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The Rocket Lab-built and jointly operated Photon spacecraft will enable high-value products to be manufactured in space and returned to Earth
Long Beach, Calif. Wednesday, August 11, 2021 – Leading launch and space systems company Rocket Lab today announced it has signed a deal with in-space manufacturing company Varda Space Industries to produce three Photon spacecraft that will integrate with their space factories, enabling high-value products to be manufactured in zero-gravity and returned to Earth in Varda’s re-entry capsule.
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- Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about-us/updates/rocket-lab-inks-deal-with-varda-space-industries-to-supply-multiple-photon-spacecraft-for-space-manufacturing-missions
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A problematic partnership between a Chinese firm implicated in human rights abuses and a Government-backed Kiwi tech start-up has ended.
Auckland robotics company Rocos Global says it has been bought by a US drone company and no longer has financial links to China’s iFlytek, a firm blacklisted by the US Government over its involvement in the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
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Read more: Kiwi tech firm exits problematic China partnership
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300379660/kiwi-tech-firm-exits-problematic-china-partnership
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New data shows for the third consecutive month quarterly house price growth in New Zealand has eased.
The latest QV House Price Index figures show that for the three-month period ending in July, the average value of a home in New Zealand increased 4.3 percent, down from the 6.6 percent quarterly growth recorded to the end of June.
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Read more: Price growth slows for third month, but new QV figures reveal massive annual jumps
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2021/08/housing-price-growth-slows-for-third-month-but-new-qv-figures-reveal-massive-annual-jumps.html
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New Zealand could offer quarantine-free travel or shorter stays in managed isolation for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 from low-risk countries - but it shouldn't start until at least early next year, a new report suggests.
Research commissioned by Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall, led by prominent epidemiologist Sir David Skegg, says when New Zealand starts to re-open its borders, infection outbreaks will be inevitable.
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A Chinese court upheld on Tuesday a Canadian man's death sentence for drug smuggling, prompting condemnation from Ottawa, a day before another court is due to rule on the case of a Canadian accused of spying.
The court proceedings for the two Canadians come as lawyers in Canada representing the detained chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei make a final push to persuade a court there not to extradite her to the United States.
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Read more: Canada condemns China's decision to uphold Canadian's death sentence
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/canada-condemns-china-s-decision-to-uphold-canadian-s-death-sentence.html
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Scheduled to lift-off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula in late August, the ‘Love At First Insight’ mission will be Rocket Lab’s 22nd Electron launch overall and fifth mission of 2021.
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The tide has turned on New Zealand's 'brain drain', a new report says, with more highly skilled Kiwis opting to return home than head away from our shores for the first time in 20 years.
The report - entitled Nau Mai | Welcome Home - was released by The Helen Clark Foundation and WSP on Tuesday morning.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called out bullying in the South China Sea on Monday and warned the U.N. Security Council that a conflict "would have serious global consequences for security and for commerce," sparking a strong rebuke from China.
The South China Sea has become one of many flashpoints in the testy relationship between China and the United States, with Washington rejecting what it calls unlawful territorial claims by Beijing in the resource-rich waters.
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Read more: Warning conflict would have 'serious consequences' as US, China trade barbs over waters
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/south-china-sea-warning-conflict-would-have-serious-consequences-as-us-china-trade-barbs-over-waters.html
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