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Cobra's 2009 Radar Detectors
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Jan 23, 2009Cobra Electronics announces the launch of its new high performance radar line providing advances in photo enforcement detection, as well as offering enhanced detection capabilities and user friendliness. Cobra's 2009 series offers 12 SKUs, including six units compatible with Cobra's new AURA Camera and Driving Hazard Database. AURA, which stands for Advanced Universal Road Alert, warns ... more French Digital Maps Added To NEXTMap Europe Countrywide Mapping Database 
Denver CO (SPX) Jan 22, 2009Intermap Technologies has announced that its NEXTMap Europe program reached another significant milestone in December by making elevation data for the entire country of France commercially available. For the first time, uniformly accurate 3D digital elevation models and high-resolution orthorectified radar images are available for the largest country (551,695 square kilometers) in the European U ... more Outside View: BMD priorities -- Part 5 
Washington (UPI) Jan 21, 2009 Newly inaugurated U.S. President Barack Obama has confirmed the wisdom of the allied approach to missile defense. The existing missile defense program involves allied participation in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and this should continue. Key among the various cooperative efforts are the agreements with the Czech Republic and Poland, both NATO allies, to field a missile defense radar and ... more Mars polar water is pure: study 
Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2009A large ice cap found at Mars' northern pole is "of a very high degree of purity," according to an international study reported on Tuesday by French researchers. Radar data sent back by the US Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) point to 95 percent purity in this deposit, France's National Institute of Sciences of the Universe (Insu) said in a press release. The Martian polar regions are b ... more Satellite Antenna Enables Discovery Of Buried Glaciers On Mars 
Carpinteria CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2009Antenna technology designed and built by Northrop Grumman made it possible for a radar sounder instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to detect huge glaciers on the Red Planet covered by a layer of dust and rocks. The antenna was developed by Astro Aerospace, a business unit of Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector, for the Italian Space Agency's SHAllow RADar ... more |
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Sunnyvale, CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2009Lockheed Martin reports that the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite has entered a major test phase with the latest version of flight software designed to provide highly reliable spacecraft command and control operations. The U.S. Air Force SBIRS program is designed to provide early warning of missile launches, and simultaneously support other m ... more Moscow Says Offer To On Joint Radar Use Still Stands 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 30, 2008Russia's offer to the U.S. on joint use of the Gabala radar station it leases from Azerbaijan is still on the table, a first Russian deputy foreign minister said on Monday. "Our proposal remains on the table. The new U.S. administration will encounter serious problems with regard to the implementation of its third missile site plan in Europe. We are not exerting any pressure on the U.S. ad ... more 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 |
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Brasilia (AFP) Dec 2, 2008Brazilian authorities on Tuesday gave approval for the sale of 100 missiles to Pakistan which can be used in air-to-surface attacks on radar tracking instalations, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said. The MAR-1 medium-range missiles made by the Brazilian firm Mectron are tactical anti-radiation weapons whose existence was kept under wraps for many years, according to Jane's Information Group. ... more Anti-Ship Missile Defence Project Achieves Milestone 
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
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