Category : News
Author: Samson Amore

Rocket Lab has been building rockets in Long Beach for more than a decade, competing with the likes of SpaceX in a less talked-about area of the space industry: satellite launches. But growing interest in space exploration made CEO Peter Beck rethink his strategy.

"What we're trying to build is a new breed of space company," Beck said.

Article: https://dot.la/rocket-lab-favorite-rocket-launcher-2655221007.html
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Category : Defence
Author: Jamie Ensor

A New Zealand Navy frigate is sailing through the disputed South China Sea as tensions between China and Taiwan escalate. 

The Defence Force on Wednesday morning said the Royal New Zealand Navy Frigate Te Kaha is joining the United Kingdom's Carrier Strike Group (CSG) - which includes the massive HMS Queen Elizabeth - and other military partners to transit through the South China Sea.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/10/new-zealand-warship-sailing-disputed-south-china-sea-as-taiwan-warns-we-will-fight-to-end-if-china-attacks.html
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Category : Defence
Author: Ed Scragg

A Royal New Zealand Navy frigate has joined with the UK’s Carrier Strike Group as it traverses the South China Sea en route to a major international defence exercise.

The Defence Force said the HMZNS Te Kaha was heading for Singapore where it would participate in Bersama Gold 21.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300423965/hmnzs-te-kaha-joins-uk-carrier-strike-group-in-south-china-sea
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Author: Reuters

Facebook blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Tuesday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/10/facebook-reveals-what-likely-caused-outage-experts-say-might-have-been-sabotage.html
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HILIPPINE SEA -- USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204) conducts an underway replenishment with HMNZS Aotearoa (A11) in the Philippine Sea, Sept. 20. The U.S. Navy’s fleet replenishment oiler provided fuel and other critical supplies to the Royal New Zealand Navy’s sustainment ship. Military Sealift Command Far East ensures ships like Rapphannock are manned, trained and equipped to deliver essential supplies, fuel, cargo and equipment to U.S. forces, allies and partners, both at sea and on shore. As the U.S. Navy's largest forward-deployed fleet, 7th Fleet employs 50-70 ships and submarines across the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. U.S. 7th Fleet routinely operates and interacts with 35 maritime nations while conducting missions to preserve and protect a free and open Indo-Pacific Region. (Photo courtesy of the Royal New Zealand Navy)

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Category : Defence
Author: Dzirhan Mahadzir

KUALA LUMPUR – Two U.S. carrier strike groups drilled with the United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21) and a Japanese big-deck warship over the weekend in a major naval exercise in the waters off the southeast of Okinawa, Japan.

Article: https://news.usni.org/2021/10/04/u-s-u-k-aircraft-carriers-drill-with-japanese-big-deck-warship-in-the-western-pacific#more-88865
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Category : Defence
Author: Qiu Peifen

From October 1 to 3, China dispatched 93 military aircraft into the airspace of the Taiwan Strait. On the 4th, it set a record of 52 in a single day. The alarming number has angered the United States, and the State Department issued a special statement condemning China's "provocative actions" for destabilizing. Just more than ten hours after the U.S. expressed its position, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force issued a press release at noon on the 4th , confirming that joint exercises will be held in the waters southwest of Okinawa with the navies of the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, Canada, and New Zealand from October 2 to 3. The purpose of the exercise is to strengthen cooperation and "realize a free and open Indo-Pacific region." International public opinion has also interpreted it as an intention to declare combat power and express a position to China.

Article: https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?SerialNo=126188
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Category : News
Author: Desmond Woods
This article was first published in the Australian Naval Review, 2020, Issue 1, in June 2020. These articles were available exclusively to full members of the ANI in the hard copy of the Australian Naval Review and are published on the website with broader public access for the historic record the following year.

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