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Arecibo Observatory Astronomers Discover First Near-Earth Triple Asteroid
Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 15, 2008Once considered just your average single asteroid, 2001 SN263 has now been revealed as the first near-Earth triple asteroid ever found. The asteroid -- with three bodies orbiting each other -- was discovered this week by astronomers at the radar telescope at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Cornell and Arecibo astronomer Michael C. Nolan said he a ... more New Radar Tracking And Sensor Fusion System Delivered To US Marines 
Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2008Northrop Grumman has delivered the first three production units of a new-generation multi-radar tracker (MRT) system to the U.S. Marine Corps that will enable the fusing of multiple sensor inputs into a single radar picture for enhanced mobile command-and-control operations. "This is the most capable version yet of our AN/TYQ-23 radar tracking product, which has benefited from ongoing ... more Northrop Grumman Completes Demonstration Of New Synthetic Aperture Radar Capability For F-22 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 15, 2008Northrop Grumman has successfully demonstrated the capability to generate high-resolution, in-flight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) maps using the AESA (active electronically scanned array) radar being produced for the U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft. "The flight tests, on board a company BAC 1-11 test bed aircraft, have proved that the F-22 fighter's mission capabilities ... more Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves On Earth 
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2008Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. The new findings from the study led by Ralph Lorenz, Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ... more Mikros ADEPT Equipment Considered For Baseline In US Navy Cruiser Modernization Program 
Fort Washington PA (SPX) Feb 11, 2008Mikros Systems has announced that its ADEPT Radar Test Set equipment is a candidate for inclusion in the equipment baseline of the United States Navy AEGIS Cruiser and Destroyer Modernization program. The ADEPT system, developed by Mikros under the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research program, has been extensively tested by the Navy on land and at sea, and has proven to be ... more |
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Greenlawn NY (SPX) Feb 06, 2008BAE Systems has been awarded a $28.1 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide radar warning receiver systems for new-production C-130J transport aircraft. BAE Systems' AN/ALR-56M radar warning receiver detects a broad range of incoming radar signals and identifies and characterizes their origin as friend or foe, alerting the pilot when it detects threats to the aircraft. Under the contra ... more Ukraine to offer Europe former Soviet anti-missile radars 
Kiev (AFP) Feb 1, 2008Ukraine is offering western Europe access to its radars, previously a part of the former Soviet missile defence system, the Ukrainian space agency said Friday. "We envisage offering their use to Europe which is trying to create its own security system," the agency's director Yury Alexeyev told Interfax news agency. "Maybe Europe will be interested. We are going to modernise them to keep ... more British plans for wind turbines contested by defence ministry: report 
London (AFP) Feb 4, 2008Britain's defence ministry has raised objections over proposals to ramp up the proportion of the country's energy produced by wind farms, because of concerns over the impact of the turbines on military radar, The Times reported on Monday. A spokesman for Britain's business ministry conceded there had been "issues" regarding potential sites for wind farms, and military radar systems. ... more NASA Scientists Get First Images Of Earth Flyby Asteroid 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have obtained the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24 using high-resolution radar data. The data indicate the asteroid is somewhat asymmetrical in shape, with a diameter roughly 250 meters (800 feet) in size. Asteroid 2007 TU24 will pass within 1.4 lunar distances, or 538,000 kilometers (334,000 miles), of Earth on Jan. 29 at 12 ... more New Radar Satellite Technique Sheds Light On Ocean Current Dynamics 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 29, 2008Ocean surface currents have long been the focus of research due to the role they play in weather, climate and transportation of pollutants, yet essential aspects of these currents remain unknown. By employing a new technique - based on the same principle as police speed-measuring radar guns - to satellite radar data, scientists can now obtain information necessary to understand better the streng ... more |
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El Segundo CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2008The U.S. Navy is retrofitting 135 Super Hornets with Raytheon's APG-79 active electronically scanned array radar. An initial contract worth nearly $55 million authorizes Raytheon to supply 19 AESA systems, spares and maintenance. This ensures Super Hornets manufactured before installation of the APG-79 will benefit from Raytheon's new advanced sensor technology. The APG-79 program is movi ... more US firm delivers missiles to Czech army: defence ministry 
Prague (AFP) Jan 23, 2008US firm Raytheon has delivered 24 air-to-air missiles to the Czech Republic that will be used to equip combat planes, a defence ministry spokesman said Wednesday. The medium-range missiles include a radar-guidance system and carried a price tag of 700 million koruna (26.9 million euros, 39.1 million dollars). The delivery was the result of an agreement between the Czech and US governments in ... more US hopeful of agreement soon with Czechs on radar 
Washington (AFP) Jan 22, 2008The Pentagon said Tuesday it is hopeful about reaching an agreement with the Czech Republic within weeks on stationing a radar on its territory for a US missile defense site in Europe. Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, said talks with the Czech Republic "continue to go very, very well." "We are moving ever closer to an agreement with the Czech Republic. Hopefully, we'll have s ... more First Evidence Of Under-Ice Volcanic Eruption In Antarctica 
London, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2008The first evidence of a volcanic eruption from beneath Antarctica's most rapidly changing ice sheet is reported this week in the journal Nature Geosciences. The volcano on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet erupted 2000 years ago (325BC) and remains active. Using airborne ice-sounding radar, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a layer of ash produced by a 'subglacial' volcano. It ... more Lockheed Martin Uses Digital Beamforming Technology To Redefine Radar State-Of-The-Art 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jan 16, 2008Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated digital beamforming (DBF) capability to locate and track live targets with its Scalable Solid-State S-band Radar (S4R) engineering development model. DBF is the most advanced approach to phased-array antenna pattern control. It provides significant performance advantages over conventional analog beamforming techniques, including improved operations ... more
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