that destroying the group completely was "still going to take some tim ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2018 
Lockheed Martin, General Atomics and Boeing have received contract modifications for drone-mounted Low Power Laser Demonstrator system missile defense testing.
Lockheed Martin's contract has increased to a total value of $37.7 million, while General Atomics and Boeing's have been increased to $34 million and $29.4 million respectively, the Department of Defense announced on Friday.
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