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<div class="viewsTitle"><h1 class="viewsTitleText">SpaceX’s Second Starship Test Flies Longer—And Ends With Another Explosion</h1>
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<p><span class="dropcap-element-slot">S</span>paceX’s second test flight of its massive Starship rocket ended early Saturday when the vehicle’s spacecraft blew up, though the launch made it farther than the company’s previous attempt.</p>
<p>SpaceX said it lost contact with the Starship spacecraft about 15 minutes after launching from the company’s spaceport east of Brownsville, Texas around 8 a.m. ET. A self-destruct mechanism appeared to trigger after contact was lost, exploding the craft, according to a SpaceX livestream.</p>
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<p>The flight was intended to be a roughly 90-minute operation. About three minutes after launch, the Starship spacecraft separated from a huge booster and began to ascend on its own, according to a company livestream.</p>
<p class="continue-read-break">After the spacecraft detached from the booster, the latter vehicle exploded. The booster, called Super Heavy, was meant to land in the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
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<p>SpaceX engineers said on the livestream Saturday’s test-flight nonetheless showed progress for the rocket that Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive, wants to use for deep-space missions.</p>
<p>“With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multiplanetary,” the company said on X, formerly known as Twitter, not long after the end of the flight.</p>
<div class="intra-article-module"><div class="articlePageIntraArticleFullWidth"><div class="intra-article-relatedcontent"><div class="video-clear-div">Separation between the booster rocket and the spacecraft that sat on top of it at liftoff was a key goal for SpaceX for Saturday’s flight. During the inaugural demonstration mission in April, the separation didn’t occur, and a system on the rocket blew up the vehicle.</div>
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<p>SpaceX used a new method Saturday to perform the separation. Called hot-staging, the engines on the spacecraft began to fire away while that vehicle was still attached to the booster that powered the combined vehicle off the launchpad.</p>
<p>“We got the hot staging, you know, the thing that we really wanted to see,” said John Insprucker, a SpaceX engineer and commentator during the company’s livestream. “We saw the separation.”</p>
<p>The flight path had called for the spacecraft to power toward space and travel around the planet before landing in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.</p>
<p>Musk and SpaceX have much riding on Starship. NASA is counting on the vehicle to ferry astronauts to the moon’s surface as part of its Artemis exploration program, and Musk has touted Starship as humanity’s eventual ticket to Mars.</p>
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<p>The vehicle, which stands close to 400 feet tall when stacked up, consists of a booster called Super Heavy that is designed to blast a spacecraft into orbit. The company calls Starship the most powerful rocket ever built.</p>
<p>After 10 million pounds of fuel were loaded into both stages of the rocket, the combined vehicle roared off a launchpad Saturday, drawing cheers from SpaceX employees who had gathered to view the flight from the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif.</p>
<p>The 33 engines on the booster functioned as designed, according to the SpaceX livestream. The vehicle also made it through a period during ascent of intense stress before completing the separation maneuver.</p>
<p>Starship’s inaugural test flight in April ended about four minutes after liftoff, when it exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
<p>Leaking fuel during ascent severed the connection to the vehicle’s main flight computer, and the company lost control of the rocket. Engines went out. A safety system later blew up that Starship as it tumbled in the air.</p>
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<p>Musk had warned ahead of time about that flight’s potential for failure, and said afterward the company learned a lot from the attempt. He has said SpaceX made more than 1,000 changes related to Starship following the first mission.</p>
<p>SpaceX has long used what company executives have described as an iterative approach to developing, testing and improving rockets and spacecraft. That style has generated a number of explosions during tests over the years.</p>
<p>At Starbase, the company’s Texas spaceport, the company has installed a water-deluge system at the launchpad to damp the intense power of the 33 engines on the Starship booster at liftoff, and avoid spreading debris. April’s test flight sent chunks of concrete and other debris across hundreds of acres of land and ignited a 3.5-acre fire, drawing objections from environmentalists.</p>
<p>Executives at SpaceX have said that the company needs to fly Starship many times before it carries any people. SpaceX still has significant technical hurdles to overcome with Starship, including showing that it can use a tanker variant to transfer fuel to ships in orbit.</p>
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<p>SpaceX has broader plans for Starship—not least of which is the Mars mission that has long animated Musk’s activities with space. It plans to use Starship to blast upgraded versions of its Starlink satellites into orbit and conduct missions for customers besides NASA, including private space travelers.</p>
<p>Write to Micah Maidenberg at micah.maidenberg@wsj.com</p>
IRAN cyberattack
FEBRUARY 11,…
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2020-02-18T10:51:27.299Z
jorge namour
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<p><strong>IRAN cyberattack</strong></p>
<p>FEBRUARY 11, 2020</p>
<p><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Failed-satellite-launch-causes-massive-explosion-in-rural-Iran-617169?fbclid=IwAR3fCXaQdM6ESadUEK-XMlw1F-vicuTV8aRPwqraUEmiecsSoUpEbDiU8Ng" target="_blank">https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Failed-satellite-launch-causes-massive-explosion-in-rural-Iran-617169?fbclid=IwAR3fCXaQdM6ESadUEK-XMlw1F-vicuTV8aRPwqraUEmiecsSoUpEbDiU8Ng</a></p>
<p>On Saturday, Sadjad Bonabi, an official from…</p>
<p><strong>IRAN cyberattack</strong></p>
<p>FEBRUARY 11, 2020</p>
<p><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Failed-satellite-launch-causes-massive-explosion-in-rural-Iran-617169?fbclid=IwAR3fCXaQdM6ESadUEK-XMlw1F-vicuTV8aRPwqraUEmiecsSoUpEbDiU8Ng" target="_blank">https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Failed-satellite-launch-causes-massive-explosion-in-rural-Iran-617169?fbclid=IwAR3fCXaQdM6ESadUEK-XMlw1F-vicuTV8aRPwqraUEmiecsSoUpEbDiU8Ng</a></p>
<p>On Saturday, Sadjad Bonabi, an official from Iran's Telecommunications Infrastructures Company, announced that a cyberattack temporarily disrupted Internet services in the country, but added that Iran's Dezhfa firewall had repelled the attack. Internet watchdog Netblocks reported a disruption in Internet service in Iran on Saturday, as well as after authorities reportedly activated the "Digital Fortress" isolation mechanism.</p>
<p>According to Bonabi, the disruption was caused by a DDoS attack in which attackers attempt to make a network unavailable by sending too many requests to the IP of a country, causing an overload which leads to disruptions or causes the network to crash. The attack originated in East Asia and North America but did not seem to be the work of another government, he said.</p>
<p>Nariman Gharib, a UK-based journalist and activist, stated that the botnet attack was "massive," according to Radio Farda, adding that the attack happened on the day that the Zafar satellite was supposed to be launched.</p>
Failed satellite launch cause…
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2020-02-18T10:35:54.395Z
jorge namour
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<p><strong>Failed satellite launch causes massive explosion in rural Iran</strong></p>
<p>FEBRUARY 11, 2020 13:16</p>
<p>Authorities were investigating the source of explosions and lights reported by locals on Sunday; parts of the satellite had been found "in unpopulated areas... and citizens had no cause to worry."…</p>
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<p><strong>Failed satellite launch causes massive explosion in rural Iran</strong></p>
<p>FEBRUARY 11, 2020 13:16</p>
<p>Authorities were investigating the source of explosions and lights reported by locals on Sunday; parts of the satellite had been found "in unpopulated areas... and citizens had no cause to worry."</p>
<p><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Failed-satellite-launch-causes-massive-explosion-in-rural-Iran-617169?fbclid=IwAR3fCXaQdM6ESadUEK-XMlw1F-vicuTV8aRPwqraUEmiecsSoUpEbDiU8Ng" target="_blank">https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Failed-satellite-launch-causes-massive-explosion-in-rural-Iran-617169?fbclid=IwAR3fCXaQdM6ESadUEK-XMlw1F-vicuTV8aRPwqraUEmiecsSoUpEbDiU8Ng</a></p>
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Iran Zafar satellite launch, Feb. 9, 2020<br />
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Iran's fourth failed satellite launch in a year ended with a bang after the Zafar satellite failed to enter orbit on Sunday, crashing in a rural area of southeast Iran. Local residents reported eight massive explosions and saw a large light in the sky, according to Radio Farda.<br />
Iran succeeded in launching the new satellite into outer space, but failed to place the satellite into orbit, according to Iranian reports. All stages of the launch proceeded correctly, but the satellite did not reach the speed needed to inject it into the desired orbit, according to the Iranian Fars News.<br />
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According to NASA, the launch appears to have failed during the second or third stage of the flight when the Simorgh rocket reached the 540 kilometer trajectory, about a thousand meters per second short of the velocity required to reach orbit.<br />
An official from the Governor's Office of Zahedan said that parts of the satellite had crashed near the city, the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, according to Radio Farda. The province's Security and Law Enforcement deputy governor Mohammad-Hadi Marashi told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that authorities were investigating the source of explosions and lights reported by locals on Sunday, adding that parts of the satellite had been found "in unpopulated areas close to Zahedan and citizens had no cause to worry." CONTINUE...
Benjamin Netanyahu indicted o…
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2019-11-21T18:24:58.854Z
Juan F Martinez
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<div class="mb1 founders-mono f2 lh-copy gray-80 ls-tight"><div class="articleHero___1ww7q"><div class="articleDek dekSummary___GcgCT f4 f5-m f6-l f7-xl publico-hed lh-copy fw3 ls-normal mb3 mb6-m"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Benjamin Netanyahu indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust</strong></span></p>
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<div class="articleDek dekSummary___GcgCT f4 f5-m f6-l f7-xl publico-hed lh-copy fw3 ls-normal mb3 mb6-m">The Israeli prime minister has denied any…</div>
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<div class="articleDek dekSummary___GcgCT f4 f5-m f6-l f7-xl publico-hed lh-copy fw3 ls-normal mb3 mb6-m">The Israeli prime minister has denied any wrongdoing and said he is the victim of a politically orchestrated "witch hunt."</div>
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<div class="mb1 founders-mono f2 lh-copy gray-80 ls-tight">Nov. 21, 2019, 11:32 AM EST<span> / </span>Updated Nov. 21, 2019, 1:18 PM EST</div>
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<div class="article-body__content"><p class="endmarkEnabled">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday, prolonging the country’s political uncertainty as it looks set to head into its third national election in a year.</p>
<p class="endmarkEnabled"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/after-falling-short-israel-s-election-netanyahu-set-confront-his-n1056241" target="_blank" class=" vilynx_listened" rel="noopener">Netanyahu, who has denied any wrongdoing</a> and said he is the victim of a politically orchestrated "witch hunt," faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of bribery and a maximum 3-year term for fraud and breach of trust, according to legal experts.</p>
<p class="endmarkEnabled">Netanyahu's chief political rival, former army chief Benny Gantz, said the indictment raises concerns that the prime minister "will make decisions in his own personal interest and for his political survival and not in the national interest."</p>
<p class="endmarkEnabled">The two were virtually tied after September’s elections and each failed to assemble a governing majority.</p>
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2019-10-30T03:50:28.435Z
Juan F Martinez
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>ALL ISRAELI DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE CLOSING.</strong> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">10-29-2019</span><strong><br></br></strong></span></p>
<p>"Due to the decision of the Ministry of Finance to breach understandings and to alter a protocol that has been in place for several decades, we are forced to close our Embassy.<br></br> No consular services will be provided and no one will be allowed to enter...Israeli diplomats are committed at…</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>ALL ISRAELI DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE CLOSING.</strong> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">10-29-2019</span><strong><br/></strong></span></p>
<p>"Due to the decision of the Ministry of Finance to breach understandings and to alter a protocol that has been in place for several decades, we are forced to close our Embassy.<br/> No consular services will be provided and no one will be allowed to enter...Israeli diplomats are committed at all times to strive to enhance Israel’s strength and resilience. Unfortunately, the decision of the MOF does not leave us any choice, since the vital interests of Israel have been harmed. We hope for prompt solving of this crisis...<strong>ALL ISRAELI DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE CLOSING.</strong>"</p>
<p><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-embassies-around-the-world-shut-as-diplomats-military-attaches-strike/" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-embassies-around-the-world-shut-as-diplomats-military-attaches-strike/</a></p>
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<p><span dir="ltr"><span class="_3l3x"><span>This week we learn:</span><br/><span>US Forces take-down al-Baghdadi and his successor</span><br/><span>Dog with "No Name" alludes to McCain</span><br/><span>"Origin" comms & "Cables" reportedly recovered (sent from Hillary Clinton State Dept)</span><br/><span>All Israeli diplomatic representations world-wide closing</span><br/><br/></span></span></p>
CEO exits (yesterday) 10-22-2…
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2019-10-23T15:05:08.349Z
Juan F Martinez
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<div class="mtm _5pco"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>CEO exits (yesterday) 10-22-2019</strong></span><br/> -Nike<br/> -Boeing <br/> -Under Armor</p>
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<div class="mtm _5pco"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>CEO exits (yesterday) 10-22-2019</strong></span><br/> -Nike<br/> -Boeing <br/> -Under Armor</p>
<p><strong>CEO exits (2019):</strong><br/> -HP<br/> -REI <br/> -Juul <br/> -eBay<br/> -PG&E <br/> -Boingo <br/> -RiteAid <br/> -MetLife <br/> -WeWork <br/> -BestBuy<br/> -Overstock<br/> -KraftHeinz <br/> -WellsFargo<br/> -Warner Bros <br/> -BedBathBeyond <br/> -UnitedHealthcare</p>
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Today was a day of exodus for…
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2019-10-23T00:19:22.205Z
Juan F Martinez
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Today was a day of exodus for 4 CEOs of major companies @CNBC</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/nike-ceo-mark-parker-to-step-down-john-donahoe-to-replace-him-in-2020.html" target="_blank">https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/nike-ceo-mark-parker-to-step-down-john-donahoe-to-replace-him-in-2020.html…</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Today was a day of exodus for 4 CEOs of major companies @CNBC</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/nike-ceo-mark-parker-to-step-down-john-donahoe-to-replace-him-in-2020.html" target="_blank">https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/nike-ceo-mark-parker-to-step-down-john-donahoe-to-replace-him-in-2020.html</a></p>
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"This Assange “arrest” and AG…
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2019-10-21T22:09:06.749Z
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<p><strong>"<em>This Assange “arrest” and AG Barr’s testimony this week are but the opening scenes of a long awaited drama.</em>"</strong> <a href="http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue656.htm" target="_blank">http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue656.htm…</a></p>
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<p><strong>"<em>This Assange “arrest” and AG Barr’s testimony this week are but the opening scenes of a long awaited drama.</em>"</strong> <a href="http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue656.htm" target="_blank">http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue656.htm</a></p>
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<div class="tonal__standfirst u-cf"><div class="content__standfirst"><p>WikiLeaks founder’s legal team wanted an extra month to submit evidence</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/21/julian-assange-extradition-judge-refuses-request-for-delay-wikileaks" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/21/julian-assange-extradition-judge-refuses-request-for-delay-wikileaks</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/julian-assange" class="u-underline">Julian Assange</a> has been told there can be no delay in his US extradition case, as he appeared in court in London.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/wikileaks" class="u-underline">WikiLeaks</a> founder’s legal team requested more time to submit evidence and the postponement of the full extradition hearing, while claiming the charges against him were politically motivated, at a case management hearing at Westminster magistrates court.</p>
<p>After the defence and prosecution clashed over the timetabling of the hearings and their allocated timeframes for evidence submission, the district judge Vanessa Baraitser refused to extend the expected proceedings and told Assange his full extradition case would begin on 25 February.</p>
<p>Later, she asked Assange if he had understood events in court. “Not really. I can’t think properly,” he appeared to say. “I don’t understand how this is equitable. This superpower had 10 years to prepare for this case and I can’t access my writings. It’s very difficult where I am to do anything but these people have unlimited resources.</p>
<p>“They are saying journalists and whistleblowers are enemies of the people. They have unfair advantages dealing with documents. They [know] the interior of my life with my psychologist. They steal my children’s DNA. This is not equitable what is happening here.”</p>
<p>Mark Summers, defending Assange, claimed the US had been spying on his client and said there was a link between the “reinvigoration of the investigation and Donald Trump’s presidency”.</p>
<p>“This is part of an avowed war on whistleblowers to include investigative journalists and publishers,” Summers said. “The American state has been actively engaged in intruding on privileged discussions between Mr Assange and his lawyer.”</p>
<p>He referred to reports that Spanish courts <a href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/25/inenglish/1569384196_652151.html" class="u-underline">are investigating a security company</a> that allegedly worked in conjunction with the US to “obtain information by unlawful acts, thefts and clandestine surveillance within the Ecuadorian embassy … with increasing intensity from 2017 onwards”, and asked for more time to prepare evidence for the case.</p>
<p>The prosecutor James Lewis QC, representing the UK government, said he strongly opposed Assange being given more time to prepare evidence, pre-empting their later request.</p>
<p>Assange, 48, faces extradition to the US over allegations he conspired to break into a classified Pentagon computer and could receive a 175-year jail sentence if convicted.</p>
<p>As he entered the dock, on his third public appearance since his arrest in April, people in the packed public gallery raised their fists in solidarity. The former London mayor Ken Livingstone and the journalist John Pilger were among those in attendance.</p>
<p>Afterwards, the German Bundestag member Heike Hänsel echoed <a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-extradition-julian-assange-usa-must-not-go-ahead" class="u-underline">warnings from Amnesty International</a> and warned of a bleak future for journalists publishing “truthful information” contrary to US interests.</p>
<p>“The British government and the EU must both reject this extraterritorial political persecution,” she said.</p>
<p>WikiLeaks said Assange was being kept in isolation without access to legal papers, a computer or “meaningful participation in his case” and that the conditions were significantly obstructing his legal defence.</p>
<p>The site’s editor-in-chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, said the case should be thrown out immediately, adding: “Not only is it illegal on the face of the treaty, the US has conducted illegal operations against Assange and his lawyers which are the subject of a major investigation in Spain.”</p>
<p>Court proceedings continued while a protest attended by about 100 activists chanting “Free Julian Assange” and “No extradition, there’s only one decision” took place outside.</p>
<p>After the hearing, a van believed to be returning Assange to prison was approached by his supporters who slapped the sides of the vehicle.</p>
<p>Assange last appeared in court in May, when he was jailed for 50 weeks for skipping bail by going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012. At that time he had been facing extradition to Sweden, where he was wanted in connection with sexual offence allegations.</p>
<p>He was remanded in custody in April after Ecuador revoked his political asylum, before the then home secretary, Sajid Javid, signed an order allowing Assange to be extradited to the US over the allegations. There are concerns over his health, and he has spent time on a medical ward in prison.</p>
<p>Information released by WikiLeaks revealed the extent of state surveillance in western countries and the conduct of the US troops in the Middle East, which Assange alleged proved war crimes had been perpetrated.</p>
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<div class="content__headline-standfirst-wrapper"><div class="content__header tonal__header"><div class="u-cf"><h1 class="content__headline">Australia must oppose any move to extradite Julian Assange to US, Labor MP says</h1>
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<div class="tonal__standfirst u-cf"><div class="content__standfirst"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/15/australia-must-oppose-any-move-to-extradite-julian-assange-to-us-labor-mp-says" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/15/australia-must-oppose-any-move-to-extradite-julian-assange-to-us-labor-mp-says</a></p>
<p>14 Oct 2019</p>
<p>Backbencher Julian Hill joins Barnaby Joyce in expressing concerns about WikiLeaks founder</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/15/australia-must-oppose-any-move-to-extradite-julian-assange-to-us-labor-mp-says" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/15/australia-must-oppose-any-move-to-extradite-julian-assange-to-us-labor-mp-says</a></p>
<p>The Labor backbencher Julian Hill has declared Australia must vigorously contest any move to extradite the WikiLeaks founder <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/julian-assange" class="u-underline">Julian Assange</a> from the United Kingdom to the United States on espionage charges.</p>
<p>Joining <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/barnaby-joyce-joins-calls-to-stop-extradition-of-assange-to-us-20191013-p53080.html" class="u-underline">concerns about Assange expressed</a> by the former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, the Victorian Labor MP told Guardian Australia: “I do hold serious concerns about [Assange’s] situation.</p>
<p>“He’s an Australian and at the very least we must be vigorously consistent in opposing extradition to countries where he might face the death penalty.”</p>
<p>Assange faced allegations of sexual assault in Sweden when he entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London 2012 and sought asylum because he feared being extradited to America. He spent nearly seven years in the embassy until police removed him in April after Ecuador revoked his political asylum.</p>
<p>The British home secretary, Sajid Javid, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/13/julian-assange-sajid-javid-signs-us-extradition-order" class="u-underline">has signed a request for Assange to be extradited to the US</a> where he faces charges of computer hacking.</p>
<p>Javid’s decision opens the way for the WikiLeaks founder to be sent to the US. Assange faces an 18-count indictment, issued by the US Department of Justice, that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/23/julian-assange-indicted-what-charges-mean-for-free-speech" class="u-underline">includes charges under the Espionage Act</a>. He is accused of soliciting and publishing classified information and conspiring to hack into a government computer.</p>
<p>Australia’s shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, met Assange’s lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, last month, but declined to comment after the conversation. “Mr Assange’s detention and any legal proceedings are a matter of current consideration in accordance with the British justice system and it would be inappropriate to comment while that process is under way.”</p>
<p>Joyce said on Monday: “Sovereignty is not just for people that you like or people that you have a philosophical relationship to, it might be for someone you detest, it might be for someone that you find completely obnoxious.</p>
<p>“Nonetheless, if they’re a citizen of this nation, they should be afforded the rights of a citizen.”</p>
<p>Government talking points, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/14/the-prime-ministers-office-accidentally-sent-out-its-talking-points-we-fact-checked-them" class="u-underline">accidentally circulated to journalists on Monday,</a> said of the Assange case: “The Australian government cannot interfere in the United Kingdom’s legal processes, just as another country cannot interfere in ours.</p>
<p>“We appreciate that some members of the public feel very strongly about Mr Assange’s situation but it is important to remember that Australia cannot intervene in the legal processes of another country.</p>
<p>“Mr Assange will be entitled to due process, including legal representation, in those processes.”</p>
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<div class="content__header tonal__header"><div class="u-cf"><h1 class="content__headline">Julian Assange to remain in jail pending extradition to US</h1>
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/14/julian-assange-to-remain-in-jail-pending-extradition-to-us" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/14/julian-assange-to-remain-in-jail-pending-extradition-to-us</a></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3673299817?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3673299817?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a>14 Sep 2019</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/julian-assange" class="u-underline">Julian Assange</a> will stay in prison after the custody period on his current jail term ends because of his “history of absconding”.</p>
<p>As home secretary, Sajid Javid <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/13/julian-assange-sajid-javid-signs-us-extradition-order" class="u-underline">signed an order in June allowing Assange’</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/13/julian-assange-sajid-javid-signs-us-extradition-order" class="u-underline">s extradition to the US</a> over <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/23/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-with-violating-the-espionage-act-in-18-count-indictment" class="u-underline">hacking allegations</a>. A 50-week jail term was imposed in the UK after he had jumped previous bail by going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/wikileaks" class="u-underline">WikiLeaks</a> founder would have been released from HMP Belmarsh on 22 September, Westminster magistrates court heard on Friday, but he was told he would be kept in jail because of “substantial grounds” for believing he would abscond again.</p>
<p>Assange, 48, who is an Australian citizen, appeared by video-link wearing a loose-fitting T-shirt.</p>
<p>District judge Vanessa Baraitser told him: “You have been produced today because your sentence of imprisonment is about to come to an end. When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition.</p>
<p>“Therefore I have given your lawyer an opportunity to make an application for bail on your behalf and she has declined to do so, perhaps not surprisingly in light of your history of absconding in these proceedings.</p>
<p>“In my view I have substantial ground for believing if I release you, you will abscond again.”</p>
<p>Assange was asked if he understood what was happening. He replied: “Not really. I’m sure the lawyers will explain it.”</p>
<p>Another administrative hearing will take place on 11 October and a case management hearing on 21 October, the court heard. The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/14/julian-assange-to-face-us-extradition-hearing-in-uk-next-year" class="u-underline">final extradition hearing</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/14/julian-assange-to-face-us-extradition-hearing-in-uk-next-year" class="u-underline">is</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/14/julian-assange-to-face-us-extradition-hearing-in-uk-next-year" class="u-underline">expected in February</a>.</p>
<p>Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he was wanted in connection with sexual offence allegations.He spent nearly seven years living in the building until police dragged him out in April after Ecuador revoked his political asylum.</p>
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<h1 class="info__headline headline">Mission over: Russia terminates its ‘Fedor’ space robot</h1>
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<li class="generic-article__summary--li content--li">Fedor, or Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, was built to assist space station astronauts, but wasn’t up to the task</li>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">It’s mission over for a robot called Fedor…</p>
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<h1 class="info__headline headline">Mission over: Russia terminates its ‘Fedor’ space robot</h1>
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<li class="generic-article__summary--li content--li">Fedor, or Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, was built to assist space station astronauts, but wasn’t up to the task</li>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">It’s mission over for a robot called Fedor that Russia blasted to the International Space Station, the developers said, admitting he could not replace astronauts on spacewalks.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">“He won’t fly there any more. There’s nothing more for him to do there, he’s completed his mission,” Yevgeny Dudorov, executive director of robot developers Androidnaya Tekhnika, told RIA Novosti state news agency.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">The silvery anthropomorphic robot cannot fulfil its assigned task to replace human astronauts on long and risky spacewalks, Dudorov said.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Fedor, or Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, was built to assist space station astronauts.</p>
<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">A storm of publicity surrounded Fedor’s space odyssey and provided some light relief for Russia’s beleaguered space industry.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p"><strong>In the last year the industry has suffered the unprecedented failure of a manned launch</strong> and continuing delays on construction of the Vostochny spacepad where President Vladimir Putin upbraided officials last week.</p>
<div><div class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Fedor, officially Skybot F-850,<span> </span><div class="generic-article__body article-details-type--a content--a"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3023899/russia-launches-its-first-ever-humanoid-robot-space" class="link-text"><span class="text">rocketed to the ISS</span></a></div>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">On the station, the robot posed holding a Russian flag and for hugs with cosmonauts who were assigned to train it.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">But Fedor turned out to have a design that does not work well in space – standing 180cm tall, its long legs were not needed on spacewalks, Dudorov said.</p>
<p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p"><span>The Russian space agency said the legs were immobilised during the trip and Fedor was not programmed to grab space station hand rails to move about in microgravity.</span></p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin said that the next-generation robot would not look so humanlike.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">There appear to be other issues.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Footage of the robot ahead of the mission suggested it needed support to stand up.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin complained to mission control that it took more than a dozen attempts to switch on the robot and suggested: “Maybe I should bash it with a hammer,” RIA Novosti reported.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">In a video on its Twitter feed, the robot is shown shakily holding a drill monitored by Ovchinin, who at one point takes it away.</p>
<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Dudorov said developers were sketching out plans for a replacement “that must suit the demands of working on the outside of the ship”, hoping “we will be the first” to send a robot on a spacewalk.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">The Fedor robot was “the very first step,” space expert Igor Marinin told the National News Service agency, while next-generation robots will “be more technically advanced” and have “more serious tasks.”</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">The robot touched down back on Earth at the weekend.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">A final tweet posted in an account in the robot’s name on Tuesday said that it was at the developers’ plant outside Moscow.</p>
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<p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p"> <a href="https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1171139532978343938" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1171139532978343938</a></p>
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<p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Russia’s Fedor robot inside the Russian Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft. Photo: Reuters</p>
<div class="main__row row"><div class="row__details details"><div><div><div><div>It’s mission over for a robot called Fedor that Russia blasted to the International Space Station, the developers said, admitting he could not replace astronauts on spacewalks.</div>
<div class="details__body body"><div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">“He won’t fly there any more. There’s nothing more for him to do there, he’s completed his mission,” Yevgeny Dudorov, executive director of robot developers Androidnaya Tekhnika, told RIA Novosti state news agency.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">The silvery anthropomorphic robot cannot fulfil its assigned task to replace human astronauts on long and risky spacewalks, Dudorov said.</p>
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<div class="teads-adCall">Fedor, or Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, was built to assist space station astronauts.</div>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">A storm of publicity surrounded Fedor’s space odyssey and provided some light relief for Russia’s beleaguered space industry.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Footage of the robot ahead of the mission suggested it needed support to stand up.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin complained to mission control that it took more than a dozen attempts to switch on the robot and suggested: <strong>“Maybe I should bash it with a hammer,”</strong> RIA Novosti reported.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">In a video on its Twitter feed, the robot is shown shakily holding a drill monitored by Ovchinin, who at one point takes it away.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Dudorov said developers were sketching out plans for a replacement “that must suit the demands of working on the outside of the ship”, hoping “we will be the first” to send a robot on a spacewalk.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">The Fedor robot was “the very first step,” space expert Igor Marinin told the National News Service agency, while next-generation robots will “be more technically advanced” and have “more serious tasks.”</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">The robot touched down back on Earth at the weekend.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">A final tweet posted in an account in the robot’s name on Tuesday said that it was at the developers’ plant outside Moscow.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">“Now I’m in my case. I await directions for further tests after the flight,” it said.</p>
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<div><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p">Fedor was originally intended as a rescue robot for the emergencies ministry. It was shown shooting at targets from two handguns in a video posted by space agency chief Rogozin.</p>
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<h1>Iranian Rocket Launch Ends In Failure, Imagery Shows</h1>
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<p>Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows that an Iranian…</p>
<h1>Iranian Rocket Launch Ends In Failure, Imagery Shows</h1>
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<p>Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows that an Iranian rocket appears to have exploded on the launch pad Thursday.</p>
<p>The imagery from the commercial company <a href="https://www.planet.com/">Planet</a> and shared via the <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/about">Middlebury Institute of International Studies</a> shows smoke billowing from the pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in northern Iran. The pad had been given a fresh coat of paint in recent days, and numerous vehicles had been spotted around the site in preparation for the launch attempt.</p>
<p><strong>"This look likes the space launch vehicle blew up on the launch pad,"</strong> says <a href="https://www.nonproliferation.org/experts/david-schmerler/">Dave Schmerler</a>, a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute who has analyzed the imagery taken Thursday. "This failure happened maybe a couple of minutes before the image was taken."</p>
<p>The failure is the third this year. In January and February, Iran attempted to launch two rockets, both of which failed to reach orbit.</p>
<div><div class="bucket img">The exact type of rocket that failed Thursday is unclear, but the circular pad had previously been used to launch a type of two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket known as the Safir. The rocket is relatively small and can carry only small satellites into orbit. Earlier this month, Iran said one such satellite, known as Nahid-1, was ready to be launched.</div>
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<p>Imagery from a second commercial satellite owned by the company Maxar, showed the accident's aftermath in more detail. The images appeared to show the rocket still attached to the machinery used to transport and erect it for launch.</p>
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<p><strong>"This looks to me like an accident during launch preparation,"</strong> says <a href="https://www.iiss.org/people/non-proliferation-and-nuclear-policy/michael-elleman">Michael Elleman</a>, Director of the Nonproliferation and Nuclear Policy Program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. <strong>"It'd probably likely be a problem during fueling the missile, or an electrical shortage."</strong></p>
<p>The Trump administration has accused Iran of using its space program to develop long-range missiles, but Elleman says he doesn't believe the space program is directly applicable to missiles. "I think it's a real stretch what the administration is claiming," he says. "I don't know of a single satellite launcher that's been converted into a ballistic missile."</p>
<p>Domestically, Iran's space program is much more about trying to show the nation as a technological leader, says <a href="https://www.rand.org/about/people/t/tabatabai_ariane_m.html">Ariane Tabatabai</a>, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation. "The regime tries to portray Iran as being at the forefront of science and tech," Tabatabai says. "The space program really sits within that narrative."</p>
<p>This latest failure is likely to put still more pressure on Iran's small space program. "This is probably not going to reflect well on the space team in Iran and all the resources going towards it," Schmerler says.</p>
<p>But Tabatabai says that despite the spate of failures this year, it's unlikely Iran will give up entirely on its space ambitions. "The program has been around for a few decades now," she says. "I don't think we're going to stop seeing Iran trying."</p>
<p>In fact, another launch could be imminent. Schmerler says satellites have picked up activity at a second, larger launch pad near where the failure took place. "We might still get a launch off that pad in the near future," he says.</p>