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Lockheed Martin SBIRS Team Delivers Major Subsystems For Second GEO Satellite
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Dec 29, 2008The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the U.S. Air Force's Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has achieved major milestones on the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft with the completion and delivery of the remaining major spacecraft bus subsystems. The GEO-2 spacecraft core structure and propulsion subsystem was recently completed and the high-performance communications subs ... more ThalesRaytheonSystems To Upgrade US Army Firefinder Radar 
Fullerton CA (SPX) Dec 29, 2008ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a $217 million U.S. Army firm-fixed-price contract to provide production modification kits and power amplifier modules as part of the Reliability Maintainability Improvement program for the AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder weapon locating radar. This contract follows the April 2008 initial production award. Combined, the AN/TPQ-37 RMI production contracts total m ... more European Industry Prepares Leading-Edge Semiconductor For Space 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 18, 2008ESA is investing significant levels of funding in order to establish a European supply chain for fabrication of space-worthy telecommunications and radar devices made from a high performance semiconductor. The supply chain will bring together leading research institutes and industrial manufacturers working together across Europe. Once completed, the supply chain will eventually allow ... more E-8C's New Engine Program Takes Off 
Hanscom AFB MA (AFNS) Dec 10, 2008America's eye in the sky, the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or Joint STARS, will soon be faster, quieter, more efficient and more operationally effective with a major engine upgrade effort now under way here. Getting new engines on E-8C test aircraft is a major milestone for the Air Force, said Col. Jim Lovell, the 751st Electronic Systems Group commander. ... more Seafood Industry To Benefit From Oceansat-2 
Kolkata, India (RIA Novosti) Dec 08, 2008The seafood industry will get a boost with ISRO's indigenously-built Oceansat-2 satellite - to be launched in 2009 - which will help identify potential fishing zones and forecast weather conditions more accurately. "Oceansat-2 satellite will have an ocean colour monitor, which will help identify potential fishing zones (PFZs) forecast. It will also carry radar scatterometer, which will ... more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2008Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement, the Hon. Greg Combet MP, has announced that the ANZAC Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) Project has successfully demonstrated CEA Technologies' CEAFAR active phased array multi-function radar in a ship at sea. The ASMD project involves a comprehensive upgrade of the ANZAC Frigates including the addition of new phased array radar technology ... more Czech Political Machinations Could Sink ABM Deal Yet 
Washington (UPI) Nov 25, 2008 The rollercoaster saga of the proposed U.S. ballistic missile defense bases in Central Europe took another downward dip on Friday: The powerful speaker of the Czech Parliament said he was now sure the crucial radar base to be located in his country would never be built. "I am certain that the radar will not be deployed," Miloslav Vlcek, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and member of ... more 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 |
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Prague (AFP) Oct 29, 2008The Czech government Wednesday called for delaying a final vote on two agreements with Washington to deploy part of a missile shield system on Czech soil until a new US president takes office. The lower house of the Czech parliament Wednesday began a debate on the agreements to install a radar facility in the Czech Republic as part of a US missile defence system, which is strongly opposed by ... more Arctic Sea Ice Thinning At Record Rate 
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
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