Space War: Your World at War

Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense February 22, 2019 NUKEWARS US military conducts observation flight over Russia usaf-boeing-oc-135b-open-skies-bg.jpg Washington (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 - The US military is conducting a surveillance flight over Russia as part of an international agreement, the Pentagon said Thursday. The flight falls under the Open Skies Treaty, an international accord aimed at promoting military transparency through reciprocal, unarmed observation flights over each of the 34 signatory countries' terrains. Due to tensions with Russia, this is the first ... more NUKEWARS Trump and Kim to have one-one-one meeting at Vietnam summit trump-kim-usa-korea-handshake-singapore-bg.jpg Washington (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 - US President Donald Trump will have a one-on-one meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong during their summit in Vietnam next week, a US official said Thursday. The two leaders, who met for the first time in Singapore last June, are due to hold talks in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi on February 27-28. Trump is seeking to persuade the North Korean leader to abandon his nuclear arsenal. ... more The Humans to Mars Summit 2019 - George Washington University - Washington May 14-16, 2019 SUPERPOWERS US, Japan, Australia start Cope North 2019 at Guam air base us-japan-australia-flags-bg.jpg Washington (UPI) Feb 21, 2019 - Nearly 100 aircraft and 3,000 personnel from the United States, Japan and Australia are participating in a joint exercise from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. Cope North 2019, which started Monday and is scheduled to run through March 8, involves the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Royal Australian Air Force, according to a U.S. Pacific Fo ... more SUPERPOWERS US, Britain conduct security drills, training in South China Sea south-china-sea-dispute-600-bg.jpg Washington (UPI) Feb 21, 2019 - The U.S. Navy's USNS Guadalupe replenishment oiler and the British Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose conducted maritime security and logistics training this week during separate Chinese drills in the highly disputed South China Sea. Participating in the exercise Monday were Royal Marine commandos, Royal Navy sailors and Guadalupe crew members, according to a U.S. Navy news release Wednesd ... more TECH SPACE NASA set to demonstrate x-ray communications in space international-space-station-nicer-x-ray-communication-bg.jpg Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 - A new experimental type of deep space communications technology is scheduled to be demonstrated on the International Space Station this spring. Currently, NASA relies on radio waves to send information between spacecraft and Earth. Emerging laser communications technology offers higher data rates that let spacecraft transmit more data at a time. This demonstration involves X-ray communicat ... more Military Radar Summit 2019 MILPLEX How Shanahan may end up as permanent Pentagon chief patrick-shanahan-bg.jpg Washington (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 - The US military is about to pull most troops out of Syria, seems set to slash its Afghanistan presence, and is engaged in a contentious mission on the border with Mexico. Yet the job of overseeing these momentous policies remains vacant - and President Donald Trump's interim pick is under fire from Republican lawmakers. The role is being filled by Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanah ... more NUKEWARS Iran announces 3-day navy drill from Gulf to Indian Ocean iran-revolutionary-guards-navy-bg.jpg Tehran (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 - Iran is to launch a three-day annual navy drill from Friday in a vast area of the Gulf and the Indian Ocean including a sensitive global shipping route, state TV reported on Thursday. "The drill will be held in the waters of Strait of Hormuz, Makran coast, Oman Sea and the north of the Indian Ocean, covering 2 million square kilometres and going on for three days," said Rear Admiral Hossein ... more SPACEWAR Air Force awards $739 million launch service contracts usaf-space-and-missile-systems-center-smc-los-angeles-bg.jpg Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 - The United States Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), gas awarded two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contracts. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has been awarded a $297 million firm-fixed-price contract, for launch services to deliver AFSPC-44, NROL-85, and NROL-87 to t ... more The online marketplace for anything space and aerospace related SPACEMART United Launch Services, SpaceX awarded satellite contracts usaf-evolved-expendable-launch-vehicle-eelv-delta-4-iv-atlas-5-falcon-9-bg.jpg Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2019 - United Launch Services was awarded a $441.7 million contract to launch military satellites to orbit, the U.S. Defense Department announced. The Space and Missile Systems Center of the U.S. Air Force, in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office, made the award for Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle launch services. Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, also re ... more MISSILE NEWS Saab contracted to upgrade Australian Army's rocket warning system counter-rocket-artillery-mortar-c-ram-bg.jpg Washington (UPI) Feb 21, 2019 - Saab said Thursday it will update equipment for the Australian Army's Wireless Audio Visual Emergency System used to detect incoming rockets, artillery and mortars. The Swedish company received the order for the C-RAM in December, according to a press release. WAVES equipment provides early warning audible and visual alerts when the C-RAM sensors detect and identify an incoming t ... more ROBO SPACE Can we trust scientific discoveries made using machine learning? supercomputer-the-little-green-machine-2-bg.jpg Washington DC (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 - Rice University statistician Genevera Allen says scientists must keep questioning the accuracy and reproducibility of scientific discoveries made by machine-learning techniques until researchers develop new computational systems that can critique themselves. Allen, associate professor of statistics, computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Rice and of pediatrics-neurolog ... more CHIP TECH Terahertz wireless makes big strides in paving the way to technological singularity remotely-zero-gravity-operation-bg.jpg Hiroshima, Japan (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 - Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation announced the successful development of a terahertz (THz) transceiver that can transmit or receive digital data at 80 gigabits per second (Gbit/s). The transceiver was implemented using silicon CMOS integrated circuit technology, which would have a great advantage for volume pro ... more MICROSAT BLITZ Interactive space simulation for nanosatellites open-cosmos-beeapp-application-interactive-space-simulation-nanosatellites-bg.jpg Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 - Pioneer partner Open Cosmos are taking mission development to a new dimension, using a virtual reality-like simulation that replicates life in orbit for space technologies. Through an innovative combination of a plug-and-play test platform and software, the UK Harwell-based SME is slashing the time it takes for space missions to be designed and qualified for launch. Their online 'bee ... more 2019 DoD Hypersonic Capabilities Symposium | April 17-18, 2019 | Alexandria, VA MICROSAT BLITZ Interactive space simulation for nanosatellites open-cosmos-beeapp-application-interactive-space-simulation-nanosatellites-bg.jpg Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 - Pioneer partner Open Cosmos are taking mission development to a new dimension, using a virtual reality-like simulation that replicates life in orbit for space technologies. Through an innovative combination of a plug-and-play test platform and software, the UK Harwell-based SME is slashing the time it takes for space missions to be designed and qualified for launch. Their online 'bee ... more WAR REPORT Around 200 US troops to remain in Syria after pullout: W.House ussocom-us-special-operations-ops-soldiers-bg.jpg Washington (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 - The US military will keep around 200 troops in Syria after President Donald Trump's pullout from the war-torn country, the White House said Thursday. "A small peace-keeping group of about 200 will remain in Syria for a period of time," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said. The announcement comes amid fierce criticism of Trump's decision to withdraw America's 2,000 or so troops from ... more WAR REPORT North Korea's forgotten fighters in Vietnam sino-vietnamese-war-chinese-soldiers-bg.jpg Bac Giang, Vietnam (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 - A caretaker tends to the headstones of 14 North Koreans killed fighting in the Vietnam War, carefully sweeping around the plaques honouring Pyongyang's little-known contribution to Hanoi's anti-American crusade. The bodies of the 12 fighter pilots and two technicians were buried here before they were repatriated in 2002 but the rarely-visited graveyard, bordered by rice paddy fields, remains ... more TERROR WARS 'Voice of Paris attacks' killed in Syria: sources isil-isis-islamic-state-fighters-600-bg.jpg Paris (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 - A top French Islamic State jihadist who became notorious after voicing an audio recording claiming responsibility for the November 2015 attacks in Paris has been killed in an overnight airstrike, security sources told AFP. Fabien Clain, who is believed to have gone to Syria in March 2015, was killed in the terror group's last Syrian redoubt of Baghouz, the sources said on condition of anonym ... more TAIWAN NEWS Taiwan's Tsai says no peace deal with China unless force ruled out taiwan-tsai-ing-wen-bg.jpg Taipei (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 - President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday said no formal peace deal could be signed with China until leaders in Beijing rule out using force against the island. Tsai was speaking a day after she confirmed she would run for re-election in early 2020 despite falling ratings and an increasingly strained relationship with China. Beijing still sees democratic Taiwan as part of its territory to be r ... more