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Reagan's 'Star Wars' at 40: Battle of the satellites![]() Washington (AFP) March 22, 2023 Forty years after US president Ronald Reagan stunned the nation and world with his "Star Wars" plan to take nuclear competition into outer space, a new battle of the satellites has emerged in the stratosphere. Largely because it far outpaced technology at the time, very little became of Reagan's March 23, 1983 declaration that the United States would head to space to seek absolute supremacy in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Nevertheless space ultimately has become a major theater of strateg ... read more |
Chip war and censorship hobble Chinese tech giants in chatbot raceBeijing (AFP) March 22, 2023 Search giant Baidu's lacklustre unveiling of its chatbot exposed gaps in China's race to rival ChatGPT, as censorship and a US squeeze on chip imports have hamstrung the country's artificial intelligence ambitions. ... more
Blinken dismisses China's 'marriage of convenience' with RussiaWashington (AFP) March 22, 2023 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday brushed off China's diplomacy with Russia as a "marriage of convenience," and said Beijing had not yet provided military aid to "junior partner" Moscow to fight in Ukraine. ... more
Xi departs Moscow, Russia strikes Ukraine schoolKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) March 22, 2023 A Russian drone attack on a school near Kyiv killed at least four people before Chinese leader Xi Jinping left Moscow on Wednesday at the close of a summit with President Vladimir Putin. ... more
USSF announces university opportunities Beyond GEO operationsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 In partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Universities Space Research Association, the United States Space Force announced the establishment of a new University Consortium Research O ... more |
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Oversight Program aims to make space domain more tactically relevant for military planners, warfightersWashington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2023 DARPA aims to help military planners keep track of up to 1,000 targets of interest through management of available space domain resources. The goal of the Oversight program is to enable constant cus ... more
Sierra Space advances to the forefront of commercial and national security policy in the Orbital AgeLouisville CO (SPX) Mar 21, 2023 Sierra Space, a leading, pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, has announced the creation of a new strategy and government affair ... more
ReOrbit Signs a Deal With SatixFy to Co-Develop the On-Board Processor for ReOrbit's Highly Flexible Software-Defined Satellite GluonHelsinki, Iceland (SPX) Mar 17, 2023 ReOrbit, a leading provider of software-defined satellites, and SatixFy Communications Ltd. (NYSE AMERICAN: SATX), a leader in next-generation satellite communication systems based on in-house devel ... more
Rocket Lab to launch twin satellites for BlackSky from New ZealandLong Beach CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2023 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) will launch a pair of satellites on a dedicated Electron mission for BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) through global launch services provider Spaceflight, Inc., during a laun ... more |
NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology State of the Art ReportBethesda MD (SPX) Mar 14, 2023 In January 2023, NASA published the latest edition of the State of the Art in Small spacecraft Technology report. It is noteworthy that at the time of the first edition of this report in 2013, only ... more
Spirit AeroSystems, Astraius join forces to boost UK launch ambitionsPrestwick, Scotland (SPX) Mar 17, 2023 Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., and Astraius Ltd. announced today a collaboration to enhance future satellite launch capabilities from Prestwick Spaceport. During a visit to the Spaceport by Scottish Gove ... more
LinQuest and SpiderOak establish strategic partnership to offer cyber solutionsHerndon VA (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 LinQuest Corporation, a leader in national security space solutions and technology, and SpiderOak, the leader in zero-trust cybersecurity solutions for next generation space systems, announced today ... more
Russian navy 'repelled' drone attack on Crimea portMoscow (AFP) March 22, 2023 The Russian navy "repelled" a drone attack on the port of Sevastopol in Moscow-annexed Crimea early Wednesday, officials said. ... more |


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