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Infoterra To Map And Classify Oil Slicks Over Baffin Bay Greenland
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 23, 2009Infoterra has been appointed to undertake an oil slick mapping and interpretation project over Baffin Bay for Nunaoil, the National Oil Company of Greenland. This project will begin in July and extend through to October, with the acquisition of approximately 480 radar satellite images over the 240,000 km2 area. Infoterra's team of experts will characterise and rank all oil slicks as ... more Czech opposition to US missile system grows: poll 
Prague (AFP) March 19, 2009Czech opposition to the installation of a US anti-missile radar system in their country has grown, as a record 70 percent now reject the project, a poll showed Thursday. Only 25 percent of those polled back the project, according to the survey conducted by the official polling institute CVVM in February. In January, 65 percent opposed the plan, which has angered Russia. "Results sinc ... more Czech PM defers ratification of US missile shield 
Prague (AFP) March 17, 2009Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said his government was deferring a vote on a controversial US missile shield due on Tuesday in parliament amid fears that it could be rejected. "The government has decided to withdraw the two pacts with the United States on setting up a radar station on Czech soil," he said in a brief statement on state television. The treaty was due to be ratified ... more Weather Defender For Emergency Management And First Responders 
Minneapolis (SPX) Mar 17, 2009SWIFT Weather has released Weather Defender software for monitoring, forecasting, and alerting on severe weather threats. The new weather radar software is designed for emergency management professionals and first responders requiring accurate forecasts and storm tracking, including law enforcement, police and fire departments, city and county governments, security personnel, emergency med ... more Radar offer for US missile system still on: Russia 
Baku (AFP) March 12, 2009Russia's offer of a Soviet-era radar station in Azerbaijan as an alternative to US missile defence sites in Eastern Europe remains on the table, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday. "The offer remains on the table. If American and European partners express interest we are ready to return to this question," he said during a visit to the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Moscow p ... more |
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Arlington, Va. (UPI) Mar 3, 2009 "Do you think those U.S. Navy warships are out there on vacation?" one Saudi leader was said to have asked Iranian ruler Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a recent crisis. Aircraft carriers and surface ships do a lot for U.S. diplomacy just by showing up. But there's a complication on the horizon. Cruise missile attack is a growing risk. The U.S. Navy had a good plan to offset that, but it's drifting ... more Upgraded COBRA DANE Radar Transferred To USAF 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2009The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has announced the transfer of the COBRA DANE radar located at Shemya, Alaska, from MDA to the U.S. Air Force. The upgraded COBRA DANE became available for ballistic missile defense operations in 2004, and is the first missile defense capability MDA has transferred to the Air Force. For decades COBRA DANE has supported intelligence data collection on ... more NKorea testing radar ahead of planned launch 
Seoul (AFP) Feb 27, 2009North Korea is testing radar and monitoring equipment as it presses ahead with a planned missile launch, reports here said Friday, as Washington unveiled an initiative to persuade it to change course. The communist state has apparently begun testing radar and other equipment at its launch site of Musudan-ri in the northeast, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper and Yonhap news agency reported ... more The Dunes Of Titan 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 27, 2009Titan's vast dune fields, which may act like weather vanes to determine general wind direction on Saturn's biggest moon, have been mapped by scientists who compiled four years of radar data collected by the Cassini spacecraft. Titan's rippled dunes are generally oriented east-west. Surprisingly, their orientation and characteristics indicate that near the surface, Titan's winds blow toward ... more GE Selected For AV-8B Harrier Technology 
Grand Rapids MI (SPX) Feb 26, 2009GE Aviation has been awarded a development contract from the U.S. Navy for AV-8B aircraft radar display computers. The contract is valued at more than $16 million, with completion in 2011 at which time the follow-on production contract is anticipated. "GE is applying new technology to the AV-8B's radar display computer, enabling the addition and modification of software functionality for ... more |
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Waddington, UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2009Raytheon has delivered the fifth and final Sentinel R Mk 1 aircraft to U.K. Royal Air Force at RAF Waddington. With this hand over, Raytheon's U.K.-based subsidiary Raytheon Systems Limited has now completed delivery of all Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) equipment to the U.K. Ministry of Defence. With the five Sentinel aircraft, Raytheon delivered six tactical ground station units, two ... more White Sands Testing New Laser Weapon System 
White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Feb 06, 2009White Sands Missile Range is testing a new weapon system known as the Laser Centurion Demonstrator. The system, developed by Raytheon, combines proven radar and threat-detection technology with the latest in laser weapons. This demonstration model is intended to prove the capabilities and effectiveness of the new laser weapon as part of the Laser Area Defense Systems program, officials ... more UEWR In Greenland Achieves Satellite Tracking In Record Time 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009Raytheon's Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) at Thule Air Base, Greenland, has achieved a significant milestone on its path toward operational status, successfully tracking its first satellite in an operational space surveillance mission configuration. "It's impressive that this event was accomplished after only 31 hours of test time that sets a new record for bringing a UEWR system to ... more The Multi Layered Partial Success ABM Solution Part Six 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 The U.S. Missile Defense Agency does not expect any particular layer or weapon system to function perfectly, but if each one can achieve some reasonable degree of success, then the number of warheads that actually reach targets will be very small. The MDA's budget for all its activities currently totals about 1 percent of annual defense spending. The Sea-Based X-Band Radar is a mobile ... more EADS favoured to win Saudi contract: report 
Paris (AFP) Feb 4, 2009European aerospace group EADS is favoured to win a contract worth 1.0-1.5 billion euros to provide Saudi Arabia with radar system to monitor national borders, the financial newspaper Les Echos reported on Wednesday. "The Kingdon's interior ministry is reportedly now negotiating with the European group alone," the paper said, without citing its sources. The contract would be worth between ... more
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