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 Wessling, Germany (SPX) May 27, 2009 
Dr Edith Maurer and Alessandro Codazzi are young, at ease and laugh a lot. They do a job which carries a great deal of responsibility: as a team, the two control the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite from the German Space Operations Centre (GSOC) located at the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen. No signal leaves the control room an ... read more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2009NASA's return to the Moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. The agency has outlined the upcoming missions of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS. The spacecraft will launch together June 17 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Cana ... more
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El Segundo CA (SPX) May 27, 2009Raytheon has been awarded a $54 million U.S. Navy contract to retrofit Super Hornet block II aircraft with APG-79 active electronically scanned array radars. The award by the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., calls for APG-79 AESA radars to be retrofitted into lots 26 to 29 of the F/A-18E/F aircraft. The units will replace the APG-73 radars currently installed in the ... more 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) May 26, 2009 When the U.S. Department of Defense "rebalanced" its military aircraft programs on April 6, they forgot about buying new fighters to protect the United States. Remember the scare in April when the backup Air Force One made low circles over New York City for White House photographers? It looked for a moment like an F-16 was chasing the jumbo jetliner, bringing back chilling memories of ... more  
Glasgow, Scotland (SPX) May 27, 2009Scottish Power's Chairman Ignacio Galan was joined by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond MSP to celebrate the completion of ScottishPower Renewables' Whitelee Windfarm, Europe's largest onshore wind power project. The initial 140 turbines situated across the 55 km squared site will be capable of producing up to 322MW of electricity - enough to power over 180,000 homes and the ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) May 25, 2009India on Monday took delivery of its first Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane, as part of a deal with Israel worth more than one billion dollars, officials said. The delivery is seen as part of India's quest for air dominance over arch rival Pakistan as well as a milestone in growing military ties with Israel. "India is one of the few countries to have inducted the AWACS ... more |
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Louisville KY (SPX) May 21, 2009Raytheon is being awarded a $259.9 million U.S. Navy contract to overhaul and upgrade 57 Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems and to provide ancillary equipment, spares, as well as additional technical support. The agreement calls for 40 sea-based Phalanx systems and 17 Centurion Land-Based Phalanx Weapon Systems. "The capability of our world-class Ku-band radar coupled with Phalanx's the ... more 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 20, 2009The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Northrop Grumman phase 1 of the $37-million Terahertz (THz) Electronics contract. Work on the contract will support military and space satellites with the development of active receivers and transmitters operating at 670 gigahertz that ensure reliable, high-resolution images, and other applications. "This contract win shows ... more 
New York (AFP) May 19, 2009A planned US anti-missile system, hotly opposed by Russia, to defend Europe against the threat of missile attack from Iran would not work, a new study by a US-based think tank said Tuesday. The study by the New York-based EastWest Institute found the proposed system "will not provide dependable protection against an Iranian threat if and when it emerges." The study titled "Iran's Nuclear ... more 
Seoul (AFP) May 19, 2009South Korea said Tuesday three foreign firms were bidding for an early warning project to detect North Korean ballistic missiles. Elta Group of Israel, a Netherlands-based unit of France's Thales Group and Raytheon of the United States submitted bids by the May 18 deadline, the Defence Acquisition Programme Administration said in a statement. The winner would be announced by the end of ... more |
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