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Pratt And Whitney Rocketdyne Boosts Disaster Management Satellite
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 23, 2008Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne will help Italy further its national defense and disaster prevention by boosting a radar satellite into space on Oct. 24. COSMO-SkyMed 3, a satellite with both civilian and military applications, will be onboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket powered by a Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne RS-27A engine. The rocket, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base ... more ISRO Eyes Manned Moon Mission By 2015 
Sriharikota, India (PTI) Oct 23, 2008Keeping the more expensive manned lunar missions in its radar, the country's top space agency is planning to send two Indians to the Moon by 2015 in a purely indigenous effort. And Indian Space Research Organisation's(ISRO) ambitious plans does not end there for it has just started technical capability as well as mission planning for a Mars mission saying the red planet was the "next ... more NASA Returns To The Moon With Instruments On Indian Spacecraft 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2008Two NASA instruments to map the lunar surface will launch on India's maiden moon voyage. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper will assess mineral resources, and the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar, or Mini-SAR, will map the polar regions and look for ice deposits. The Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO, is scheduled to launch its robotic Chandrayaan-1 on Oct. 22 from Sriharikota, India. ... more ESA Leads The Way To Map Boreal Forest 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 22, 2008How best to map 'boreal' or northern forest with spaceborne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. By answering this question, the campaign addresses one of the key objectives of the candidate Earth Explorer BIOMASS mission. BIOMASS is one of six candidate Earth Explorer missions that has just completed assessment study and will be presented to the ... more India sends warship to pirate-infested Gulf of Aden 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 17, 2008India is deploying one of its latest warships to the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia to protect its merchant vessels, officials said Friday. A "stealth frigate is being diverted to these waters," Indian navy spokesman Nirad Sinha said. The Russian-designed vessel can evade radar and is armed with guided missiles and cannons, naval officials said. The move comes afte ... more |
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Prague (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Russian agents are working to build opposition among the Czech public to the deployment of a US missile defence radar in the ex-Soviet bloc nation, a Czech intelligence report said Thursday. The annual report from the Czech Security and Intelligence Service (BIS) spoke of "active measures linked to the plan to install elements of American anti-missile defence" in Czech territory. ... more Czechs, US sign ABM Deal 
London (AFP) Sept 19, 2008US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and his Czech counterpart signed an agreement Friday clearing the way for stationing US forces to operate a missile defence radar in the Czech Republic. The status of forces agreement provides the legal basis for the US presence in the Czech Republic, and marks the last piece of a years long negotiation over the radar, part of a European leg of the US ... more Prague, Washington to sign missile cooperation deal Friday
Prague (AFP) Sept 17, 2008A Czech-US agreement on deploying US soldiers at an anti-missile radar will be signed on Friday in London, an official from the Czech ministry of defence told AFP. "Czech Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova and US Defense Secretary Robert Gates will sign the SOFA agreement in London Friday as well as a declaration of strategic cooperation," ministry spokesman Andrej Cirtek said. ... more Quantum3D Awarded Subcontract by SAIC For Advanced Apps 
San Jose CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2008Quantum3D has announced that it will serve as a subcontractor to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) on the STAP Boy contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). As the prime contractor, SAIC will leverage Quantum3D's new LibertyVPX High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) system for an advanced deployed radar, Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) ... more Boeing Awarded Contract For Radar Upgrade On Saudi AWACS Fleet 
Seattle WA (SPX) Sep 17, 2008Boeing has been awarded a contract for the initial phase of upgrading the radar on Saudi Arabia's fleet of five E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. The Foreign Military Sale, not to exceed $42 million, was contracted through the Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. This first phase includes a study to determine which parts are obsolete and no ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Aug 20, 2008EADS Defence and Security provides Lockheed Martin with its proven TRS-3D naval radar in order to enhance situational awareness, and thus the security in littoral waters, for the U.S. Coast Guard's "Deepwater" programme. As reported by EADS Defence and Security (DS) , the company has received a follow-on order from Lockheed Martin's Maritime Systems and Sensors business, valued at ... more MIT's Lincoln Lab Upgrades Sputnik-Era Antenna 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2008A mammoth MIT antenna installed in 1957 as the first radar system to conduct space surveillance (it observed the Sputnik satellite) is poised for many more years of key observations thanks to a recently completed renovation. Lincoln Laboratory's Millstone Hill Radar (MHR) antenna is one of the world's principal tools for maintaining the Deep Space Catalog--the listing of the more than 3000 ... more JSTARS Meets AWACS 
Kadena AB, Japan (AFPN) Aug 13, 2008The 16th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control Squadron from Robins Air Force Base, Ga., has deployed to Kadena Air Base for 30 days to train with the 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron and participate in an operational readiness exercise on the Korean Peninsula. The unit is flying its E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft alongside the E-3 Airborne Warning and ... more Royal Navy New Carriers To Get Latest Radar 
London, UK (SPX) Aug 07, 2008The Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers will be equipped with a new powerful UK-designed and manufactured radar, under a GBP100M contract with BAE Systems. With its ability to track a target the size of a snooker ball over 20 km away, the new more powerful Artisan radar will provide an improved 3D maritime Medium Range Radar (MRR) capability. The radar system will be developed and ... more Improvements In Thermal Management Of Future Electronics 
Linthicum MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2008Northrop Grumman has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate an ultra high capacity hybrid thermal ground plane needed to overcome heat-related challenges in semiconductors employed in electronic systems. High thermal temperatures are a key barrier in the development of next-generation military electronics, such as high-power radars ... more
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