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  Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 The U.S. Army successfully intercepted a high-performance, high-speed tactical ballistic missile (TBM) target and a cruise missile target during a flight test using the Northrop Grumman Corporation Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS). The target missiles were part of the second of two live-fire tests during the Army's IBCS Limited User Test (LUT) at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, and demonstrated the system's ability to acquire, track, identify and engage diverse targets from various l ... read more |
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US Japan to build network of missile-intercepting satellitesWashington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2020 The United States and Japan are to jointly build a network of small satellites capable of detecting new missiles, as Tokyo warns of increasing threats from North Korea. The purpose of the sate ... more  
Ball Aerospace completes small satellite, Green Fuel MissionBoulder CO (SPX) Aug 25, 2020 Ball Aerospace has successfully completed on-orbit testing of NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM), which included ASCENT, a non-toxic, high-performance propellant developed by the Air Fo ... more  
Russian cosmonaut sheds light on how ISS crew deals with suspected air leakMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 25, 2020 Russian cosmonaut Ivan Wagner recently noted that the crew has everything it needs and can engage in physical training and Earth observation experiments. As the current crew of the Internatio ... more 
Safety of SpaceX suits an 'open question' says Russian designerMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 25, 2020 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off on 30 May 2020, marking the first US space launch in a decade since the suspension of the Space Shuttle Program. The ... more |
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Vega launch now set for 1 SeptemberParis (ESA) Aug 18, 2020 A new launch date of 1 September 2020 has been announced by Arianespace for Vega flight VV16. Due to the persistence of exceptionally unfavourable winds at altitude over Europe's Spaceport, Ve ... more  
B-52s arrive in Britain for NATO exercisesWashington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2020 Six B-52 Stratofortress bombers of the U.S. Air Force arrived in Britain over the weekend for long-planned NATO flight training exercises, officials said on Monday. ... more 
Russia testing news S-500 Systems, mass production on the wayMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 25, 2020 Deputy Defence Minister Aleksey Krivoruchko announced that Russia Armed Forces are looking to receive the first batch of the newest systems in 2021. The full-scale supply of the S-500s is scheduled ... more  
Report: Russia now has 'holistic' approach to warfareWashington DC (UPI) Aug 21, 2020 A report on Russia's military doctrine indicates a shift away from reliance on nuclear capability and emphasis on the military as only one element of strategy. ... more 
Jacqueline D. Van Ovost becomes only female four-star leader in DoDWashington DC (UPI) Aug 20, 2020 Jacqueline D. Van Ovost became commander of Air Mobility Command and the fifth female four-star leader in Air Force history Thursday - and the only woman with four stars currently serving in the military. ... more |
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Why do 'non-lethal' weapons maim and kill protesters?Nicosia (AFP) Aug 20, 2020 Riot police from Beirut and Baghdad to Hong Kong and Minsk often use so-called "non-lethal" weapons for crowd control - so why do protesters keep dying and being maimed? ... more  |
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Enemy jammer takes first test flight aboard EA-18G GrowlerWashington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2020 An advanced electronic system to disrupt enemy communications was successfully used aboard a fighter plane for the first time, maker Raytheon said on Monday. ... more 
U.S. Army pilot commitment extended to 10 yearsWashington DC (UPI) Aug 21, 2020 Army pilots will be required to serve at least 10 years, four years longer than the previous policy, Army officials said this week. ... more  
Iran unveils missiles with increased rangeTehran (AFP) Aug 20, 2020 Iran on Thursday unveiled two missiles it said had a bigger range than before, naming them after commanders killed in January by a US strike in Iraq. ... more 
SpaceX sets rocket booster reuse record in satellite launchWashington DC (UPI) Aug 18, 2019 SpaceX reused the same first-stage Falcon 9 rocket booster for the sixth time in a launch from Florida Tuesday morning, setting a record for the launch industry. ... more 
Artificial intelligence wins over man in simulated aerial dogfightWashington DC (UPI) Aug 21, 2020 An artificial intelligence algorithm soundly defeated an experienced U.S. F-16 fighter pilot in a simulation of an aerial dogfight, the Pentagon said. ... more |
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 Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Aug 25, 2020 
Under a recent contract award, Orbit Logic will provide the enterprise scheduling solution for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ground stations and satellites. NOAA has named the new system to be provided by Orbit Logic the Enterprise Automated Scheduling Implementation (EASI) planning system. The EASI system aims to be just that - easy.
The Office of Satellite and Pr ... more |
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 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 
Airbus has been contracted by Arabsat, one of the world's top satellite operators, to build BADR-8, their new generation telecommunications satellite. BADR-8 will replace and increase Arabsat's capacity and augment its core business at the BADR hotspot 26E.
The BADR-8 satellite will be based on the-state-of-the-art Airbus Eurostar Neo electric orbit raising platform giving access to a wide ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 18, 2020 
Global acceptance and application of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System will gather momentum on the back of further integration with telecom technologies like 5G and the internet of things, company executives and experts said.
Their comments came after Beidou started offering full-scale global services on July 31. More importantly, navigation technologies are increasingly intertwin ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
Mark the big one-of-a-kind engine, designed and built just for NASA, as delivered.
Nearly 13 feet long, three feet in diameter, and packing 22,000 pounds of afterburner enhanced jet propulsion, the F414-GE-100 engine is now at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base in California.
There it will be checked out and inspected before it is transported to nearby ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 20, 2020 
The U.S. government must entice companies to do more microelectronics manufacturing in the United States, the Pentagon's undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment said Thursday.
During a prerecorded "fireside chat" at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Electronics Resurgence Initiative summit, Ellen Lord said the fact that most microelectronics are manufactured offshor ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 25, 2020 
China's best optical Earth-observation satellite for civil use has finished its in-orbit tests and started formal operation on Thursday.
At a handover ceremony at the China National Space Administration on Thursday morning, designers of the Gaofen 7 announced that the satellite had begun serving its major users-the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Deve ... more |
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 Port Louis, Mauritius (AFP) Aug 24, 2020  The broken stem of a Japanese-owned ship which ran aground causing a devastating oil spill in pristine waters off Mauritius, has been successfully sunk in the open ocean, the national crisis committee said Monday.
The MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island on July 25 and began leaking oil two weeks later, prompting a race against the clock to pump all the fuel of ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2020 
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 8 million km away from Earth and is functioning normally, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration Thursday.
As of 11:20 pm Wednesday, the Mars probe has traveled 8.23 million km away from Earth. Starting from 10:20 pm Wednesday, multiple payloads on the Mars probe, including M ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
The U.S. Army successfully intercepted a high-performance, high-speed tactical ballistic missile (TBM) target and a cruise missile target during a flight test using the Northrop Grumman Corporation Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS).
The target missiles were part of the second of two live-fire tests during the Army's IBCS Limited User Test (LUT) at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexic ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Aug 20, 2020  Iran on Thursday unveiled two missiles it said had a bigger range than before, naming them after commanders killed in January by a US strike in Iraq.
"Regarding cruise missiles, today we have gone from a range of 300 to 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) in less than two years," said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, during a televised ceremony in Tehran.
The revealing of the missiles comes a ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just 5 nanometers thick, is the thinnest material ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 10, 2020 
Human Rights Watch said Monday it was seeking a new international treaty to halt the race towards fully autonomous weapons, claiming a growing number of countries wanted an outright ban.
The non-governmental organisation (NGO) said 30 countries are now explicitly seeking a ban, after compiling an overview of 97 nations with a stated position on the use and development of what it termed "kill ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 19, 2020 
Britain and Belgium signed a statement of intent to work together after both countries acquire the MQ-9B drone, they announced this week.
The Remotely Piloted Aircraft System is built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of San Diego, and is known as the Protector RG Mk1 in Europe.
In remote signing ceremonies on Tuesday, Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston of the Royal Air Force a ... more |
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