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Russian Space Agency Backs US Asteroid Control Plan
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 20, 2008Russia's Federal Space Agency has endorsed a proposal by the U.S. House of Representatives that a Russian radar station be used to detect dangerous asteroids, Roscosmos head said on Thursday. "I generally approve and support the U.S. initiative," Anatoly Perminov said in a telephone interview with RIA Novosti. "As for the asteroid danger, it really exists, and needs to be dealt with ... more Outside View: BMD base woes -- Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 19, 2008 U.S. President George W. Bush's missile defenses are dying with his presidency, but they might not rest in peace. The Czech government is on the verge of a crisis. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said his Cabinet might collapse in the fall. He admitted the Cabinet lost a firm majority in Parliament over the possible deployment of a high-frequency radar of the U.S. third positioning ... more Lockheed Martin's Littoral Combat Ship Combat Management System Readies For Sea 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Lockheed Martin has successfully integrated key shipboard combat system components aboard the U.S. Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship, PCU Freedom, with COMBATSS-21, the ship's core combat management system. Key components integrated with COMBATSS-21 include the radar, gun weapon system, missile launcher, decoy launcher, and electronic warfare system. The successful integration and ... more Jason-1 Will Make It's 30,000th Orbit 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2008The Jason-1 spacecraft will make its 30,000th science orbit this week. Revolution number 30,000 will begin at 10:27 UTC (3:27 a.m. PDT) on June 14th, 2008 and will be completed at 12:19 UTC (5:19 a.m. PDT). From its vantage point 1,336 kilometers (830 miles) above Earth, Jason-1 uses its radar altimeter to precisely measure the topography of the ocean surface. Jason-1 was launched December ... more China improving air drop ability after quake setbacks: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2008The Chinese military has begun drills to improve its ability to parachute into disaster areas after its troops struggled during last month's earthquake, state media reported. The training, the first of its kind in China, began Wednesday and involved eight large aircraft delivering soldiers, vehicles, radar and other equipment, the Xinhua news agency said. The People's Liberation Army has ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2008Researchers have used Earth-based radar to examine ejecta material from the massive impact that formed the moon's Orientale impact basin. Orientale basin is located at the very edge of the moon's visible face. Previously, this crater was difficult to study because it is only partially visible to telescopes on Earth. Newly developed techniques now have been used to make high-resolution radar obse ... more Keeping The Military Fully Networked And Online 
Bethpage NY (SPX) Jun 03, 2008Northrop Grumman has conducted a study for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, which demonstrates airborne electronic jammer aircraft are more effective and efficient when networked and enhanced by decision aids. Airborne electronic attack, or "jamming," aircraft can blind, disrupt or otherwise affect enemy radars, communications, comput ... more Study finds best times for radio signals 
Leicester, England (UPI) May 21, 2008 British engineers say they've found a specific window exists when mobile radio signals are "super strength," allowing them to be clearer and travel farther. University of Leicester researchers studied the signal strength of radio waves traveling over the sea and identified late afternoons and early evenings in spring and summer as a time when enhanced signals occur. The research ... more The Radar SHARAD Completes The Mars Stratigraphy 
Rome, Italy (SPX) May 26, 2008The radar sounder SHARAD of the NASA mission Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images of the Mars North Pole stratigraphy. This is the beginning of the article "Mars North Polar Deposits: Stratigraphy, Age and Geodynamical Response", published Friday on Science and prepared by a team of Italian and USA scientists, among which the radar scientific responsible, Dr. Roberto Seu, a scie ... more Russian ABM Plans Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) May 21, 2008 Russia's A-135 Anti-Ballistic Missile system, capable of coping with intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles, was developed and commissioned in 1995 and 1996, respectively. The system hinged on the Don-2N multi-role radar and a command computer inside a truncated tetrahedral pyramid. Silo-based missile interceptors were deploy ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) May 09, 2008Boeing has dedicated a new test and evaluation facility in Huntington Beach, Calif., that provides the technology and capability to support both current and future radar-based weapon systems. The Dynamic Advanced Radar Test (DART) facility represents a $10 million investment for the company. "DART is a one-stop, full-service facility to support design, development and qualification testin ... more No permanent foreign inspectors in US-Czech radar talks: minister 
Prague (AFP) May 11, 2008Neither the Czech Republic nor the United States have made provisions for permanent Russian inspectors at their joint anti-missile radar project, a junior government minister said Sunday. Czech deputy defence minister Martin Bartak told Czech public television that while an agreement between Prague and Washington mentions inspections, is says nothing about a permanent presence of inspectors ... more A Glorious Saturn Steps Into The Spotlight In New York City 
New York NY (SPX) May 06, 2008In the four years since NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn and began snapping pictures, Cassini's cameras have sent nearly 140,000 images back to researchers on Earth. The data and images -- as well as data from infrared, radar and ultraviolet detectors on the orbiter and images from the Huygens probe on the surface of the planet's moon Titan -- have given researchers ... more NATO secretary supports US missile shield 
Prague (AFP) May 5, 2008NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Monday the alliance supports the installation of an American radar base in the Czech Republic as well as a missile shield for its allies. "We need to be pro-active as NATO on why we need a missile defence and this is why I'm in Prague today," Scheffer said at a missile defence conference. The Czech government is preparing to sign an ... more Weather Underground Launches Best Weather Map Available On The Internet 
San Francisco CA (SPX) May 06, 2008Weather Underground has announced the availability of its new interactive weather map. Sharing its namesake with the website, the WunderMap is an interactive visual display of weather information that is plotted and overlaid on a map interface. Users can choose from a variety of weather layers, including animated radar, current conditions, severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings, live web ... more
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