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  McLean VA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network, and Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) have signed an agreement to build two software-defined satellites designed to advance Intelsat's global fabric of software-defined GEO connectivity as part of its 5G software-defined network. The addition of the Thales Alenia Space software-defined satellites represents an essential advancement in Intelsat's 5G software-defined netwo ... read more |
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Brown, Raymond warn of impacts to Air Force, Space Force if new budget is not approvedWashington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 The Air Force's and Space Force's highest ranking officers issued grim warnings to Congress Jan. 12, telling a House subcommittee that failing to approve a new spending plan for the current fiscal y ... more  
NATO chief says allies ready for more Russia talksBrussels (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 NATO allies have "significant differences" with Russia over its demands for new security rules in Europe, but are ready to meet Kremlin envoys again, the alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday. ... more 
US lays out case against 'unlawful' China maritime claimsWashington (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 The United States on Wednesday laid out its most detailed case yet against Beijing's "unlawful" claims in the South China Sea, rejecting both the geographic and historic bases for its vast, divisive map. ... more  
DARPA Selects Teams to Develop Lightweight, Enhanced Night Vision GogglesWashington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 DARPA has selected 10 industry and university research teams for the Enhanced Night Vision in Eyeglass Form (ENVision) program. Current night vision (NV) systems are bulky and heavy, resulting ... more |
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Swedish Security Police Warn of Space Wars With China, RussiaMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 13, 2022 Previously, the fictitious "Russian threat" mentioned by numerous agencies and security services, coupled with a media narrative of an "assertive" and "aggressive" Moscow has been cited as the reaso ... more  
US sanctions five North Koreans after missile launchWashington (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on five North Koreans linked to the country's ballistic missile program, a day after Pyongyang carried out what it said was the launch of a hypersonic missile. ... more 
Two Iranian ex-soldiers executed over police deathsTehran (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Two former Iranian soldiers have been executed over the 2019 deaths of two police officers, a senior judiciary official said Wednesday. ... more 
Iran sends French-Iranian academic back to prison: supportersParis (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Iran has sent back to prison from house arrest French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, her Paris-based support group said Wednesday, a shock development in the midst of hugely delicate talks on the Iranian nuclear drive. ... more 
Sri Lanka rules out IMF bailout, seeks new China loanColombo (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 Sri Lanka ruled out an IMF bailout on Wednesday and planned more loans, including from China, to address its worsening economic crisis - but was swiftly hit with another international ratings downgrade. ... more |
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Wife of activist barred from leaving China dies after 15 years apartBeijing (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 The wife of a repeatedly detained Chinese human rights lawyer died of cancer on Monday in the United States after her husband's pleas to be allowed to leave China and reunite with her went ignored, rights activists said. ... more  
Russia-led troops begin pullback from KazakhstanAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Jan 13, 2022 Over 2,000 Russia-led troops began withdrawing from Kazakhstan after being deployed when peaceful protests over an energy price hike turned into unprecedented violence claiming dozens of lives. ... more  
Israel commandos killed by friendly fire in West BankJerusalem (AFP) Jan 13, 2022 Two Israeli commando officers were killed by friendly fire in the occupied West Bank overnight, the army said on Thursday. ... more  
Five more Guantanamo detainees approved for releaseWashington (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 The US government has approved the release of five more prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, according to documents posted online this week by the Defense Department. ... more  
quub To Demonstrate Cybersecurity with SmallsatAkron, PA (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 Scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 13, 2022, quub's pocketqube smallsat will serve as a proof of concept for the prevention of data hacks. Data breaches cost millions o ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Dec 27, 2021 
L3Harris Technologies has completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite.
Completing the CDR is the final design milestone ensuring performance, cost and schedule requirements can be met b ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 10, 2022 
The United States and Japan will soon sign an agreement that will enable bilateral cooperation on developing defenses against hypersonic missiles and on new space-based capabilities, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
According to Blinken, in the coming days the United States and Japan will sign a new five-year host nation agreement that will support framework which will invest gre ... more |
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 Stockholm (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 
An autonomous drone carrying a defibrillator helped save the life of a 71-year-old man who suffered a cardiac arrest in Sweden, the man and the drone operator said Friday.
Emergency services dispatched the drone followed by an ambulance when Sven, a retiree who asked for his last name to be withheld, collapsed in early December while shovelling snow outside his home in the western town of Tr ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network, and Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) have signed an agreement to build two software-defined satellites designed to advance Intelsat's global fabric of software-defined GEO connectivity as part of its 5G software-defined network.
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's complementary position, navigation, and timing (PNT) AgilePod prototype achieved three important objectives in flight tests conducted here November 1-10.
The test team - representing a broad base of Air Force, Navy, and vendor organizations - successfully executed eight sorties aboard a T-38C aircraft, which included the first test of the PNT AgilePod on ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 28, 2021 
The United States renewed calls Tuesday for an arms embargo on Myanmar's junta after a Christmas Eve massacre in which Save the Children said two of the group's staff were killed.
"The targeting of innocent people and humanitarian actors is unacceptable, and the military's widespread atrocities against the people of Burma underscore the urgency of holding its members accountable," US Secreta ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 
The United States on Wednesday laid out its most detailed case yet against Beijing's "unlawful" claims in the South China Sea, rejecting both the geographic and historic bases for its vast, divisive map.
In a 47-page research paper, the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs said China had no basis under international law for claims that h ... more |
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that materials that are based on sandwich nanotubes retained their stiffness at lower densities.
Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) revealed how this ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Jan 9, 2022 
Iraq's new parliament held a heated inaugural session Sunday, three tense months after legislative elections won by Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, the likely kingmaker of the next government.
Sadr, 47, who once led an anti-US militia and who has a large and dedicated following, is expected to have the key say in who will serve as the next prime minister, a post now held by Mustafa al-Kadhemi. ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 
Two former Iranian soldiers have been executed over the 2019 deaths of two police officers, a senior judiciary official said Wednesday.
"The death penalty was applied against two perpetrators of an act of terrorism committed in February 2019," the head of the judicial authority in western Lorestan province, Mohammad Razm, was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 11, 2022 
Asian and European markets mixed Tuesday in cautious trade as investors grew increasingly concerned about the Federal Reserve's plans to wind back its financial support measures and lift interest rates within months.
While the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant plays on nerves, traders are now coming to terms with the imminent end to the pandemic era of ultra-cheap cash, which helped ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) Jan 10, 2022 
The tragic collapse of a cliff that left 10 dead in Brazil on Saturday was caused by torrential rains and more disasters could be on the way, meteorologist Estael Sias told AFP.
Two months of downpours have caused deadly flooding in several Brazilian states, including Bahia in the northeast and Minas Gerais in the southeast, where a huge column of rock crashed down on tourists boats on Furna ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 10, 2022 
The Shenzhou XIII astronauts in China's space station core module have completed the manual rendezvous and docking experiment with the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said Saturday.
At the beginning of the experiment, the astronauts in the core module teleoperated the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft to leave the front docking port of the core module's node cabin and mov ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 
Hong Kong will outlaw a host of new national security crimes, the city's leader said Wednesday, as she presided over the first session of a new "patriots only" legislature scrubbed of political opposition.
The law will add to an already sweeping national security law imposed directly on Hong Kong by Beijing that has transformed the international finance hub and empowered authorities to carry ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 12, 2022 
The US government has approved the release of five more prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, according to documents posted online this week by the Defense Department.
Three of the five detainees were from Yemen, one was from Somalia, and the fifth from Kenya.
They have spent a collective 85 years in the prison opened two decades ago for so-called "war on terror" detainees ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.
The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM and jointly managed by UNM's School of Engineering and UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). AFRL is recognized as the nation's ... more |
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