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Israel postpones vital Arrow-3 flight testTel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Sep 25, 2012 The crucial first test-firing of Israel's Arrow-3 interceptor missile, designed to destroy ballistic weapons, reportedly has been postponed despite efforts to boost the Jewish state's missile defenses amid threats of pre-emptive strikes against Iran. The development of the Arrow-3 program, which is being carried out by state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries and Boeing of the United States, is a year behind schedule. The first full-scale test, firing the two-stage missile against a simul ... read more |
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  Bryan Campen joins XCOR as Director of Media and Public Relations XCOR Aerospace reports that Bryan Campen has joined the company as its Director of Media and Public Relations. Members of the press and media are invited to update their records. Campen will b ... more | .. |
  SMARTCAP - Funding opportunity for companies with promising medical products for use on Earth, in space Do you know of a small company developing a medical product that could be adapted to solve a health or human performance challenge in space? Have you developed a biomedical product for the space pro ... more | .. |
  ORBITEC Has Real "Vision" For Its New AUSEP Rocket Engine Orbital Technologies recently conducted several key rocket engine technology demonstrations at its large engine test facility in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Under observation by representatives from b ... more | .. |
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  China to promote drones for marine surveillance China will promote the use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to strengthen the nation's marine surveillance, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said on Sunday. The SOA verifie ... more | .. |
 Iran tests missiles, unveils drone amid Israel tensions Iran has tested anti-air and anti-ship missiles and unveiled a new drone, its powerful Revolutionary Guards said on Monday, in a show of military readiness for a war with Israel their chief says is inevitable. ... more | .. |
  Basing of first US Space Fence facility announced The Air Force will base a Space Fence radar site on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands with initial operations capability planned for fiscal 2017. The Fence will provide ... more | .. |
 Space debris threatens ISS: report The International Space Station is in danger of being hit by two pieces of debris from an old Russian satellite that had previously hit a US craft in 2009, a news report said on Wednesday. ... more |
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Syrian troops move into Suwayda as violence continues
32 killed near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run Health Ministry says
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  Toyota unveils robot helping hand Japanese car giant Toyota on Wednesday unveiled a robotic best friend that can offer a helping hand around the house fetching and carrying for the elderly or immobile. ... more | .. |
  Astrium - double prime contractor for Astra 2F satellite launch Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, is prime contractor for both the Ariane 5 launcher and the Astra 2F satellite scheduled for launch from the European Space Centre in Kourou, Frenc ... more | .. |
 Loral and MDA Receive Approval for SS/L Sale From the Committee on Foreign Investment in US Loral Space and Communications has announced that Loral and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) were notified recently by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) ... more | .. |
 Vietnam launches construction of national satellite center A groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the Vietnam Satellite Center was held at Hoa Lac High-tech Park in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Wednesday. The center, scheduled to be completed by ... more |
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  UK's Cubesat books a ride on Russian rocket UKube-1 - the UK's first cubesat mission - has 'booked' its journey into space on a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Kazakhstan is expected to take place in March 2 ... more | .. |
The next wave in US robotic war: drones on their own The US military's current fleet of drones will soon be overtaken by a new wave of robots that will be faster, stealthier and smarter - operating virtually without human intervention, experts say. ... more | .. |
 AUVSI Praises State-Based Effort To Move Unmanned Aircraft Technology Forward Today, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) applauded the Aerospace States Association's (ASA) call on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to move forward with it ... more | .. |
 Iran unveils 'indigenous' drone Iran has unveiled its own, "indigenous" drone which it said was capable of flying over most of the Middle East, media report. The Witness 129 unmanned drone has a range of 2,000km and can be equippe ... more |
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New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure
Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India
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  Lockheed Martin's DAGR Missile Demonstrates Ground Launch Capability In Guided Flight Tests Lockheed Martin recently conducted two separate DAGR missile flight tests, successfully firing the missiles from a prototype pedestal launcher and hitting a stationary target. The tests, which ... more | .. |
  Chinese citizen arrested over US military exports A Chinese citizen has been charged in New York with illegally attempting to export highly restricted material from the United States for use by China's air force, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Poland seeking 70 new military helicopters: PM NATO-member Poland is in the market for 70 new military helicopters, more than double the number it first sought in March, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Boeing Receives Contract for 11 P-8A Poseidon Aircraft The U.S. Navy on Sept. 21 awarded Boeing [NYSE: BA] a $1.9 billion contract for 11 P-8A Poseidon aircraft, which will take the total fleet to 24 and bolster the service's anti-submarine, anti-surfac ... more |
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 Raytheon MALD-J Decoy Goes 4 for 4 in Operational Flight Tests The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon have begun operational testing of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer (MALD-J). After completing a highly successful developmental test phase, the MALD-J team ach ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Completes Field Installations of New B-2 Radar System Northrop Grumman has completed - ahead of schedule - all field installations of a new radar system for the U.S. Air Force's fleet of B-2 stealth bombers. Every operational B-2 is now equipped ... more | .. |
 Raytheon and PACAF expand the reach of realistic training environments Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions (RTCS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon has announced that its SimShield customer, U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) and its 353d Combat Training Squadron, ha ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Extend BACN Communications Connectivity to the Tactical Edge The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $20 million contract modification to add beyond-line-of-sight command and control (BLOS C2) capabilities to the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node ... more |
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Swatch profits plunge on weak China sales
Zuckerberg settles lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal
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 US Army Awards Lockheed Martin Apache M-TADS/PNVS Performance Based Logistics Contract Lockheed Martin has received a $111 million Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract from the U.S. Army. ... more | .. |
  Seven Britons, five Chinese dead in Nepal air crash: police Seven Britons and five Chinese are among the dead in a plane crash Friday on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu which killed all 19 on board, according to a revised police toll. ... more | .. |
Chinese crew rescued as boat burns in Japan A dozen Chinese crew members were rescued by Japan's coastguard when their Panama-registered boat caught fire in a Japanese bay, an official said Friday. ... more | .. |
EU grants Pakistan flood, unrest aid The European Commission said Thursday it will release another 15 million euros in aid ($19 million) to Pakistan where tens of thousands of people are affected by flood and unrest. ... more |
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Outside View: The militarization of aid Although aid and the military are often seen as being diametrically opposed, the skill sets and approaches that both efforts require for success are like a horse shoe, where the seemingly opposite ends are in fact closer to one another than the views and practices represented by the majority who hold space in the middle ground. The U.S. government first recognized the utility of foreign aid as a tool of diplomacy during World War II with the Marshall Plan. The U.S. military and international aid infrastructures both grew over the intervening decades and their identities have diverged in the public eye, but in practice are increasingly intertwined. ... more | .. |
 Sixteen hospitalised in chemicals leak in Slovakia Sixteen people were hospitalised for exposure to poisonous gasses in a leak Wednesday at a former chemical plant in Slovakia's capital Bratislava, the police said. ... more | .. |
 AsiaSat Disposes of its Entire Interest in SpeedCast Holdings Limited Asia's leading satellite operator, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) has signed an agreement with SpeedCast Acquisitions Limited for the disposal of its entire interest in ... more | .. |
 Satellites to the rescue: Disaster monitoring network extends its services to all Building on a decade of success in making satellite data available to users for disaster response, the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' has opened its doors even wider and is now pr ... more |
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