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 Leicester, UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2009 
University of Leicester researchers have taken a step forward in helping to create a defence for earth's technologies - from the constant threat of space weather. They have implemented a "double pulse" radar-operating mode on two radars, which form part of a global network of ground based coherent scatter radars called SuperDARN (Super Dual Auroral Radar Network). These radars allow ... read more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2009The image from the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite shows the area around the Italian town of L'Aquila after the magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck on 6 April 2009. Two images from the satellite were combined for the picture, taken before and after the earthquake, to create an interferogram. The 'coloured rings' around L'Aquila stand out. These rings represent, in colour coding, the ground m ... more
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Guildford, UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2009DMC International Imaging has won a 100,000 euro contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to demonstrate the value of its coordinated multi-satellite optical imagery for tropical forest monitoring in Indonesia. There is an urgent need for the monitoring of global forests with varying spatial resolutions and regularity, and Earth Observation techniques can make a major contribution. Up ... more  
Syracuse NY (SPX) Jun 04, 2009The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a fixed-price contract for nearly $25 million to develop a prototype for the next-generation 3-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR). Lockheed Martin was one of two industry teams placed under contract for the technical development of this new land-based radar. The Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base leads the ... more 
Istanbul, Turkey (SPX) Jun 02, 2009AdaCore has announced that Astrium in the UK dedicated to providing civil and defense space systems and services, has selected the Ada programming language and AdaCore's GNAT Pro development environment for use on the new Sentinel-1 environmental monitoring satellite. Sentinel-1 is the first of five families of satellites being developed for the Global Monitoring for Environment and ... more  
Paris (AFP) June 1, 2009An Air France jet carrying 228 people missing in the Atlantic had crossed a notorious storm patch near the equator where winds from the northern and southern hemispheres clash, meteorologists said Monday. The flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris "was in what we call the intertropical convergence zone" when it sent out an automatic message reporting an electrical fault, Jean-Marie Carriere of ... more |
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El Segundo CA (SPX) May 29, 2009Northrop Grumman has completed initial testing of the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensor. All dedicated mode flights have been completed in the Radar System Level Performance Verification (RSLPV) program, verifying system performance of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) modes. This new sensor is slated for the RQ-4 ... more  
Goleta CA (SPX) May 29, 2009An $84 million contract allows Raytheon to continue production of its ALR-67(V)3 digital radar warning receiver for the U.S. Navy as well as several international customers. The contract for a base year and three option years of production covers systems for the Navy and the air forces of Canada, Switzerland and Australia. The ALR-67(V)3, a state-of-the-art radar warning receiver on Navy ... more  
Manila (AFP) May 27, 2009Japan on Wednesday extended a two billion-peso (42.3 million-dollar) grant to the Philippines to help it improve its defences against deadly typhoons, the Filipino government said. The grant package from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) includes funding for a 1.6 billion-peso project to replace three meteorological alert systems along the country's Pacific Ocean coast. ... more 
Wessling, Germany (SPX) May 27, 2009Dr 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 ... more |
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