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Category: Science
Category : News
Author: Eric Berger

Rocket Lab is having a pretty good year with a rising stock price and reaching a monthly launch cadence with its Electron vehicle for the first time. But as ever in the space business, the focus is not so much on what a company has done but what it will do. And for Rocket Lab, its future in the launch business lies with the medium-lift Neutron vehicle.

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Article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/rocket-lab-pivoting-to-downrange-neutron-landings-to-meet-customer-demand/
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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: NZDF

The Royal New Zealand Navy’s maritime sustainment vessel, HMNZS Aotearoa, has sailed today from Auckland bound for South East Asia to participate in the Five Power Defence Arrangements Exercise Bersama Lima in Malaysia, alongside frigate HMNZS Te Mana.

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Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/nz-navy-to-participate-in-major-south-east-asia-exercise/
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Author: Gaurav Sharma

Two Indian naval vessels are set to visit ports in New Zealand later this month on a four-day resupply stop.

The visit is the first by Indian naval vessels since 2016, when INS Sumitra visited Auckland as part of the International Naval Review.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/indonz/496072/new-zealand-to-host-first-indian-naval-vessels-since-2016
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Category: World
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China launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday as a "serious warning" to separatist forces in an angry but widely expected response to Vice President William Lai's visit to the United States, drawing condemnation from Taipei.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/496166/china-launches-drills-around-taiwan-in-angry-response-to-vp-s-us-trip
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Category: Defence
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Author: Alecia Rousseau

The last aircraft to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s latest fleet has hit the tarmac in Ōhakea.

All four Boeing P-8A Poseidon were lined up at the base on Friday marking the final chapter in what has been a five-year journey to bring the planes to New Zealand.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300952255/p8a-poseidon-final-aircraft-joins-maritime-surveillance-fleet
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Category: Defence
Category : Opinion
Author: Dr Simon Ewing-Jarvie

I read the recently released government documents on strategic foreign policy assessment, national security strategy, defence policy and strategy statement, future force design principles and the security threat environment – three times.

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Article: https://unclas.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/hybrid-interference-cure-worse-than-the-disease/
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Category: Defence
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Author: Story courtesy of Ministry for Primary Industries.

Our Royal New Zealand Air Force’s new P-8A Poseidon aircraft has been deployed on Operation Nasse for the first time.

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Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/more-than-20-fishing-vessels-inspected-during-new-zealand-led-south-pacific-fisheries-patrol/
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Category: World
Category : Analysis
Author: CNN

Ukrainian marines have advanced for the second time in two weeks on the southeastern frontlines, towards the key port city of Mariupol, with the recapture of the village of Urozhaine appearing to have been partially aided by the use of controversial cluster munitions.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/08/russia-ukraine-war-controversial-cluster-bombs-aid-kyiv-s-counteroffensive.html
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