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Raytheon's JLENS Conducts Successful Design Reviews
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Nov 24, 2008Raytheon's JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System) has successfully conducted critical design readiness reviews (CDRR) on its final two prime items, the surveillance radar (SuR) and the communications and processing group (CPG). Both are key milestones in the U.S. Army program that will provide a critical cruise missile defense capability for our ... more US to activate anti-missile radar in Israel next month 
Jerusalem (AFP) Nov 22, 2008A radar system, which the United States agreed in July to deploy in Israel to counter a perceived missile threat from Iran, is to go operational in mid-December, army radio reported on Saturday. The US military technicians who will operate the system are currently carrying out the final tests, the radio said. The radar system, which has a range of more than 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) ... more NASA Spacecraft Detects Buried Glaciers On Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2008NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet. Scientists analyzed data from the spacecraft's ground-penetrating radar and report in the Nov. 21 issue of the journal Science that buried glaciers extend for dozens of miles from the edges ... more Evidence of vast frozen water reserves on Mars: scientists 
Washington (AFP) Nov 20, 2008NASA scientists have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars, away from its polar caps, in the latest sign that life might be sustainable on the Red planet. Ground-penetrating radar used by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals numerous huge glaciers up to one half-mile thick buried beneath layers of rock and debris. Researchers said one glacier is three time ... more CSA Announces Design Contract With MDA For RADARSAT Constellation 
Longueuil, Canada (SPX) Nov 18, 2008The Canadian Space Agency has announced that MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has been awarded a 16-month contract valued at $40 million to begin the design of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM). The RADARSAT Constellation is the evolution of the RADARSAT Program and will ensure the continued use by government scientific and commercial clients of data produced by Canada's ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Oct 29, 2008The thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic declined by as much as 19% last winter compared to the previous five winters, according to data from ESA's Envisat satellite. Using Envisat radar altimeter data, scientists from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL) measured sea ice thickness over the Arctic from 2002 to 2008 and found that it ... more Lynx Radar Capabilities Demonstrated During Patrol Operations 
San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2008General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced that its Lynx Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensor successfully identified suspected areas of illegal crossing activity along the U.S. southwest border during recent border patrol operations conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) out of Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The Lynx SAR is now performing day-to-day border search operations ... more BAE, GD Team On Navy System To Defeat Sophisticated Maritime Threat 
Hudson NH (SPX) Oct 28, 2008BAE Systems has teamed with General Dynamics to compete for the U.S. Navy's upcoming Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 2 upgrade effort. The next-generation electronic warfare system, called Sea Lightning, is designed to defeat increasingly sophisticated maritime threats by intercepting and classifying threat radars, particularly those on anti-ship cruise missiles ... more 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 |
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Syracuse NY (SPX) Oct 03, 2008To accelerate the fielding of the new Enhanced AN/TPQ-36 Counterfire Target Acquisition radar, the U.S. Army has exercised $152 million in contract options for 12 additional systems from Lockheed Martin. The EQ-36 radars will detect, classify, track and determine the location of enemy indirect fire such as mortars, artillery and rockets in either 90-degree or 360-degree modes. These ... more US operates anti-missile radar in Israel: report
Jerusalem (AFP) Sept 28, 2008The United States has recently deployed an anti-missile radar in Israel that is mainly to warn of incoming Iranian ballistic missiles, Israeli state radio reported Sunday. The radar with a range of more than 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) is sited in the south of the country, the radio added. It is operated by a permanent 120-strong US army staff. Questioned by AFP, a defence ministr ... more Russian agents seek to influence Czechs on US radar: intel report 
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
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