UK police hold two women for alleged terror offences
London (AFP) July 2, 2015 -
British police on Thursday charged a 26-year-old woman with inciting terror through Twitter and membership of the Islamic State group, and arrested a 15-year-old girl on suspicion of preparing an attack.
Police were also continuing an investigation into the disappearance of a family of 12, including three generations, believed to have travelled to Syria.
The 26-year-old woman was detaine ...
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Compact cannon for British armored vehicles
London (UPI) Jul 2, 2015 -
Britain's Ministry of Defense has contracted CTA International to supply a compact 40mm cannon system for the army's armored fighting vehicles.
The system is the Cased Telescope cannon, which is more compact than currently fielded 40mm cannons. It features a thermal sleeve, automatic ammunition loading and a range of compact ammunition for use against armored vehicles, hardened targets ...
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Deadly clashes rock Yemen as UN raises emergency level
Aden (AFP) July 2, 2015 -
At least 22 people were killed Thursday in Yemen as fighting raged in the southern port of Aden and Saudi-led warplanes bombed Shiite rebels in the capital Sanaa, officials said.
The violence came a day after the UN declared its highest level of humanitarian emergency in the country, where it says some 3,000 people, half of them civilians, have been killed since March.
But there was a ra ...
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European space industry collaborates with ESA for the future
Paris (ESA) Jul 01, 2015 -
More than 80 companies from ESA Member States met recently to begin discussing new models of collaboration to reinforce European space industry's presence in the world market. A first-ever event hosted at ESA's European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, on 25-26 June brought Agency experts together with space industry to discuss the path for future collaboration in mission operations ...
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NovaWurks and Spaceflight Services set for payload test bed mission in 2017
Los Alamitos CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 -
NovaWurks and Spaceflight Services have announced a signed launch contract for a NovaWurks Payload Test Bed (PTB) mission planned for the third quarter of 2017. PTB-2, the second of the company's Payload Test Bed missions, is scheduled to launch into a sun-synchronous orbit on Spaceflight's SHERPA in-space transportation platform aboard a U.S. commercial launch vehicle.
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NASA Gears Up to Test Orion's Powerhouse
Sandusky OH (SPX) Jul 01, 2015 -
NASA is getting ready for a series of tests that will check out Orion's service module, a critical part of the spacecraft that will launch atop the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on future missions to an asteroid and on toward Mars.
The testing, which will take place at NASA Glenn's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, will begin with the arrival of a crew module adapter simula ...
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Europe teams up for next-gen mission control software
Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2015 -
Together with national space agencies and industry, ESA is working to develop next-generation software for spacecraft control and monitoring. The initiative is a strategic and technological jump, and will see most space organisations in Europe adopting a common infrastructure, which will improve efficiency, lower technical risk and deliver a major boost to European industrial competitiveness. ...
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